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What they are proposing makes sense to me as well. Sometimes the best way to rescue an unwieldy project is to break it into smaller parts. If this early work can help bring neighborhoods together, why should residents have to wait?

One of the claims in the chapter linked above is that cities need older buildings to create business diversity. There are obviously businesses that cannot afford to lease space in new construction and can only survive in older buildings where the rent is much cheaper. What is the feeling here...

It's an excellent example of the Mid-20th Century American Seedy style of urban architecture. Maybe slap a plaque on it somewhere and protect it for future generations. That's obviously a tongue in cheek suggestion, but look how hospital-hygienic its new neighbor is going to look in...

How do they handle it if they hit ledge while driving that steel into the earth? I've watched well driving companies pound their way through, but that has a much smaller diameter than what's required here.

I'm wondering why this location was chosen for battery storage. There's no need for proximity to the harbor. Is this really the highest and best use for this property?

If this is really about 150 trees, the solution would seem to be for the city to plant 150 trees elsewhere. The Lorax can help choose the location.

I am liking the retro style. Doors, windows, paint scheme, it's all understated and inviting.

I don't think there's much question that funds for rail could be made available if there was the will to make it so. New Hampshire has made the highway system the priority and currently spends less than one percent of the transportation budget on rail. A consensus would have to form in favor...

During one of the public feedback sessions people commented that the highway creates a barrier between downtown Concord and the Merrimack River. There was discussion of how to use the opportunity of this highway project to create greater public access to the river. Someone suggested that a...

Who would want to lease space above a bunch of barking dogs?

I guess the people who end up living there shouldn't throw stones.

So I gather the argument then is to avoid locating commuter rail stops where they facilitate parking and riding, and to situate stops in town centers where people are more likely to be able to get along without a personal vehicle. Forgive my naivete here, but how then do people who live in...

The attached video makes it seem that investment in park and ride facilities creates car dependency. A commuter parking lot is only one element of entire suburban communities that are car dependent. Consider this: if we automated personal vehicles such that they dropped us off at the commuter...

https://www.mass.gov/news/healey-driscoll-administration-awards-nearly-14-million-in-funding-for-dams-and-coastal-infrastructure The investment demonstrates the administration's dedication to helping communities adapt to climate change. By restoring and removing aging infrastructure, public...

Or the air rights.

When you purchase a property with windows a few feet from the lot line, you ought to anticipate that the owner of the property on the other side of that line might have a greater use in mind for his land than providing a view to someone else. I know the tenants would likely prefer to retain a...

The Charles is pretty shallow in Watertown. I wonder if there would be a concern about the motor potentially kicking up a lot of mud.

Is anyone talking about preservation of industrial remnants other than on this forum? There have only been a handful of comments here, and the argument against working to preserve the things on these sites is strong. The smokestacks are interesting and prominent, but they are right in the...

Changzou Community Hub Built from Repurposed Oil Tanks https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/changzhou-community-hub-built-from-repurposed-oil-tanks/ar-BB1niYHR

Yes, yes! Renewing and bringing life back to industrialized areas of the city doesn't have to mean plowing everything under. The structural relics of the past are not purposeless when they are used to create unique spaces in developments. A tall smokestack can serve to announce an area from a...