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Love living in a post-profit era. Nothing needs to make money. It need only be financed.

Cambridge has voted to ban broker's fees. But for weird Mass reasons this has to be approved by the legislature. Unpaywalled globe article here.

I think you will always have a hard time convincing progressives that development doesn’t make money hand over fist. Most people live in 100 year old buildings and pay through the nose for them, and those landlords live like kings. They really only stop profiting so much when another owner buys...

https://binj.news/2022/12/14/redesigning-union-squares-substation/ Found an interview of some kind if people want a soruce.

I think the bridge is structurally unsafe right? Which is why they rotated it and it’s no longer used for walking.

This building seems to reject the idea that buildings should have structure. It's like they were required to have a facade at street level, and then said f it, glass box on top.

The realtor wasn't a liar, they just read too much ArchBoston and started dooming ;)

Dead-end the highway where it meets Broadway near 93 to cut off the traffic, and convert to local roads around the station, with no direct route from one side to the other. Somerville Ave is a beautiful street and then you get to target and you're just in hell. This makes me realize that the...

I listened to the task force meeting today, there is a big lecture therein from who I think is a T person about them needing the space and a lot of scolding about people who continue to ask about the yard. Was kind of surprised.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/mcgrath-boulevard-project-frequently-asked-questions/download Hadn't seen this, but they have a FAQ for why they bungled up the design so badly on this project. TLDR: We didn't want to try very hard.

The mayor should cone off the highway tomorrow and start knocking out support columns

The fact that they fixed a superblock is amazing. I would have almost expected them to have one 2 story building across the whole property lol.

Might need mechanical ventilation if you put a wall there.

Improvement just came in overnight in Inman. Parking moved into other side of the lane

ChatGPT, please tell me the German word for the type of PTSD you get from seeing transit extensions colocated with legacy mainline ROWs

I'm just glad they fixed the bench. Now you can sit on it.

There must be 1 employee at all these development firms that comes up with a unique name for each of these complex so that they can have their own .com domain for leasing. Just sitting there thinking of names like Juniper or The Jackrabbit or pulling random old-sounding surnames like Whittaker...

When is the new Hynes tunnel opening?

The green paneling is giving 'high school built in the 60s'

Not to jump the gun at all but I am an author actually! My book is coming out this summer — it’s fiction but features urban renewal heavily in the plot. Partially inspired by things I’ve learned on this forum. Would be happy to help get people copies if people agreed to read it. But it’s still a...