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Because the project is owned by a non-profit, CCBA, dedicated to 100% affordable. Go talk to them (if you speak Cantonese or Mandarin). Not dissing your proposal, just pointing out facts.

Actually the city has a really hard time building 100% affordable housing, which this is (plus some badly needed ground floor neighborhood retail). Please point to the plentiful replacement funding sources available to rebuild this housing in a larger format, remaining as 100% affordable?

The 252-262 Harrison Landscaper is the step-down accommodation to the row house neighborhood across the street. It could probably be higher, though. It is also part of the Tai Tung Village complex.

Also the surrounding communities of Everett, Revere, Lynn, East Boston are homes to large immigrant populations largely from Latin America, where soccer is the dominant professional sport.

What would you do instead of the replacement? Cut off automobile and truck access to the Cape?

MBTA/MassDOT does not have the community equity issue in their policy portfolio for RI communities. But they do have skin in the game for cross-state-line automobile traffic, and rail service to help reduce SOV trips. RI might be more cooperative than NH in a double pronged approach to both...

Liberty Mutual, one of your buildings got away. It was last seen along Boylston Street.

Northern Strand Extension official groundbreaking yesterday in Lynn.

For the downtown area showing low income (northeast edge of the Common), the dominant residential component there is Suffolk University dorms. The other area on the south edge of downtown is mostly income restricted housing.

Renderings back at Post 47 seem to show a number of green spaces, play grounds, etc. https://archboston.com/community/threads/bunker-hill-housing-redevelopment-charlestown.6194/post-457141

So it does not look like the MBTA is implementing a default "pass" equivalent cap on tap-to-ride payments (as in the MTA OMNY system).

JetBlue's on-time record certainly makes me think twice about using them when I have an option. I have been burned too many times with delays that flip travel to the next day.

Also Salem as support for off-shore wind.

Is Everett offering better tax breaks to developers than Revere or Boston?

Definitely South End. Interesting that this is actually a third order conversion, as the building is originally a manufacturing facility, converted to offices.

It depends a lot on how they were constructed. Many concrete high rises from that period buried the utilities in hard to access encased raceways -- with very tight dimensions. Systems upgrades become nearly impossible. The evaluation is often that a tear-down is the most cost effective...

Note on the ground floor transportation implementation -- this hotel has way too small of a curb cut. It may be right next to Back Bay Station, but that is NOT how the clientele arrive. Ubers, limos, taxis block Stuart Street virtually every evening of the week.

MassDOT: if it was good enough for Robert Moses, it's good enough for our plans too. Bulldoze it!

Vertical Lift Draws are generally considered cheaper to design and construct. I am not sure of the maintenance aspects (all draws have a lot of maintenance concerns). Vertical Life Draws are particularly preferred for rail draw bridges, because it is easier to design for the heavy load of rail...

According to a Goldman Sachs analysis, Office Building values need to drop another 50% for this to make sense in most cases. Office to multi-family residential conversions are quite expensive, often nearly on par with new residential construction per sq. ft. Older, Class B buildings with lots...