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Well that certainly does look like a game-changer. Excited to see how the town progresses.

Agree on the former part of your statement, not sure about on the later. Cranmore owns the rights to develop trails up to the peak that sits just behind and above the current summit: This would give it one of the bigger vertical drops in New Hampshire. Combine a mountain expansion with the...

I've always wished that Cranmore would expand and become a more significant mountain, because it's just about the only ski mountain in New England that sits directly on an actual village (and a really nice and walkable one at that). If we're ever going to have something that resembles an actual...

But I'm not sure he'll even get that much support for Newton and Brookline, both of which are pretty progressive these days (they both voted for the millionaire's tax, e.g.). There definitely are pockets of people in each city who rail against densification and bike lanes in their own backyards...

I hadn't even considered this, but you're right, this will be a huge factor. Wu will, rightly, position herself as a bulwark against Trumpism and that message is really going to resonate. Meanwhile, Jonathan Kraft's father is one of Trump's only personal friends in the entire world. He's paid...

If he is, he's going about it the wrong way. He's going to have to run to the right against Wu in Boston and attack her on several issues that are extremely popular with the Democratic voting base, so this campaign will probably sink his chance at ever being the Dem nominee for governor. He...

It may be, and I expect him to have a strong showing against Wu there, given that it was one of her weakest neighborhoods against Essaibi-George (albeit Wu still won it). But Essaibi-George's 35% is probably Kraft's ceiling. He'll pick up Boston's Republicans and conservative white dems, but I...

I think the age of the respective teams is the biggest factor. Professional soccer in Europe took off well before the age of the automobile, while professional football in America took off well after (and, obviously, the automobile has simply never been as important in Europe as it is here)...

You do know who he's pandering to, you said it yourself. He's pandering to suburbanites who don't even live and vote in the city, because that's what he is and those are the only people he interacts with.

Great thread, I love discussing stadium and ballpark architecture. Just to get some conversation going, there's something that's always amazed me as a soccer fan: despite the fact that soccer fields and football fields are almost exactly the same size as each other, soccer stadia outside North...

Bingo. Davis is already a near-perfect urban environment. I'm all for housing and height in general, but I don't want to saddle the neighborhood with all the loading docks, garages, and national retail chains that will inevitably result if we turn Davis into Kendall. By all means, build three...

That's going to be hideous.

For all the residential that's been built around the ballpark in recent years, this might be the first building that actually provides views of the playing field.

Cooiidge is in great shape right now. A wonderful and wide variety of small businesses and a noticeable lack of big chain stores.

This could probably be it's own thread but, for a cold weather city, I actually think Boston sucks as a winter city. Cities in places like Germany, Canada, and Scandinavia do so much more to promote enjoyment of winter. I'm talking about things like man-made sledding hills with bars for the...

It's one of the best built spaces in Boston, and definitely the most underrated.

I agree, the street-level sucks. Generic oversized glass lobby with character-less retail that will likely be nothing more than a little coffee counter that closes at 5 PM. The East Passage could be cool, but overall I'm disappointed.

We're only about 30-40 years removed from a time when the US Mens National Team was made up of part-time players and the only soccer that was on TV at all in the US was broadcast in Spanish. Today, an American is the best player on one of the biggest clubs in the world and NBC pays the Premier...

If the deal falls through, the reality is that the stadium is never going to be renovated -- certainly not for just $30 million. It's going to continue to degrade for another generation and then be bulldozed. I would be probably fine with it ultimately being bulldozed! I would prefer the park...

God, I hate everything about this. Odd, old little gems like Matthews are what give cities magic.