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I'm fascinated by this proposal for what it is and how it interacts with the ballpark and neighborhood, and would greatly appreciate it if the group used this thread to discuss the proposal rather than to engage the OP and his standard fare. I will try to give you enough food for thought below...

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium Last month, Boston Landing deeded 71 Guest Street to an affiliate and filed a notice of project change with the BPDA (link to download). Now the office space component of 71 Guest has been pulled from the project website (here's the dead former...

I didn't realize that they got joint development rights with Rosenthal all the way to Parcel 10. That's a straight line to Charlesgate East! Will never be decked all the way there in any of our lifetimes, and never built to a height that disrupts their wind tunnel models of the ballpark's...

OK gang, let's lay off already. If you spend time here often, you shouldn't find these posts out of character and you should appreciate that the poster is making a genuine effort to spark discussion.

Good find, thanks! I wonder how they plan to work that new BU shuttle stop into their existing network. It seems pretty well out of the way of the existing loop between the CRC and the South End.

^Thanks, that's what I was looking at, but right now I only see that they have the Family Theatre building in their directory, and then only by searching for it. None of the other Riverway buildings seem to be included just yet, and nothing in that area is outlined in red. The pin that says...

No, this is Brookline too. Everything on the south side of Comm. Ave. starting at #730 (the former Radio Shack) and going to #1050 (the new Landry's location) is in Brookline, and then the town line ducks back behind all of the Comm. Ave. buildings and stays there until it peels off through one...

So far the only discernible plan has been to store a huge pile of mulch at the end of Blandford by the Pike. I get it, I guess -- not many places on that campus to store mulch, so why not buy a city street? BU doesn't own any of those and probably won't in the next several decades. They have...

Decking steel has been installed over the inbound Yawkey platform. This extends west to the stairs at Beacon Street and east to the station's elevator towers.

Not to simplify things in a project that defies simplicity, but the exact land in question will either be a railyard under construction as a highway, or a completed highway (dispensing with the notion that they would ever just start the station first, which obviously will never occur). It's not...

Encouraging in some respects. But not exactly a reset of the kind that yielded results for GLX, at least not yet. Pollack dropped one paragraph into this that hopefully receives strong pushback, including from the teams that run the revised analysis: Saying you're taking a fresh look at...

^ Brookline Bank slid down a few doors to take the bulk of the Walgreens space, such that their old space on Beacon is now vacant instead. But it's not all bank news in the area, thankfully. The Walgreens space was subdivided into three retail slots, with one on either side of the bank branch...

Missed this in April when BBJ had it: The Brookline location is the former Lady Grace, where Sweetgreen kicked the tires but decided not to open.

This project fills me with optimism for what might be possible elsewhere in the city. The cap looks like something a 1950's graphic artist would have drawn in response to a "Boston in the year 2000" prompt, right alongside several rows of flying cars of course. Give me 15 more please.

To be clear, the Foxborough flourish is from Scalziand. I think TransitMatters would send the trains up the Providence line - which makes sense if this is a relatively cost-controlled proposal, because that gets them to a pre-electrified line that can operate at speed today. That said, this map...

Data, I saw that tidbit about SCR alignment that Jim Aloisi tossed out in Commonwealth over the weekend: https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/time-to-reconsider-s-coast-rail-phased-plan/. Have to admit it blew my mind. I don't recall this approach ever having been considered even by our most...

Even cheaper than the bus lane - and revenue positive at the outset at least - would be committing two bodies down there to writing tickets to all the deliveries and double parkers on that stretch. Each part of the city has its worst places for that kind of nonsense, so I won't say this is the...

Scroll through historical Street View and you can get the whole evolution. A failed (pre-peak-quinoa) b.Good, Cognac Bistro, then the Indian place that has since taken over the Rubin's space near the Allston line. They were mid-renovation on this place when the development idea came along -...

Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision I would have loved to see an appendix with data supporting the notion that trains can be turned faster at South Station. Where this group has had its greatest successes (scrapping the Auburndale design and re-timing the Park...

Worth mentioning that the parking lot MassDOT would have to take in order to extend Malvern north, at 76 Ashford Street, is the ONLY parcel backing up to the Pike/tracks/river between Malvern and Bay State Road that BU doesn't own. So in addition to not committing to any additional dollar amount...