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https://www.boston.gov/departments/neighborhood-development/housing-changing-city-boston-2030 I've seen this give a ballpark figure while establishing its goals, maybe check the original plan or the revised plan. Housing more students in dorms is part of the goals.

Are you requiring they be headquartered here? That's silly. Every tech major is making a presence of some sort here (except I guess salesforce). Boston proper is not actually all that weak at all in the "finance" sector, but those businesses have no desire to locate to kendall. Biotech builds...

You'd have a point with residential but considering Kendall is more desirable than Boston proper for locating a business I'm pretty sure more expensive commercial space in a tall tower here will have no issue getting leased quickly.

YIMBYs need to place more of an emphasis on running for local government positions and pooling their money to buy off politicians for their selves. The people buying off their own politicians is starting to make headway on the national level, maybe it should be applied to the local level as...

And they should be pushing FAA limits with how hot that area is right now. I'm not saying that out of height fetishism, but rather I'm noting they are not maximizing density here like they should be. Instead they're going to artificially limit floor space and send costs skyrocketing anywhere...

Considering how desirable Kendall is and how no one can get enough residential/commercial/lab space there their only option is to build up and they just aren't doing it.

The T would be able to handle its passengers if it wasn't for chronic underinvestment... The problem is not that people are choosing to use it. And "Traffic sucks" is exactly why I'm disappointed when the proportions of these large mixed use developments end up leaning towards commercial...

The housing and apartment vacancy rate has been lower. Prices and land value aren't so volatile that they'd shoot up to Boston prices in that scenario. There was a while where the housing vacancy rate in Portland was 0.0% and it had everything to do with Boston transplants. My little brother...

What is with this tone deaf conversation? Housing costs are skyrocketing in secondary cities. People who work in Boston but can work remotely but want to be close enough to stop in the office once a week are moving to places like Portland ME causing a housing shortage more severe than what's...

If everything is approved and financing is secured what's too optimistic about that?

They can accommodate a220s though. The a220-100 is approved and the a220-300 likely lies in the near future. If you're feeling hopeful for jetblue, they do have a220s on order...

I know, that's why I wanted to know what they're really called because I knew everyone was calling it a brand name!

You just reminded me I've been wondering what the technical term for those things is for years, but never think about when I actually have access to the internet. We just call them JLGs at work. ... Apparently they are boom lifts. Finally cleared up that mystery for myself, thanks for reminding me.

When landlords raise rents to insane levels just as an economy stagnates prior to a recession... At least they're about to get that greed slapped out of them pretty hard, soon.

Re: Cambridge Crossing | Parcel EF | Office The area is #1 in lab space. https://www.genengnews.com/a-lists/top-10-u-s-biopharma-clusters-6/

Honestly, I had shown a picture of this to my Watertown resident relative, and her response might have been the look they were going for that I had never thought of - "It looks like a cruise ship!"

The ceremonial dirt thing looks more bizarre than usual in that image.

I'm extremely envious of everyone who has these incredibly nice working environments. I guess that's what I get for working for the federal government I guess. The stuff I look at all day is just outright depressing.

Ah, I see I was a bit premature after all.

It is, but I think Boston could do ok doing one moderately big project at a time. Like finish glx, move on to red to blue connector. All while doing a boat load of smaller improvements across the system.