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11.27.24 from Kendall Green Garage Rooftop Garden:

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11.24.24 from Herter Park:

The Globe's On The Street series takes a look at Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/26/business/mattapan-zoning-housing-businesses-blue-hill-avenue/

I'll never understand why street parking is allowed on Newbury.

https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-has-one-of-the-tightest-housing-markets-in-the-state-report-finds/

https://newbedfordlight.org/gov-healey-unions-call-for-major-expansion-of-new-england-offshore-wind/

Renovations will take 3 years, with the streetscape improvements coming at the tail end of that timeline: https://dailyfreepress.com/2024/11/20/warren-towers-renovations-to-occur-over-next-3-years/

Brookline does not appear to be taking the housing crisis very seriously: https://brookline.news/town-meeting-votes-to-put-biggest-zoning-changes-on-ice/

Agreed, especially because if you are walking eastbound you can't see around the corner of the building until the last second, so it is easy to get clipped by someone biking southbound into the intersection if you cross against the signal. Agreed it's a good mental reminder for me to pause for a...

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/boston-affordable-housing-gentrification-acquisition-opportunity-program-hits-goal/731727/

This Bloomberg article features an interesting co-housing project in Malden I hadn't heard of--Bay State Cohousing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-11-05/paris-traffic-ban-city-steps-up-campaign-against-car-congestion https://www.baystatecohousing.net/about

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/23/metro/portland-maine-homeless-crackdown/

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/22/harvard-files-allston-master-plan/

Unfortunately this is a trend in a lot of the Globe's coverage of local issues. Sometimes they do deep dives that are quite good and appear to be well-researched, but for a lot of the day-to-day stuff the coverage really seems to phone it in, throwing in some opposing soundbites without any...

Are they building a mini-high at Franklin? Photo is from a few weeks ago while I was passing through. (Shoutout to Birchwood Bakery & Cafe just around the corner--a solid breakfast spot!)

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/2024/11/20/stalled-development-around-polar-park-in-worcester/76429502007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/pink-house-massachusetts.html

Nice! I didn't even realize this one had actually broken ground. Great to see some solid infill in this area--it really needs to densify to have less of a suburban office park / mall vibe.