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It's sort of too bad Nixon used the Navy Yard to take his revenge on Massachusetts. If the feds were still there you can bet your buns the whole area would be in line for comprehensive flood defenses on that side and at least a flood gate across the mouth of Montego Bay, all in the name of...

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2024/07/29/lexingtons-mbta-zoning-spurs-real-world-action-fr.html From south to north: ~200-unit CC&F project that I think someone else may have posted elsewhere on ArchBoston (the render in the article looks familiar) is the southern-most dot on this...

That makes sense. The latest numbers say there's still 8 million square feet of lab space under construction (that's 16 times the size of this Two Congress building), only a third of which is pre-leased. And with 16 percent (and rising) of existing space vacant, nearly two-thirds of which is in...

Most folks don't realize it but an endowment isn't just a pile of money sitting in a bank vault. Most of it's tied up in investments, like a pension fund, that are intended to generate cashflow or just keep the dollars safe. If you have the luxury to take a long-term view, you're not going to...

Not sure if this is more appropriate here or in one of the transportation-related threads, but the Worcester Research Bureau is out with the first in a two-part study of parking utilization in the city: https://conta.cc/3Wskuoz and...

That's one way to eliminate most of the Red Line slow zones.

I'm sure regional political coalitions on Beacon Hill play a big part in this.

Don't forget hotels: https://bankerandtradesman.com/another-option-for-vacant-office-buildings/

Does anyone have any insight into why enforcement of those pseudo-lanes is so terrible? And whose job is it, anyway? BTD or BPD?

From a materials/finish point of view, I'm curious to see how this turns out (assuming it won't get VE'd into trash). It's an interesting idea, but my worry is that the walls covered by each material are otherwise so featureless and flat, it'll wind up feeling hostile and monolithic, like a...

That's quite possible. Just speculating, but I also wonder if financing was a challenge, too. Quincy wasn't yet a "proven" luxury market when it was proposed, and it's possible they couldn't find enough bank money that believed in their vision.

When I was passing by over the weekend, it looked like Greystar had the pile drivers out and starting to work on the foundations for the second building.

I'm sure there are jokes to be made about the Red Line's average speed, here.

https://bankerandtradesman.com/red-line-car-makes-pit-stop-at-south-boston-development-site/ Some new bling for the events space on the On the Dot lot that the developer is running while they wait for capital markets to loosen. "The interior of the car won’t be accessible to the public...

The cities of Chelsea and Everett are currently working on trying to block off the main source of infiltration, actually -- Island End Creek: https://www.islandendriver.com/home Got some preliminary funding (presumably design work?) in a March 2022 federal spending bill...

It feels noteworthy that the Vero development just over the Chelsea line hasn't managed to secure any retail tenants to date, and that the Pioneer's retail tenant is an expansion of a coffee shop across the street (mimicking the paired Dunkins just up the Parkway).

I really wish they'd run the development name through a spell-checker first, though. (unless V10's marketing department has turned into Shrewsbury history stans, in which case I approve)

While we're at it, can I have a pony, too?? (not a dig at @bakgwailo, just trying to echo the point about how unspeakably tough this would be to pull off in the current environment. In 30 years, however...)

I dream that when North Washington comes around for a rebuild (that pavement sure looks rough), the city will give it the Columbus Ave. treatment.

Its business model relies on really intensive, high-priced mixed-use real estate development around its stations, though. You aren't going to be able to get that at most MBTA CR stations.