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The Fall River station location sucks and will continue to suck especially while Route 79 construction continues. New Bedford is certainly a different story. If you're stuck right by the station, Mesa 21 is actually a really decent restaurant with a number of good Portuguese dishes (pizza is OK...

Seems like this was submitted in response to that 2024 RFP?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/metro/ri-providence-affordable-housing-peter-pan-diner/ (Paywall) Blueprints filed with the city showed plans to redevelop the former Peter Pan Diner at 327 Elmwood Ave., which was later acquired by Johnson & Wales University, into a five-story mixed-use...

The housing market in Eastie is wild. I saw this unit at The Mark listed for $499k, which is what it sold for in 2022. The same exact unit 2 floors below is for rent for $2650. The average buyer who puts 20% down will be paying in the ballpark of $3800 per month all-in for that same unit. I'm...

Thanks. I actually didn't realize that there was consideration for a Woonsocket-Pawtucket-Providence commuter rail line. So those renders are optimistic, but not fully dishonest.

Love the photo! Was the line double tracked through here, or was that second track just for station access?

Great project and definitely worth of its own thread! I love the train in the rendering. Usually train tracks running alongside a residential project outside of a transit corridor in the city are not viewed as a good thing. But it almost (to my eyes, anyway) looks like they're trying to make...

Good point about the cross streets. Closer to downtown, it makes sense that there aren't any because of the grading (essentially there's a giant retaining wall to the east of the tracks), but extending the existing streets across the new parcels would have gone a long way toward reconnecting the...

It's ambitious in scale, not so much in content. My big question is how serious they are about "walkability." Particularly between President Avenue and Brightman St. where there appear to be no crosswalks, no signals, and Davol St. NB/SB are 2 lanes of one way traffic. The street alignment...

I think it's going to be a challenge, but I don't think it's going to be quite the catastrophe that both abutters and potential attendees are making it out to be. It'll definitely improve if/when the bridge and further development happen.

Agreed. I'm curious to see how many people, especially in the Freetown area, North end of New Bedford, etc. opt to drive to East Taunton even if there's a stop closer. The shuttle adds about 10 minutes and a transfer to the trip, so it may just be more convenient to drive a relatively short...

Eh, I did this commute for 3 years (2014-2017). The low end of those Google estimates are basically the drive times with no-traffic, under ideal conditions (basically, no weekday morning/evening ever). The high end is closer to the norm under normal circumstances. Add additional time for an...

Actually, the money is likely the single most important reason Penn State is able to host repeatedly in Allentown while UMaine can't/won't host in Portland. Penn State's endowment is more than 10x greater than UMaine's ($4.5 billion vs. $436 million), and they spend 9x more on athletics than...

Whoops! Yes, they were a 15. I know PC has a strong hockey program, but I don't know about the other three. I'm more of a basketball guy. Would love to see something like that, though. I've spent some time in Springfield for work. I've even stayed at the Sheraton downtown a few times. It's a...

Do the procedures for buses at railroad crossings include proceeding across the tracks even if "sightlines are significantly limited?" And if the driver started to go through the crossing before the lights came on, shouldn't they have continued through (even if they hadn't "reached the tracks...

Hey! Bryant made the NCAA tourney this year! Sure they were a 16 seed and got bounced immediately, but they made it while the other 3 did not.

It's a great experience. We went to Session 1 last Thursday. But considering the popularity of the tournament, I wonder how much longer the AMP is going to meet the criteria for hosting. It's very much on the smaller end. Yeah, that one's curious. Fargo is a vibrant (and very fast growing)...

It's probably the closest comp. for Portland/UMaine in this discussion (state school hosting a tournament in another city well over 100 miles away), but it's still an outlier and there other pretty significant considerations for why it likely wouldn't happen in Maine: Allentown is a larger...

Haha true. I think Portland could swing a 10k arena now. The catchment area is greater than the metro number indicates, and it would probably put it in a different tier in terms of the types of shows/entertainment it could draw. But not having a D1 school in the immediate area hurts on the...

Did they actually submit a bid? Like you said, a 10k arena is great (and I believe the minimum the NCAA will allow). But typically the biggest part of the deal is a D1 host school sponsoring the tournament. It’s PC in Providence. If you watch the games, you can see “hosted by” and the school...