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To be fair, a school district of Boston's size in Texas would be spending 3-4 times this on a football stadium and probably doing it several times. $91 million for one stadium for all the city's high schools isn't ridiculous, but I agree the money could be better spent (including on athletic...

Well, they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a high-capacity circulating road system. It's not designed to be a busway... Whenever I'm at Logan, traffic honestly seems fine, and I'm nearly always seeing it from the window of a Silver Line bus.

Without getting too far from the mission of this particular message board, I'm not sure I see that as being the issue in the NFL that it is for, say the Red Sox. I don't think the Pats have ever been well under the salary cap... Now, Kraft did take heat last offseason (and presumably more...

Especially when you're a rebuilding team in a high-tax state. I wonder if its also at least partially about flexibility on the interior - the functions that will be in this building are mostly offices, meeting rooms, training rooms, etc. All rectangular rooms of indefinite size with movable...

Actually, very much not. Scape was pressured into promising them space in the new development, and in the community meeting notes they mention that the owners of the Burren are very actively engaged, even beyond them wanting to bring the current business back as much as possible. In the Burren's...

Not to mention that unless Trump crashes the economy, it will always be cheaper to do the work now than 10 years from now.

Link for community group meeting notes: And to the presentation within those notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U93kCBOPR_uToa19l274cDSffTccsa-r/view They do make a case for the streetwall being cut up - that it will provide a deeper pedestrian space and opportunities for outdoor...

Those player surveys really do tend to get owners' attention, probably because all the free agents (and their agents) see them. The Pats can't afford to look any worse to potential free agents during the rebuild. Thing is, the Revs facility is actually way more distinctive architecturally than...

And all without a dime of public money.

Some updates on the traffic planning: https://s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema-live/s3fs-public/2024-11/CummingsSt20-23_ZP24-000046_Applicant_FollowUpMemo_Drawings_20241127.pdf With the height on these buildings, maybe someday we can rebuild the Stop and Shop lot taller and build a pedestrian...

It's all about controlling the revenue. The Celtics are tenants in the Garden and the Bruins make the lion's share of the money there. If it penciled out for the Celtics to build their own arena (without public subsidy, of course), a new ownership group might well consider it. A lot of shared...

More housing is good, but I wish this defined the corner a bit more instead of speaking to it with courtyards. If we aren't going to realign the Pike on to Birmingham Parkway to facilitate a North Beacon Street exit, at least the corner should feel like an urban corner.

I'm sorry, but saying that the people who work at MassDOT knowingly kill people in the name of traffic throughput is disgusting. You are effectively accusing them of manslaughter. "Killed by a Traffic Engineer" may be the figurative title of a book, but you're way, way over the line.

I understand the ideological nature of what you're saying, but State DOTs are REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW to pursue Vision Zero and report on their progress. It's slander to suggest that MassDOT isn't doing that, however much you and the authors of the thinkpieces and books you read think it isn't...

I can promise you that MassDOT, like every DOT in the country, is incredibly serious about pursuing zero fatalities on our roads. People may disagree on which design decisions best pursue that goal.

I realize you may be referring mostly to the permitting process, in which case fair criticism, but those of us on here saying this doesn't fit in Davis aren't picking and choosing. We're saying that on a macro scale Davis should not be accommodating massing like this. From any development. All...

Thank you for posting that! It looks like a very well-done effort, though that's an awful lot of height and density for a neighborhood that will have no transit but busses until we get 15-minute Urban Rail (and even that pales next to light rail or heavy rail transit). That would be the downtown...

I appreciate that you live there, and I don't disagree with your general point, but it's not "playing SimCity Mayor" to argue that different neighborhoods can accommodate different building forms. That's called "Urban Planning", and one of the principles of that discipline is building and...

Can you build a real neighborhood on a highway interchange?

I'm the opposite of a Nimby here. I'd be perfectly happy if this were built in Central Square (though not so much in Inman) - no different than Market Central. PLEASE put this in my backyard, rather than putting it in Davis. Put it at Riverside where I grew up. There are so many places in Boston...