Search results

Not an expert in any of this but I hope there are more success stories for high end residential buildings in the area. Just browsing listings on the Pierce look pretty wild renting upwards of $100/sqft/yr right now. It looks like the demand for this kind of high-rise luxury residential is there...

I just watched a group of half a dozen people at a small above-ground green line stop get on. With all-door boarding, they just waltzed in through the back and none of them tapped. The MBTA needs to step up its messaging and enforcement or else I think the fare evasion rate will be like 70% lmao

From last year, always been a big fan of Taipei

125 Cambridgepark Drive

This picture from DTX has to be one of my favorite views of Boston ngl, I love the weird angles and the mix in styles.

Out that far from city center you have two forces that work on providing more parking per unit: 1) parking/driving is worth more to tenants in a car centric area 2) land is cheaper per unit area I'm at least unsure whether it's true that a developer isn't on the hook for an unsuccessful...

The supply of parking really should be a function of how important it is to people there. I don't think we should be in the business of giving everyone free street parking, space is valuable. Free parking encourages more car ownership than is efficient and that has externalities in the form of...

Too bad everyone thinks a municipal assembly knows better than the developer on site how much parking is needed to make a project viable 🙄

New spending on aid has been a very small part of the yearly military budgets, let alone American aggregate demand. And that's even with the dramatically falling defense spending as a percentage of gdp since the cold war. If we want to get serious about deficits crowding out investment, we need...

I probably shouldn't be surprised given how few people have kids these days, especially in Massachusetts

I imagine it probably has as much or more to do with school quality as it does to do with raw space demand. Most people with the resources to get a suburban home and inclination to have kids would probably rather their kids go to Newton or Acton than Boston or Somerville I feel. Improving...