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80-100% AMI is kind of absurd for this type of stuff. Following this to its logical conclusion it would mean that for the program to address the entirety of the problem we would have to spend tens of billions to house anywhere near the number of people on the "affordable housing" waitlist. This...

By no means is it the only way to evaluate cities lmao, directly looking at regulatory codes and per capita GDP get at those fundamentals much more cleanly for sure. It's possible to build a nice city without the high rises, but constraining their construction entirely in favor of historical...

The average size of a Japanese home has expanded a lot even in the last 30 years. It's largely caught up with all the other rich countries short of the United States and Canada (although it's not that far behind). I would speculate a lot of that change is enabled by the shorter duration of the...

https://odessitcapital.com/portfolio/the-bertram-inn/ 153 Saint Paul Street

I don't know how many people share the way I think, but it comes down to the distinction about whether the height itself or the environment that enables height is what makes Boston "better". That's what I mean when I say I like supertalls as a proxy of other underlying metrics that matter...

My 2 cents: it's mostly as a proxy for things that I care more about than raw aesthetics (in which case I do like supertalls lol, guilty as charged). Resistance to dramatically changing the skyline is symptomatic of an excessively conservative local culture that is more focused on the past than...

At some point one of these buildings in the commercial triangle must build out with significant dining/retail right. 10,000 people with above average income within a 5 minute walking distance just sounds like a winning location but idk

Just counting the major projects that people have been posting on the forum: South Station tower 0.7m 10 WTC 0.6m Volpe C3 0.6m 290 Binney 0.6m 585 Kendall 0.5m Alewife Park 0.7m Fenway center 0.7m Landmark Center 0.5m 109 Brookline 0.3m Allston Labworks 0.5m Harvard ERC 0.7m That's...

Nothing wrong with Somerville lol, but not everyone shares a nostalgia for these buildings

That 15 year massing example looks beautiful

Thanks for the historical context to the design choices. I personally just never found the form appealing when I used to live in Somerville.

I think it looks nice, I like that it seems to cover the entire lot, that's already a 2x improvement over most triple deckers without mentioning the additional floor they squeezed in.

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Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what the arrangement is other than that a lot of the units in the area have listings on apartments .com. I do think there are lots of places in JP that would make a lot of sense in the configuration you describe. I feel like the ideal use case for this plot...

I've always thought this spot was super underdeveloped given its location lmao. No idea what the ownership structure or neighborhood organization looks like, but I feel like there must be so many residents and nurses and postdocs willing to pay extra for a 5-minute walking commute to the...

With all these new and empty lab buildings, my personal hope is that we can attract more and weirder startups with cheaper real estate.