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The glass always so nice on clear days

I'm just happy it's going to be 5-600ish units instead of the lab + 125. Would have been nice if it was taller, but still hope it happens

If I recall, the proposals were for a midrise lab building subsidizing 100 units of 100% affordable housing. The economics of just the lab building are probably unfavorable now, doubly so for the subsidizing a housing dev and triply so for the complexities in the air rights dev right. Curious to...

Comment period started on Friday when these materials were released, I tossed in a comment of support for the project on the Boston plans website https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/35-75-morrissey-boulevard-phase-1

Where everyone else downscales proposals Everett is upscaling them lmao

I think our cities would be a lot healthier if we weren't so attached to individual structures and could build and rebuild at will. No one thinks Japan and its cities are devoid of history for doing this and they have the benefit of relatively rational housing costs

Not surprised lmao

I suspect the completed building will look quite nice around dusk when its dimmer outside and you can see the insides of each floor kinda like in this picture. That and I'll never understand everyone's aversions to this whole wrapped windows thing lmao, looks cool to me

Beautiful day outside

Why go to Everett if you can burn your money on your couch :ROFLMAO:

Either way, this location should take priority because its better situated, following the dollar signs is probably a pretty good approximation of what will get the most units built by directing them towards the best locations first.

As a general point, I don't really like always pushing new developments towards former industrial land. It's definitely more politically viable, and maybe Boston is particularly drawn to brownfield development since we got the seaport without tearing down too many established communities. But...

I feel like if they just polished up the facade it would look quite attractive to anyone.

Looks beautiful. Would absolutely love to see another 20 of these around Davis and Porter.

My favorite suburb of Boston :love: ty for updates

When I see this kind of stuff, I always think about a point that local economist Ed Glaeser makes about nonlocal effects. The marginal person who can't live in Boston will likely move to a suburb or new construction in North Carolina so the good of decreasing local emissions is offset.

I've always thought that it would be nice to enclose these areas at the entrances to use as shelters, kinda like how the D branch through Newton and Brookline has a mini shelter for the fare machines. Additional bonus being the possibility of adding fare gates back into the designs without...