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The pedestrian viewing platform on that most recent render is on the wrong side. A fully built-out Ft. Point Channel will be more visually interesting than the airport across the harbor.

Still waiting to hear about the BPDA, but in the meantime this is a pretty cool piece of news: Mayor Wu Announces Members of Steering Committee to Advise on Reforms to Article 80 Development Review Process | Boston.gov

Not Boston, but topical: 2 NYC Mayoral Candidates Wildly Underestimate Housing Prices (businessinsider.com)

More interesting than people per household to me is cars per household. Anyone have that data for 1950 and 2023?

It was fine at 612,456. That 612,457th person really made it all come crashing down.

Just got home from a trip to Iceland, where I was really impressed by the capital city of Reykjavik. The whole country has only 376,000 people, and the capital region only has 233,000. Still, the city was bustling with people. It had a good mix of stores and restaurants, pedestrianized streets...

Holy cow that’s a narrow bike path.

Bumping this because there’s no way that the only way to dissolve the BRA is to have active members vote in favor of dissolving it. No one’s going to vote in favor of eliminating their own job. There has to be some other way of going about it.

I'm a bit confused about how the BRA relates (if at all) to re-zoning the city. Like NIMBYs get most of their power from the ZBA, and the ZBA in turn gets its power from the city's restrictive zoning laws. When I've heard Wu speak about re-zoning the city (presumably to remove power from the ZBA...

If the mayor can’t get rid of them, who can? Serious question.

Scenes from an alley: A table in a coffee shop:

That’s a good point. Places I’m familiar with that have successful canals or small-river parks (Utrecht and Seoul are good examples) are all much further inland than the proposed canal in the OP. This location is definitely a different beast than the ones shown with pictures above and will have...

I haven’t been a huge fan of the stripes and their color scheme, but these two photos might’ve just changed my mind!

And I’m tired of saying that I’m just relaying (my understanding of) the “main takeaways” from that article. It’s fine if you disagree, just know (a) that it’s not my own opinion that I conjured out of thin air and (b) I’m pretty sure the thing was peer reviewed, though I didn’t look too hard.

We aren’t talking about what increases prices, at least if we’re continuing to discuss the article that was shared earlier. It was about what causes the price of housing to decrease. It said that new, market rate housing would decrease the overall cost if people trade-up from one older unit to a...

So, I actually don’t know what this is referring to.

I think you’re right about foreign families, they probably would’ve bought elsewhere in Back Bay/Downtown. I don’t think you’re correct about investors. From what I’ve heard/understood (my girlfriend’s cousin is a lawyer for a real estate investment firm) people snatch up the units because they...

This should probably be moved to the "Housing" thread, but one of the assumptions made by the author of that article is "I find that migrants to new central city multifamily buildings come from neighborhoods with slightly lower incomes, and migrants into these neighborhoods come from areas with...

It stinks that housing is such a sore subject in this city/region that we can’t just all be excited about what sounds to me like a fantastic retail addition to Boylston Street. I still want to see an arcade, like a Dave and Busters or a Rec Room, or maybe a roller rink built somewhere in the...

Last I checked, the Lord&Taylor building isn’t a neighborhood. And Somerville has since used eminent domain with much better results, no?