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This thing? It looks like a wholly unremarkable plain brick cube. Unless there are some hidden architectural gems on the inside, I can't possibly see what's worth preserving about it.

Sure, so cut the lab space (and parking) in at least half while keeping the same footprints/heights, and make the rest housing. Lab floor-to-floor height is ~15', while housing is ~10', so you'd get 50% more square footage with the same proposed footprints and heights. I get that Somerville...

It is insane to me that Somerville endorses the amount of proposed parking with barely a second thought, especially given how "transit oriented" the City purports to be. As I wrote above, Medford Street, lower McGrath, and Somerville Ave. are already bumper-to-bumper during rush hour at the...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/01/18/temporary-green-line-slow-zone-approaches-1-year-anniversary/ Apparently the 10 MPH limit on the Lechmere Viaduct is due to a lack of custom ties: Translating MBTAese to English, that means early 2024 at the earliest. Kudos to the article for...

Great historical shots! Those are old telephone wires, not power lines — this was before multiplexing, so each wire could only carry a single phone call at a time, hence the huge number of them.

That's news to me. The bank next door and parking lot behind Reliable are slated for redevelopment, but Reliable itself is notably absent from redevelopment parcels (Reliable is the property notched out from D7 in the bottom left):

I peeked into the construction field office trailer and found this rendering: It appears to be the "future development" in this site plan from the building's website. Based on the relative floor height, it appears to be housing. Does anyone have any further details on the plans for this lot...

The lighting in that first photo is gorgeous. It almost looks like a CGI cityscape from a movie set 30 years in the future (and I mean that in the best way possible).

There is an equally nice Harborwalk from the Financial District to the North End, and neither of those neighborhoods feel remotely mall-like.

"Cities lose the vibrancy and drive that makes them great. They develop a mall-like effect" Seems like the commenter is praising the Harborwalk, as opposed to the Seaport itself. I am inclined to agree — the Seaport neighborhood (and Assembly Row, for that matter) feel like giant malls, but the...

Including the elevator penthouse, it's 257' 9". I have heard rumblings that the zoning board may soon start including mechanical penthouses in total height considerations, since they have gotten so ridiculously large in lab buildings. "Mechanical penthouses" used to just mean elevator...

Very true. I should have said "island style hood," or "chimney hood." That said, wall-mounted chimney hoods are a general design pet peeve of mine, since they usually feel shoehorned in to a cohesive line of cabinets, and thus feel really out of place. Here are a couple extreme examples: I...

Been on the market for 123 days. When interest rates were ~3%, this would have been gone in a jiffy; now, >$1000/square foot is going to be a really tough sell in Somerville, especially with interior design and appliances that scream "high end Home Depot." If I'm paying $1M for only 1000 square...

This doesn't change too much, given that the current rendering makes D6.1 and D6.2 look like one single building anyway: Also, proposing 112 parking spaces literally across the street from a brand new T stop, a 271 space garage at 50 Prospect, and a 332 space garage for 10 Prospect is maddening.

That's because it is close ... only about 2 miles from the building in question. Boston has the closest airport to its downtown out of any major American city.

I'm surprised they're proposing 11'6" floor-to-floor heights. That suggests the addition is intended to be more upmarket than student-tier apartments, which would have ~10' floor-to-floor heights (and room for 2 additional floors at about the same total height).

Look back a few years in the Street View, e.g. 2017:

As you probably can tell by my username, I can offer a bit of an inside perspective on this. This was demanded by Brickbottom residents who feared that the sound wall would block too much light coming into their studios. As you point out, it wasn't a well thought out demand; it will be as...

Updates from the neighborhood meeting on the 24th: * Footprint reduced: Parcel C is proposed to be "future Milk Square development" (potentially a plaza or park); no more hotel. Of course, "future Milk Square" seems to be dependent on the grounding of McGrath and the rerouting of Medford...

Yup. This contrast is extremely stark in a satellite view. The Cedar to Lowell segment is 20 feet wide, including its nice "shoulders." The new path (bottom right) looks like a service road by comparison.