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You're getting way ahead of yourself with that 80/20 wfh split. Work from home has been with us on a widespread basis for 20 years. It's not new. If companies could truly save millions by converting to total wfh, don't you think they would have done so already? I also don't so how shared...

I'd also add that as it relates to demand for this and other similar buildings in Boston, its pretty common for a married couple of professionals to be earning 200-250K apiece in a wide variety of industries found in the area (law, finance, biotech, medical, even academia, the MBTA ;), etc)...

You people complain way too much! Nobody trying to build over the Pike is going to put up the Taj Mahal during Phase I. The money and ROI just isn't there. Nothing wrong with this development which has livened up a dead space.

If anybody has a meme handy about beating a dead horse, now would be a good time to post it! ;)

Couldn't see the actual workers. So my next question is if the developer is out of money how is construction proceeding? Are they working for free?

So I'm a little confused. Is work currently going on at this site or not?

Agreed. I too appreciate stow's insider knowledge and promise I'll keep this on point as it relates to Winthrop Square, but... Several recessions ago the latest corporate management fad was you need to operate with the cheapest workforce possible. That lead to outsourcing overseas, cutting...

I appreciate stoweker's insider knowledge but he's using it to pimp a preconceived opinion that there will soon be a mass exodus of jobs and people to cheap places. It's like if someone worked on the sports book at a Vegas casino and knew a lot about that business, but then they kept telling...

Can you define quality of life as being better? I get the cheaper part but again if cheaper was the end all be all we'd all be living in Arkansas right now. I'll counter with two points: 1) from 2005-2017 90% of high tech jobs were created in 5 cities - Seattle, SF, San Jose, SD and Boston...

A couple of thoughts: 1) Isn't capital drying up everywhere? As in its not a Winthrop Square development issue but a countrywide issue unless a project already has a major tenant lined up. So why wouldn't this developer or any other one not just take a pause for 6 or 9 months and then restart...

This is the problem when you get citizens groups involved. I'm not saying don't reach out for community input, but generally the professional NIMBY's want you to build the Taj Mahal while at the same time not exposing them to any inconveniences in regards to construction or traffic. This...

I'll say again, as long as graft and NIMBY payoffs are part of the cost of doing business don't expect a Taj Mahal type development to be built anywhere in the city. You can have an expensive design, or you can ask for $200M for affordable housing, park maintenance, and other such add ons, but...

A few thoughts: 1) 40M unemployed is horrific but isn't this mostly confined to the retail and services sectors? As in the typical office space worker has yet to be canned, or if they have been furloughed (airlines and aircraft manufactures for example) there's some hope of them coming back...

Not specific to Winthrop Square but I reject the notion that we're all going to be working from home permanently now so everyone might as well pack up and move to Mississippi because its cheaper to live down there. If you're trying to work from home with young children in the house, good Lord...

I don't have a dog in this fight but this portion : "Third, involve the local residents by paying more than mere lip-service to public engagement throughout the development process. While this absolutely won’t guarantee that all sides will be happy, a transparent process stands a better chance...

The more losses the professional NIMBY class suffers, the more extreme they're going to get. They've been getting their asses kicked this entire cycle. If the traffic argument no longer works, God only knows what they'll come up with next.

If I had to read between the lines here, it seems that some professional NIMBY organization (looking at you Amos and the CLF) reached out to Vikki with a welcome to Boston call and then convinced her with a one sided presentation that obstructing the garage project had overwhelming public...

So...now that Sanders got crushed can we go ahead and build this thing as is? ;)

That's awesome news. NIMBY's piss off! Yet another loss for the build nothing crowd. If they can't even win in Newton....

Its a ridiculous standard based on a mix of nostalgia and fantasyland. Its why NIMBY's tend to be old people romanticizing their youth and wanting the pace of development to conform to whatever point in time they're stuck in. If someone thinks the affordable housing % should be upped a little...