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I prefer the term “comfortable progressives”. They are progressives until the moment that it might make them less comfortable than they presently are.

My tinfoil tells me that the proximity of the various rumors involving JetBlue indicates that the source is an investor with a large position in JetBlue. They’re too small to be Too Big To Fail, and too big be easily digested.

I assume that’s the fly loft frame standing in the midst of the site.

Uncomfortable questions: How close do you live to this development? Do you live closer to Davis than Inner Belt? How is your personal proximity to the project affecting your support of it?

My one issue is pulling the street wall back on Elm. There are plenty of plaza spaces in Davis already.

Looks like a lab building. I prefer the one with the mortarboard, because at least it did something different with the cornice.

Playing around with the calculator on the Somerville Zoning website, it looks like 3 units requires 1 affordable in NR zones. 2 units would drop to zero affordable. The builders of 52-58 Alpine St subdivided into two lots so that each duplex was two luxury units. The building reads as a single...

Subdividing into 3 unit buildings allows them to avoid making any units affordable, and I think may also avoid cash contributions to the housing fund.

Is he making a play to run for Governor?

In the spirit of crazy transit pitches: steal a pair of lanes from 93 and put a heavy rail metro in the median.

Winter time in a Cambridge pre-war courtyard apartment. They don’t build them like this anymore…

They are installing a couple of interim chargers at the Everett facility. I haven’t heard about delivery of any of the BEBs yet either.

Why was the original vendor unable to do it? Was the contract under-specified? Were they BS-ing their capabilities?

Slow progress on the charging rig at the North Cambridge garage. They have been doing a lot of underground conduit work, so visible change has been minimal.

It’s got rrrridges…

It is a transferable skill if the point is to burn it all down.

The minimal articulation of the facade makes it hard to like. There’s no depth, no shadows, no character.