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    🔷 Open Thread

    I miss you guys!
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    You all know more than I do but wanted to mention it here in case you hadn't heard so you can do more research. Provincetown voters chose to take away control of the Old Colony railway from the select board to the Open Land Trust, effectively canceling any hopes of expanding the Cape Cod Rail...
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    WBZ-TV/CBS Studio Development Project | 1170-2000 Soldiers Field Road | Allston

    83 Leo Property Owner LLC closed on its purchase of the studio/office building at 83 Leo M. Birmingham Parkway in Boston for $11,120,000 today. Published reports say the new owner will spend another $7 million when zoning approvals are granted or Audacy vacates the property. "Audacy will enter...
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    The Parker Boston (nee LaGrange Tower) | 47-55 LaGrange St. | Downtown

    Something seems off on this building yet I can't figure out if it's a legit feeling or that maybe I'm just looking to start gossip. This was originally going to be apartments but became condos. When proposed, there was concern by Ray Flynn's son that it was going to be "executive suites", which...
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    🔷 Open Thread

    No.
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    🔷 Open Thread

    It might be gone. I thought the building at Berkeley and Columbus. Or the one in the North End at Atlantic and Commercial. Or is it easier.
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    🔷 Open Thread

    I know we can figure this out. Question on Dirty Old Boston. This is Amelia Earhart in Boston circa 1928. What building is in the background.
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    70 Federal Street sells - 7-story Brutalist building

    70 Federal Street sold August 23rd for $41 million. It last sold in 2016 to Nuveen / TIAA for $38 million, which is a paper profit but after an investment of up to $5 million by Nuveen, perhaps not. Others probably know the history better than I but from what I found online, it was designed by...
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    Seaport Transportation

    I don't know what's going on here. Anyone? This is unrelated to the plan to move the truck route along the same street?
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    Seaport Transportation

    Shaughnessy and Ahern Company sold several parcels in South Boston to Oliver Street Capital. This appears to be the block bordered by Cypher St, D St, W 1st St, and C St.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    ::sigh:: Now I see it, too. I'm very confused. And, I haven't heard back from CCRTA customer service. But, yeah, it looks as though it's live and updating. <strike>Except the "Beaches" line doesn't seem to be updating, which is probably the one most-used in town lol.</strike> ::sigh::
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Halp! We don't have real-time bus trackers here on Cape Cod (CCRTA - https://capecodrta.org/) but I can't think of any reason why it *can't be built easily. I'm sure they've looked into it (I hope so?) but can't seem to find anything on it. Does anyone know if there's been work done on it? If...
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    🔷 Open Thread

    Church Park in the Fenway at 221 Massachusetts Avenue was sold on Monday for $439 million. It's a 508-unit apartment complex built in the cement Brutalist fashion. This is the first time this property has ever sold since being built in 1973. I was/am under the impression that the First Church...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    The deed I posted was only one piece of the puzzle so I apologize. It wasn't clear that the deal had been consummated since there was no deed with actual dollars filed yesterday or today. The "order of taking" apparently does the same thing. It's not clear how anyone knows how much was actually...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Not sure why this was a transfer from the Food Market to .. the BRA? Is this a (non)- tax write-off? LMFAO
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    I was pumping iron while you were pumping irony. Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Anyway, a great way to start your new job with the MBTA - $155 million more in debt!
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    General Infrastructure

    Thank you! I hope to hear from my good friend Van Houten (I forget) about this, too. It's interesting to think what would have happened if they never connected I-93 to the Central Artery. Like an alternate reality like if the Nazis had won WWII. I am old enough to remember the "Merge" of...
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    MBTA 2021 - The year the MBTA stop sucking?

    Lol thanks for responding. I've lived long enough to have enjoyed the T through the bad and the bad. I do wish I had taken the Green Line to Union Station this past week to enjoy the new route but I forgot all about it! It's existence is a good reminder though that, through the bad and the bad...
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    General Infrastructure

    Can't find a thread, sorry. I-93 into Boston didn't exist for a long time, right? I don't remember when it was connected to the Central Artery - 1950, 1960? How did people from the north get into the city? The Tobin was completed in 1948 so people from the north-east came in from there and from...

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