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Some of this is pretty transparent score-settling before the new boss fully takes charge. Look at who's saying the nasty things in the Globe story. It's nameless "coworkers" of these people. And the story focuses a lot on the capital delivery team, who we know (from stories on its ex-leader's...

The Worcester Regional Research Bureau has put out an analysis of WRTA ridership and how things like fare-free transit have or haven't impacted it since COVID: https://www.wrrb.org/reports/2023/04/resurging-regional-ridership/ There's also a data explorer that lets you dig into things like...

I'm not sure you need to even go the whole hog. Places like Burlington, with no rapid transit connection, could have their development trajectories changed massively with a partial-circumference line that links it to downtown Reading (Orange Line extension, God willing), Mishuwam or Anderson...

Driving down Revere Beach Parkway this morning, I noticed one of the parking lots at Wellington appeared jam-packed with normal buses and articulated buses in Silver Line livery. Couldn't get a good look at either as traffic was moving to quickly, so unsure if these were old Neoplan vehicles...

That's all true, but the IT revolution had another side effect: Small-time artists can have fan bases spread all over the country, in seemingly random places. When they tour, it's at places about the size of the Middle East Upstairs (194 ppl) or Sonia (~350 ppl), not MGM Music Hall (3,000 ppl)...

Well, then: https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/04/06/verizon-looks-to-sublease-large-chunk-of-north-sta.html

Like the Verizon tower at the Garden in that way, I guess. At least from the Zakim at night, it looks like they still haven't filled around 15% of the floors.

If you were a teen in the Minneapolis orbit in the 1990s or early 2000s, you knew about Sex World and secretly were desperate to see what was inside. Turns out, it was just 3 stories of gaudy, cheap-as-can-be sex toys, porn, lingerie, "adult novelties" and peep shows (NSFW photos in that...

Is that boutique hotel where Haute Dish used to be on North Washington, a few doors down from Sex World? It's been a while since I lived in Minneapolis, but that's the only two-story white building I can remember in the North Loop 😅

State House News has a big story about how T ridership compares to peer agencies, and what Brian Kane, Jarred Johnson and Jim Rooney from the Greater Boston Chamber think about it. The reporter who wrote it tweeted out the main data in three charts: I'm not sure if it was published elsewhere...

"New small town" is right. That's, what, 1,500 units underway? 2,000 to 2,500 when you add in the Vero and Pioneer? Translates to 3,000-4,000 humans, depending on the unit mixes in each building and how many units are rented by couples?

The other thing to consider is that linkage fees are going up quite a bit (although in a graduated fashion) over the next few years once the Boston Zoning Commission approves the changes. If you, as a developer, believe in the longer-term durability of the biotech sector then it makes a ton of...

In today's edition of the "Are We There Yet" newsletter from the Globe's opinion team. Can't find a permalink to this hosted online anywhere, so I've got to copy-paste:

That's kind of cool to see an owner-operator development like this. We don't get it very often in Boston these days, but that's how a not-insignificant chunk of development used to be done 100 years ago.

Agreed. From the outside, it looks an awful lot like a lot of things are getting punted until a new GM arrives. But that doesn't immediately suggest that Gonneville couldn't do the job -- just that he's being wise and waiting for a new boss to make major policy decisions.

I'd be all for a local version of that station everyone knows on the Chongqing metro.

Also, 3,000 to 4,000 new homes is nothing to sneeze at when various estimates put us tens of thousands of units behind where we need to be just to meet current rental *or* purchase demand.

Allegedly, some of the track work planned in April (announced today: https://www.mbta.com/news/2023-03-23/april-service-changes-will-allow-crews-perform-track-improvement-work-the-red-line ) will address some of those. Does anyone have any inside knowledge that could shed light on what...

If you look at a few of the proposals that have landed during Wu's tenure... https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/12/business/an-accord-allston-harvard-neighbors-reach-deal-that-will-greenlight-big-development-there/...

Not sure why this never clicked before, but wouldn't the warehouse The Davis Compaines built on the Everett-Chelsea line over the last couple years make a great acquisition for the T? They built it for/leased it to Amazon, but apparently the company closed the delivery facility planned there...