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The line about marathon runners is mine, so I'm coming back in to say "no, not really seriously." More of a statement of fact than idolatry to note that on that one day in April, thousands of runners will see that sign from way down Beacon and will start kicking to the finish way too soon. My...

If they build 8 stories on that corner, and unless the setback is improbably deep, it seems like points west (i.e. the marathoners' view coming up Beacon Street) would lose their line of sight to the sign. Then again, they're probably supposed to lose that view when Fenway Center Phase 2 happens...

SITE WORK *cue the Ron Paul gif*

Also note that any development of those Children's parcels will be complicated by the fact that the Green Line tunnel between Kenmore and Fenway runs underneath them, in a more or less diagonal line from the portal at Miner St. to the intersection of Beacon and Maitland. The tunnel does go under...

Mild correction: MassDOT owns that parcel, and the Red Sox are a taxpaying lessee for their use of the parcel for gameday parking. Not sure how MASCO fits into the mix, but I'm pretty sure they use the parcel for parking appurtenant to the LMA shuttle outside of gamedays, so there must be some...

Don't forget that Wheelock also owns this building on the Longwood Mall and has a president's residence and some other housing nearby on Kent Street. Wheelock put those latter assets on the market recently, and not sure whether they found a buyer or would pull them from the market for this...

Brookline Bank is moving a few doors down to the corner space in the S.S. Pierce building in Coolidge Corner (vacated by Walgreens in 2015). Posters in the door as of today call for a Spring 2017 opening. An unnamed midsize burger chain is eyeing one of the other spaces in the building, says...

Re: 8-10 Waldo Street Coolidge Corner Brookline Relevant to the discussion, though better suited for another thread if more information is available: this is not the only 40B proposal for Coolidge Corner that would go tall. Back in August, the Tab had info about a 14-story proposal that would...

Re: 8-10 Waldo Street Coolidge Corner Brookline The 40b question deserves some serious coverage, too. Haven't they been hovering at 9 percent for a couple years now with a large volume of proposals in the pipeline? Don't know the details of how CHR operates, but it sure seems important.

Re: 8-10 Waldo Street Coolidge Corner Brookline Lololol it's horrible. Tell you what though, whatever happens here, if it goes tall it'll be bad, guaranteed. Everything in Brookline taller than Pelham Hall (foreground right in the render) is awful. The town's current tall buildings are...

Some kind of a co-op? It shows a single owner on city assessing but there are units for sale on the real estate websites. I was curious enough to look it up because back in the day I almost got to see a rental listing in there. Moved faster than my slow ass, alas.

Newton's new transportation strategy includes the selection of a bike sharing service provider in the next 18 months, per the Globe. Will they Hubway or won't they?

Caffe Nero adding two locations in Brookline - 1 Harvard Street in Brookline Village and 1633 Beacon Street in Washington Square (formerly 7-11). Sourced this off the Planning Board calendar while trawling around for info on the former Coolidge Corner Walgreens (where there is light activity but...

^Thanks for the additional insight, Lrfox. Filling in some helpful blanks and bringing me back to earth where needed. Was interesting to hear that Pacheco (a Taunton official) was screaming bloody murder about the Middleborough option while at least one FR person (Ken Fiola in the FR Office of...

I just talked about this latest SCR news with a friend who went to school at UMass Dartmouth and has been pretty well plugged into the South Coast political scene over the years. I asked him why they wouldn't just accept a phased build to a Taunton park-and-ride like F-Line and others have...

This guy drives me up a wall. At least finally he invited some big kids to sit at the table with him. If a legitimate developer is saying that this phasing is the way it has to go, then it's easier for me to buy than if Rosenthal says so. And stepping back to look at the big picture for a...

Thanks, Scipio. I followed the link you provided, and nothing was mentioned in the larger document about a potential crosswalk. Everyone should check out those plans on Scipio's post, though, if you haven't seen them yet. So it looks like the western end of the project site (per MassDOT's...

Does anyone know where to access a fuller set of plans? Particularly curious to know whether they plan to add a legal pedestrian street crossing at Naples Rd. just inbound from Packard's Corner.

A little more color on this proposal is in this article from last month: Brookline girds to fight housing plan near high school Highlights include -- It's a 40B and Brookline is apparently almost maxed out on 40B (nearing the 10% threshold for affordable housing) Neighborhood opposition...