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IIRC the Wu administration talked about how the need to diversify the vendors wasn't (just) progressive box-checking or an economic development tool, but that it would also be part of making the marketplace reflect Boston and Bostonians, vs. today's mall that feels a bit closer to a Walmart...

I think everyone expected the last multifamily boom to go on longer than it actually did. And certainly, as @Charlie_mta says, they'll be gone soon enough. The super-permissive zoning is still there, the demand is still there and the Fed's announcements today show we're on the way towards lower...

Yeah. It seems like updates to the wheel-o-death that don't take pedestrian access to a future station into consideration could very well make one semi-unusable. Or at least turn into a good way of lighting money on fire.

Does anyone know if this study might be looking at adding a commuter rail stop at Newton Corner? https://www.mass.gov/newton-corner-long-term-planning-study It's not obvious from the documents posted so far.

Evey time I see a deep foundation dug out like this (a literal bucket brigade of excavators), I think "there has to be a better way." Surely there are products out there like an auger-driven lift or a bucket chain or something that's cheaper than paying a skilled tradespeople to operate a...

I haven't gone looking for a detailed breakdown of the cost estimate, but a chunk of that has to be the cost of mobilizing the construction crews and equipment, which in a longer project could be amortized out over more kilometers of tunnel, no?

The latest info I'm aware of said that until redevelopment of the parcels along 2nd are complete (which will let them widen the road in the same way that it was done in front of the new Greystar building at 2nd and the Parkway), there will only be a bus lane on the Everett-bound/northbound side...

I can't say I ever realized that quality service every day of the week was quite so limited once you get off the colored transit lines (R/O/G/B/S*). Unless you're in Chelsea, Eagle Hill in Eastie, Harvard Business School and Packard's Corner in Allston, one of the dead at Mt. Auburn Cemetery or...

The brick on the alley side kind of ruins the comparison I'm about to make, but it almost feels like a throwback to 1970s modernist Financial District buildings.

If you can win the argument with Everett officials (you'd probably wind up having to kill some of the big trees in Sweetster Circle to make room for cranes etc.), there is certainly enough room to build a deck over Revere Beach Parkway to put the station closer to the train. What I find...

This is more alternate history inspired by a Wikipedia dive into the Toronto streetcar system's history. The operating principal wasn't to design a "good" streetcar system for Boston, but trying to guess at what one would look like if we never got rid of ours, based on minimal shifts in our...

The difference in parking requirements on either side of the city line seems stark.

I hope this will eventually evolve into "we need more suburban bus routes for last-mile connections like Toronto."

The latest “Everett Docklands Innovation District” concept, per Banker & Tradesman. The thing that looks like a nuclear fuel storage site in the center-left is (presumably) actually the big Jupiter Energy battery-based energy storage facility they announced a while back. Apparently before we...

This ☝️ If you pay close attention to the politics around the MBTA's reliability, you see a lot of downtown Boston business leaders very concerned about anything that makes workers' commutes less pleasant (because it makes it harder to get them in the office, so you have less demand for office...

I wonder if they are planning to self-finance the early buildings, and go debt-heavy on the others.

Facade articulation? 😉

...hire muscular college kids to transport commuters?

And don't forget the potential to build out some form of transit connectivity for all the jobs and potential large multifamily sites along 128 in Woburn, Burlington and maybe northern Lexington.

Is it significant that BXP wants to build this on the site of a 30,000-square-foot lab building? Does anyone have a sense of how old a lab building has to be in order for it to seem "stale" to prospective tenants? This one seems like it was most recently renovated in 2016...