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My tinfoil theory is that MassDOT is sandbagging to get funding for the south side maintenance facility out of this project.

I wish permission to do this came with a hard commitment to full build, with timelines and funding fully identified.

Oh no… This feels like another GE. They’ll move up to Boston and eventually split into Has Toys and Bro Toys.</sarcasm>

With the rise of mapping apps and the gig economy, dead ends are the only way to keep the apps from routing traffic down side streets. In the era of paper maps, people unfamiliar with an area tended to rank roads by size and stick to the major roads. Algorithms see roads as an undifferentiated...

872 Broadway is another example of the vernacular Somerville sidewalk transformer.

The street level windows, with the grills, look awful.

Short of declaring a plan by fiat, you won’t be able to avoid the endless discussions about fixing 93 in that stretch.

I was thinking more like this.

It looks like a person in a squirrel suit from that angle.

The old GLX staging area is going to become expanded storage tracks for the VMF and a MoW facility.

It’s probably a non-starter because the vertical stripes will generate jokes about prison bars.

I love that this one is such a quick build that they aren’t bothering with a tower crane.

East Somerville is getting a new entrance to the Inner Belt area. It’s not perfect, but it will improve the connections to the neighborhood a little bit. The original scoping considered putting East Somerville north of Washington St, approximately where the old Milk Row B&M station was. I think...

The proposed building is ugly. It’s trying to conceal the third floor under the mansard roof, and it ends up coming off as a Beverly Hills boutique.

I thought it was another spec lab build for a moment.

I love the composition of that photo. You nailed the juxtaposition of the classic pre-war buildings with the new building standing above.

Those trees were one of the few examples of what the pathetic arrays of saplings at many projects could become, if they were given time, space, and proper care.

To tie this back to the subject of the thread, I suspect us patrons of the Wrap probably sliced a couple of years off our lives.

I remember the Thai wrap as my go to. Around thanksgiving they had a wrap with Turkey, stuffing, cranberries, and gravy that I deeply regretted ordering once.