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Not to get defensive...but the ground beneath the water is not mucky like these beaches across new england. It's not mucky in 90% of the cape, certainly not the vineyard or nantucket or down by westport and newport...in almost all those places the ground is covered by a thick bed of sand. My...

Couldn't agree more...these beaches are no great resource. The sand is coarse, and the sand in the water is little more than muck. Revere Beach and Nantasket are the closest thing to nice beaches around Boston harbor. I think it would have been better had the original development of the area...

Office parks (as conventionally known and designed) suck. Full stop. Better urban design is to respect the street wall (or at least try and create one) and have pocket parks. The city with its varied uses of hotels and labs and office is already encroaching upon the industrial park...with any...

Perhaps this has been said before....but WTF with that suburban front yard in the rendering on the fence. What is this Waltham in 1988?

I suppose this won't require as much upkeep as some of the others...but until the city actually devotes adequate resources to the common it will continue to look like the poor step child to the doted upon public garden. As with almost everything in Boston, it's not the capital investment so much...

Amazon could eventually edge out Wayfair, but Wayfair has vastly superior search and filter functionality.

Wow...that's a beautiful project...I'm amazed the developer can afford such quality. I've looked at a lot of projects in Dorchester and can't make the numbers work. You're paying the same for construction as you do in the South End but your sales numbers are so inferior.

The examples above aren't bad at all. I'm gut renovating a triple decker in East Boston right now. I actually think the East Boston stock is preferable to most of the Dorchester stock because of the front porches. After 120 years very few of those porches look good around Dorchester and even...

People have a reflexive nostalgia and defensiveness toward the housing style...so I don't see any widespread change happening in the next several decades. Wood doesn't age well...and these were thrown up to house a working class population. My uncle lives in a two family over in Watertown and is...

Looks really good...really throws into relief just how decrepit the rest of the neighborhood looks. Allowing for greater density in some select areas of Dorchester would be great. The housing stock was never meant to last hundred of years and the woodframe structures have not aged well. But...

That is an unmitigated disaster.

like the facade so far...could be very cool

I'm amazed that a university like MIT so consistently produces such dreck. They have a good school of architecture...they are smart people...this isn't that complicated...why can't they opt for decent urban planning and design??????

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport I'm generally a fan of the Seaport now, with some reservations. That said, places like Melbourne and Rotterdam and Seattle have simply done a better job of building out new areas with modern architecture.

Yes. It's a shame. The name of the place that Cultivar replaced escapes me at the moment, but that was terrific at the outset too. It had a great aesthetic and good food. The Boston food scene is tough.

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport While I agree the Seaport is not what it could have been, and the architecture is generally not world class, it is becoming a truly vibrant part of the city with real street life and interesting urban spaces. In comparison to what I feared it would...

I agree, the City botched this as much as Ashkenazy. But I believe that lease happened towards the very end of the Menino regime. Menino was not what anyone would call a visionary. Nice man with limited vision. Quincy Market's food vendors bring nothing to the table. Look at all the innovation...

The real story here is just how completely Ashkenazy has screwed up its management and vision for Quincy Market. The spot has limitless potential and a phenomenal setting. But from the start they have failed to reimagine how the asset can be used. They have approached it with the same stale...

This reminds me of listening to wait wait don't tell me...filled with the laughter of self satisfied sixty year olds who are still compensating for being picked last at the kickball game every recess in grammar school. Esoteric knowledge is not the same thing as humor...but I digress.

I'm not quite sure I follow...perhaps I missed a discussion higher up. What do people in the permian basin have to do with this project and why will we be china when we run out of oil? Is this project owned by a firm backed with oil money?