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Watching the progress on a beautiful Saturday evening alongside the cattle in Seaport --

7-17-23 - Making good progress and consistently a very active construction site late into the evening (these photos are from just before 8 pm). Whoever is overseeing this should go work for the T when this is finished.

H-Mart, the increasingly popular Korean grocery store, continues to expand its presence in the Boston region. A new 25,000 store is planned in the Townline Plaza at 295 Middlesex Street on the Medford/Malden line (it really is right on the line - I think the street and part of the parking lot is...

7-12-23 from the Fort Point Channel/Seaport

7-14-23

7-11-23

A few photos of the waterfront just a couple blocks east of Cabot Street --

From a development perspective, Beverly is really promising and a bit frustrating at the same time. The geography of the Downtown area is really interesting - basically set on a penninsula surrounded by the Atlantic and Bass River with urban-ish densities and Downtown Salem less than 2 miles...

6-20-23

6-20-23

Some Esplanade shots at dusk --

6/11/2023 from a few semi-distant perspectives --

Very cool perspective, especially in the first pic

6/10/23

Great. The only thing is I don't think that added texture running down the center is going to completely alleviate the blank wall effect on this side of the facade. Incorporating some mural or public art may have been a creative way to address it.

I always thought Park Street Station could use some more ornamentation/markers or renovation/modernization to showcase it more as the first American subway station. I think there's a mural now, but it's pretty easy to miss and for the most part, it's a pretty unremarkable station.

This is one of those 'Back to the Future' things. Pitched by the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Boston & Maine Railroad launched the 'Snow Train' from North Station to ski resorts in New Hampshire in 1931 as a way to generate additional income in the Depression. Billed as the first of its kind...

"...the proposed building with 64 affordable apartments, 30 affordable condos and 2 market rate condos..." I'm all for the project but is there a good reason that just 2% of the units are market rate non-income restricted units? Is it to satisfy some stupid benchmark to qualify as "a...

Does anybody know if there's a plan for this tiny parcel in front of the Convention Center hemmed in by the railroad tracks, Summer Street, and World Trade Ctr Ave? Is it even buildable? It just seems unnecessarily depressing looking for a relatively prominent location and from Streetview it...

6-5-2023 Nice to see the pedestrian path over the 93 ramp coming together --