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There was an early proposal for a design concept from January. The link to the proposal does not work anymore but it was a mixed use 6 story. Basement garage with 24 parking spots, retail/restaurant on the ground floor and office on the second and 27 total residential units on floors 3 through...

Re: The New Office Thread Inner belt in Somerville would offer an out of the box area. Not being a greenfield site owned by many different owners, there would be challenges acquiring the land, and the train tracks for the Lowell line may not be ideal but that could addressed. But, it is better...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett Looks like the budget signed includes a path to allow Wynn to server booze until 4AM. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts/articles/2017-07-19/senate-leader-opposes-4-am-last-call-for-casinos

If by group he means mutual fund owning humans, then he is technically correct.

The current variance they are requesting with regards to block 8 has to do with delaying signage approval because they do not know what type of signage that will be required by the future and yet to be determined tenants. The changes to the PUD in those years were mainly minor and did not...

I believe they are maxed out on how many housing units they can build in the entire development based on the PUD. Otherwise the affordable housing requirement ordinance in Somerville allows for bonus "units" in developments that include affordable housing. Basically increases the allowed density...

In regards to Block 8. Somerville's Board of Alderman and developer are squaring off on the change in affordability housing requirements. FRIT made some veil threats that they might have to delay the project and revaluate the economics of the building if they do not get a waiver on recent...

A bunch of new documents for Block 8 and block 5B were submitted to Somerville and will go before the board on April 20th. Plans and updated renders of the building can be found at the site below. http://archive.somervillema.gov/departments/planning-board/reports-and-decisions

Re: North-South Rail Link Knowing that a train leaves south station every 10 minutes and gets you to Woburn would be a huge sell. This frequency would convert many drivers from 93 to park at Anderson and ride the train. My dad has been doing the commute down 93 to south station for over 15...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Chapter 91 Regs are different because they guarantee public access to shore and water ways across Massachusetts, just not in Boston.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I do not understand the rationale of why the shadow law is a state law, when it is specific to Boston. Are the areas under the law managed by the state?

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium The argument that the public should not pay for stadiums because rich people do not need tax breaks to fund the stadiums does not consider the realities of supply and demand. Sport teams are a de facto oligopoly which limits their supply, and...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District What about all those pesky trees in the common that cast shadows? A lot of the "new shadow" area already would have shadows from the trees when the sun angle is low.

Those comments are just trolling the mayor's hypocrisy over Wynn's traffic when he did little to nothing about traffic mitigations from all of Assembly Row.

I did not dispute the fact that the planes are on narrower path. My point is that the increase in complaints is near meaningless statistic because in all practicality they changed the measurement of complaints from one time period to the next. They advocated the public to complain and...

The complaints have jumped because that is the time when those cities started to ask their residents to complain about flight noise and made it easier to complain. Somerville even pushed its residents to download an app that listened at night for planes, so they could complain about planes while...

When I was a kid, my family moved into a new development. Every lot but a few were built and sold before the bottom fell out in 91. On one of these lots, a house sat half finished for 5 years before the local developer finished and sold it when the market recovered. The town could not do...

Stopping cars from cutting in last second from I93N to 128S in the morning would be a start. I am not sure if they could eat the right lane for a separated zipper merge, or if that would just push the backup elsewhere. Once in a blue moon the state police will sit at that exit and pull over...

FRIT do not, but Somerville has put money toward a preliminary study to plan a better infrastructure and road design to spur development of the rest of the area. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/12/02/somerville-wants-double-size-assembly-row-project/wT2VW8O4DQv2Spw1O9zYcJ/story.html...

Re: Retail Development | 198 Hanover Street | North End From what I seen, some use it for temporary parking because I believe it is technically "closed" off from vehicles. The Juicery is a smoothie place in the building there and I see people park there run in and run out. The plaza with the...