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I am confident the football team will allow other sports to use the facility; or perhaps I should phrase that, I'm confident the athletic department will insist on sharing. However, I am also confident that the football team is the driving factor here, and will almost certainly get first dibs...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail If you play around with Google maps, you can find an old right of way extending west from New Bedford, less than a half mile north of I-195, then over near Fall River it crosses under and is south of the highway as they approach Watuppa Pond. It looks...

I certainly didn't think you were bashing BC. I can't tell from your posted pic what your alma mater is, but there's a lot of that sort of thing going around. Holy Cross has a huge new facility in process that includes an indoor practice field large enough for a full-length football field...

The football team is definitely the main "customer" as they desperately need this facility to be even remotely competitive in the ACC football facilities arms race (they could also use a new coach, but that's a subject for a different blog). However, I'm sure other teams will be able to use it...

That's useful to know, thanks. I'll nudge my optimism back up a notch on the equipment front.

Jaysus. In the 16 years I've been riding the Green Line, I had developed some modest optimism. They relaid all that trackbed and tracks on the D line, cut all those trees that ought never have been allowed to grow in the D line ROW, the repair they did on that massive flood blow-out a few...

I agree the forum's discussions have degraded to the point the ban hammer may be necessary. Un-policed forums inevitably degrade. I was a bit surprised to see Suffolk 83, whose posts I generally respect, sweep stick n move into the list of worst offenders. I'm sure I can go back and find...

These things are fun to envision. Even when I disagree with them or don't see them as feasible (the case here), thinking through exactly why I don't see them as feasible helps me get to a better understanding of what's going on. I reiterate that I hope you're right about the parcels where...

I understand that lease payments are not taxes. My company has lots of investments in properties on ground leases (usually where the landowner is a housing authority and some sort of mixed-income privately developed apartments are on it). Sometimes the real estate taxes are paid by the Ground...

I’m taking the liberty to rearrange your quote a bit; I’m not intending to alter your thoughts, rather to organize my response. Wait, if I’m a developer, I’m paying lease payments for the deck that I’m not on plus real estate taxes? I get your concept that the deck is the enabler of these new...

Kind of interesting looking from an abstract perspective. It's not really thru Chinatown, but I quibble. Setting side a bunch of other severe hurdles, just the deck part of this looks less likely to get through than any of the previous proposals that have croaked. In your proposed...

Very interesting massing. However, there's lots of shallow tunnels under the plaza, not just the main green line extending on towards Haymarket, but the Brattle Loop too. Putting towers there would be nearly as daunting as over the Pike. Whenever I play the mental game of "fill in the plaza...

I like it a lot, too. The day I was there was cloudier than when Beeline took his pics, and it was pretty hard to read what was going on from any distance; specifically, I couldn't tell those were people in lines. As I got closer and could discern the people, it looked great. In Beeline's...

So will the brokers assigned the task of selling those units. [/sarcasm] I see that yesterday the City filed suit against the developers for the failure to disclose what they knew when selling units in this tower. So I retract what I said yesterday about the City being in turtle mode. MT...

You can't read anything into mutual accusations of fraud. The first legal filings will include not just fraud but a laundry list of other torts and the kitchen sink for good measure. Half of it will be pure fluff and the lawyers from both sides will know that. In the background, not only...

^^ Thanks, F-Line. Just one more thing I need to get better up to speed on. But I'm glad there's room for tracks plus trail, having both would be great.

I am shocked, shocked, that such a document would not be on line where I can find it easily. A lack of transparency, right here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? It is an outrage.

Does the Lessor have any opt-out clauses within that 99 years?

I’d like to probe on this “gimme” a little bit. I’m cutting/pasting your quote in slightly different order. I take your word for it that planners saw this spur off D to Needham as imminent back then, but this is getting to be a long time since it was in anyone’s forebrain outside the rail...

I agree that it's a hell of a challenge, but think you're exaggerating somewhat. 1) I haven't seen a breakdown of what percentage of shoppers / worker in this district are Newton / Needham locals versus from farther afield. But us locals know that there are other ways in and out: Oak Street...