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One consistent outcome of these shutdowns are the crazy infographics. I'm sure the graphics team yearns for the simpler shutdown days.

Prices have to creep back down within some part of the development process for developers to have an appetite for building housing. It's pretty difficult to make money currently with high land prices and construction prices. John Fish, president of Suffolk Construction, stated something along...

Seems like an astronomical waste of money, looking at the implementation plan...

It'd be pretty strange for them to stop growing their Boston portfolio forever... They will likely take a pause as the financing on this was probably a bit painful/not the best outcome, but the interest rate environment you bring up is in the now, while firms like this with billions in assets...

.... They took out the trees but left the planters in place??

This is MassDOT's CIP. The MBTA has a separate CIP. This may be more relevant in the General Infrastructure thread.

Not the full report:

I don't really mind the concept. My comments were more along the line of bigpicture's, in that this is intended to be a sharp cube, so your detailing of the brick work has to be "sharp." There's no room for imperfections or interruptions, because that's all there will be to look at. You can add...

I was here with a few (millennial) friends this weekend to grab a drink and there seemed to be an uninformed yet resounding and confident agreement that Cambridge Crossing ("CX" as they were saying) is different from the Seaport or Assembly, etc. It mostly seems to stem from the park space. I...

Was expecting better build quality out of this... The brick work look quite cheap...

The state conservatively estimated $1 billion in projected revenue and split ~510m for education and ~490m for transportation. In education, K-12 lunches are free, community college is tuition free for adults 25+, and there is a good amount of grant money for building improvements. On the...

I mean, it's fine, but it's nothing really to write home about, or make a post about on Dezeen. Architecturally, it has some nice features, but again, nothing really inspiring. It fills in a "hole" in downtown, which is great economically, but isn't really what Dezeen or an architecture forum is...

Boston on the big screen!! Let's check the comments: Dezeen's comments are always negative, but it is disappointing this is what 'Boston' warrants worthy of a fancy design article, and the comments are warranted in that respect. I've had my own questions about how they're really...

Reads as a high-end wastewater treatment plant..

The road currently undergoing extensive sewer separation work and gas line replacements?

The article quotes the director saying they're being realistic about housing not being as lucrative, and this project has some pretty large sunk costs already...

I think it's more on the technical development and implementation they will be asking Keolis/the future operator related to electrification. I agree to an extent you should have in-house staff for this, but if they're going to keep outsourcing commuter rail, actually expanding the outsourcing to...

Maybe there's another thread for this, but the MBTA is more vocally/officially discussing an Alewife TOD RFP in the coming weeks. It's a shame this wasn't a few years earlier, they'd probably have developers piling on their door steps to put some labs up. Link Also notable:

New MBTA job posting: Rail Modernization Commercial Strategy Director Notably, the posting includes "primary responsibility for managing the development of the procurement strategy and documents for the 2027 Operator re-procurement, coordinating inputs to them from consultants and other...

It's the part of Cambridge/Greater Boston that I always get the feeling that it's the most proper urban neighborhood. I'll gladly accept it as a copy + paste for the rest of the region (though, nit-picking, the strip-malls and surface parking at and around Memorial Drive, and Memorial Dr itself...