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I wouldn't exactly call the former train arrival point glamorous... especially with the deteriorating condition of the platforms/overhangs and bad patch-jobs. Track 1 had that plywood scaffolding for years! If you view the platform and new archway area as a prolonged exit of the train, and then...

Ehh, it's not a scenic walk and is stretching the definition of "adjacent", but from the corner of S. Station Connector & Albany to the corner of Herald & Albany is about 1100' straight down the sidewalk on Albany... about the distance from the S. Station Bus entrance down Beach St. to the...

ProJo: Stall tactics and abuse of power alleged as Apex saga drags on in court

Presumably a construction vehicle for this project didn't quite make the 3-point-turn:

I have to say, while I've been more open to this kind of avant garde project than many people in the area, I'm disappointed at the exact site this is going ahead on. I had initially thought this was going to be at 200 Dyer, but it's planned to be directly across from 225 Dyer - on what is...

Alternate pitch: a statue of the two of them dressed as in this photograph, near this same location (or on the Common if you need more space for plaques). Those arms could be anyone's.

Art, like architecture, can absolutely be phenomenal or terrible due to being acontextual to its surroundings. Maybe the Chicago Bean is one example of the former. I may be a philistine, but this is one of the latter cases to me. A magnificent larger-than-life statue of Dr. King himself standing...

This wasn't the Mike's point, but to be fair, check out some other downtown playgrounds (Elliot Norton Park, for instance). Even before COVID, they were largely occupied with encampments that scared off parents & kids, and BOS:311 indicates this is a broader problem throughout the neighborhoods...

Yes, the trellis they propose is functionally identical to just ignoring that part of the parcel - doesn't help with air quality, noise, or providing new space for parks, dog walking, buildings, etc. I realize this is more of a solution looking for a problem, but this parcel connects under the...

The FAA zoning is somewhat limiting to towers but not impossible to work with to develop some "pretty talls" on otherwise fairly open parcels. Government Center Plaza could max out between 725-800+' (depending on location), the area around North Station (O'Neill, Nashua St., etc.) could hit...

Another R-1 virtual meeting on 1/20

No updates or developments to report, but since we have a nice new subforum, I figured I'd spin off a new thread to post this. A guy on YouTube has been making some micro-documentaries on interesting Rhode Island landmarks, such as the Crook Point Bascule Bridge, and he just released one about...

Definitely, there have been a number of great ideas for how to treat this chasm, but so far none have materialized, leaving the air quality dangerously poor for this largely minority neighborhood and leading to health disparities. One thought I had was, if private bidders for the difficult air...

Found a really nice mini-documentary from a few days ago bout the tunnel and bridge:

In a recent Parcel R-1 Chinatown BPDA zoom community meeting, a large amount of comments, particularly from younger members of the community, called attention to Chinatown's "worst air quality in MA" status. Many community members shared their own personal experiences growing up with asthma and...

Shawmut's LinkedIn page had some nice photos of the Brown PAC topping-off:

Really? I wasn't there at the time, but those photos look genuine, and I first heard about it from this article: Here's an aerial shot from 1969 (Photo credit): and in 1976 (Photo credit):

I can't believe that I only recently learned about the Copley Square of the 1960s - converted into a hideous concrete plaza of levels, and a mistake thankfully undone: I see a lot of parallels to City Hall Plaza. I'm sure the designers of this lovely centerpiece of urban life were well-educated...

Hey, they're cantilevering a bit over the ramp!

It does look like those tunnels could plausibly be a sort of ventilation plenum for the Green Line south/westbound tunnel, like the reddit engineer suggested. It's just surprising since there doesn't seem to be any obvious powered fan systems, and it's not clear why they're demolishing it if...