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YEEHAW

wow. transformative

Beyond bizarre given the ultra low hotel vacancy rates that it's not a hotel. The prices are insane, esp in Kendall.

Second is much better not least for putting the park on the interior not on busy Harrison ave. 383 units is much too few though and it's frankly ridiculous to put purely affordable housing here given how segregated Lower Roxbury is (and how unaffordable the South End is).

I wonder if they want to sit on it and sell the dev rights like the constellation center shyster in cambridge....

Are there plans to make Revere Beach Pkwy safer to cross on foot?

I believe that is part of the bus lanes on BHA plan that is inching towards construction.

There is in fact BRT infrastructure that numerous busses use between Blue Hill Ave + Seaver and Jackson Sq, to be extended to Ruggles. Runs right be the Franklin Park entrances. Arguably great mass transit here.

The demand for new class A space is quite different from the demand for B/C space...

Strongly agree. Added to this, the immediate incentive of your property taxes falling by 60% from conversion (besides other incentives) is a good reason not to wait for interest rates to drop.

Isn't the third track area needed if an OL extension to Roslindale Sq is built (yes I know, CR conversion here is better but the OL extension is on City plans)

It is highly unclear to anyone if Somernova was actually going to be a Greentech space in practice: it was probably branding for what would end up being mostly biotech. Even Greentown labs has a ton of traditional biotech startups. As you note, the climate tech sector is much smaller.

Bikers speeding down Peters Hill is not exactly what all the people wandering the Arboretum will want either. The hills to get to the entrances on Peters Hill from Roslindale Sq are also quite steep, if not steeper. This path seems like a pretty great project.

City of Boston has a bad track record of funding improvements they wanted developers to build.

No worse than triple deckers. And I'm not sure the reactivation is happening without this project.

Also reactivation of an entry to the arboretum, which is how you know its pastoralist nimby nonsense not actual concern for the park

I heard from an IAG member that the Arboretum road proposal is effectively dead after BPDA wouldn't fight back enough against the arboretum NIMBYs

Underground parking, yet site raised. We still can't even do serious consistent policy on a site by site basis let alone by the City.

IZ is a bad system, full stop. It was created in the 70s to block any new housing in places like Berkeley. That said, it can serve useful integration ends, if properly compensated for with density bonuses. All that is immaterial given today's policies, though, which require flexibility and...

Some back of the envelope math here about how self-defeating the City's IZ policy is here: 5-7M is the aff housing contribution to the Oxford St building. City property taxes on 115 condos are going to be well over 1M per year. Boston could *easily* either just pay the aff housing subsidy out...