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Wow, obviously I had no idea it was such a heavily-used station pre-pandemic--informative as always!

Any future hypothetical South Attleboro station is just 2.6 miles uptrack from the Pawtucket one. If the Pawtucket one is "too nice," then, practically speaking, given its proximity, hasn't it already cannibalized a critical portion of any ridership at the potential South Attleboro rebuilt...

Tiny, perhaps, from the piggish American perspective. But, seriously, consider what legit 500 sf delivers to two occupants, if you want to carve it into TWO bedrooms for privacy: --a master bedroom that's 125 sf --a secondary bedroom that's 100 sf --a 100 sf living room --a 100 sf kitchenette...

In an ideal world, this project completes, with residential/retail occupancy achieved, simultaneous with RIDOT's plan to relocate the transit hub from Kennedy Plaza... but now that this is underway, I suspect this will be done several years before the transformation of downtown's bus hub.

Count me as an "others"... surveying that row, 129 Tremont (at the Winter St. corner) is clearly a gem, but 128 & 127 Tremont strike me as quite generic, bland, unremarkable. Ditto that for 120 Tremont, the SU Law School. You can overdo it on "respectable dialogue/contextuality with...

Looking at their events page, it seems pretty obvious that HSP is very aggressively targeting non-office worker demographics. Look how many of their events start post-5 pm. Check out their Instagram page too--do any of those featured individuals convey "office worker" messaging? Anyway, it's...

"I bet the people of Waltham wouldn't mind something like this between Moody and Elm. But then, like you say, the cost...." It's interesting to think of how Downtown Waltham's sociology would influence this. On the one hand, the Brandeis community is just .5 miles from what I consider the...

There's always the Corner Mall.

Indeed, that and 10 School St. [aka Walgreens superstore] are both superior Brutalist examples in my mind. Some would argue City Hall is too, of course--but to me, City Hall is permanently disqualified due to the epic failure of its plaza--and of course they were part of a "combo plate." So...

I highly doubt it, only because of my assumption that Fidelity has a very long lease there with its retail brokerage branch--perhaps that's why the sale was so attractive, in a period in which Downtown office towers are otherwise simply not trading? Even if Fidelity gets very little foot...

I do find it interesting that the Leather District was excluded here--yet it has been encompassed within the BPDA's census-tract derived definition of "Downtown" for many many years: www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/17be3f47-f413-4e07-a6cc-c9439e8efc3e/ Why deviate from such long-standing...

Look closer and you'll see that's merely the LLC name; the actual name the restaurant will be going by is The Chemist...

Some might find this trivial, but to me it's incredibly irritating: I just rode in a new--I mean, truly immaculate--double-decker CR car (I assume the single-level cars are never being procured again), and the overhead lighting appears to be Gestapo Torture Cell Contemporary--a shockingly harsh...

Is this some attempt at a Field of Dreams parody? Are you James Earl Jones? If not, a friendly reminder that the 3 most universally acclaimed ballparks--Fenway, Wrigley, Camden Yards--are cherished because they are embedded in hyperdense mixed-use neighbors that exude urbanism. (Have you ever...

I think this is true, based on this depressingly illuminating Globe story from a while back. Arguably, Massachusetts has the worst of both worlds: our regional planning is toothless, given that our county-based system is impotent/purely symbolic, save for judicial-criminal-penal matters. So...

Because it's not Downtown Boston--it's the South End. Moreover, it ain't the swank, Beehive/Cyclorama area South End, either; this is the BMC/Mass & Cass part of the South End (the BMC, in particular, is less than 1,000 feet from here). Perhaps you've seen some headlines of late describing the...

There's also a wonderful old "brick-and-beam" ambiance with the former mills along this corridor--surely that "authentic" ambiance played a significant role in attracting this development, no?

To be clear--when you say, "the entire city"--you should mean the City of Newton, right? (versus, say everything inside Route 128 that SHOULD be part of Boston, but successfully warded-off annexation attempts?) Also, regardless of which municipality you mean to reference, note that Newton's...

As a postscript to my prior post: not only is 35% of the Fenway neighborhood's 215 acres untouchable, as the Fenway estuary system, but, another 5%--11 acres--is... Fenway Park itself. Which is a national historic landmark and a pending Boston Landmark, so similarly untouchable...

Yup. As much as I enjoyed his principled anti-Boston 2024 Olympics stance, this "plan to build on every available piece of land around the ballpark" conspiratorial garbage dumps him right into Howie Carr palookaville. By my measure, the Fenway neighborhood is 215 acres--at its northeast apex...