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Centre Street Partners (a joint venture between JPNDC, Urban Edge, & The Community Builders) was designated as the re-developer for the complex last year. Plan is to demo the whole complex, build 625 units, 250 which replace the existing, so a net increase of about 375 units. Parking for 340...

Jamaican Mi Hungry just opened in 225 Centre Street - I hope they can make a go of it! From Jamaica Plain News: https://www.jamaicaplainnews.com/2019/09/30/jamaica-mi-hungry-now-open-in-jackson-square/165280

When they were justifying the retail, all of the studies showed the 70,000 daily commuters who drive by along Columbus Ave. as potential customers. Obviously that hasn't worked out. The rents are also high since it's new construction, so local shops haven't relocated there. Retail would be more...

Well, it looks like Urban Edge has finally abandoned the plans for the recreation center. Too bad, since this was one of the early promises of the redevelopment project to "knit together" the neighborhoods of Roxbury & JP: "...the team behind the project recently determined that the funds...

I was a member of Stony Brook Cohousing, which had a purchase & sale agreement for the Blessed Sacrament Church. The plan was to develop 37 units (4 of those affordable), restore the exterior, and have 1,600 sf of community space in the front of the building. The JPNDC backed out right as we...

Agreed. It's 100% affordable housing, so funding is a big issue. It's very rare to see significantly taller affordable buildings. Even that building near North Station that Related Beal built ("the Beverly") is only 14 stories! If folks are going to complain about missed opportunities for...

Web site for the apartment portion of this complex is live. They're calling it "The Melnea": https://www.livemelnea.com 1-bedroom, 687 sq ft apartments start at $2,625/mo and go up to over $3,500/mo for a 2-bedroom.

Lol. I went to a lot of the meetings that resulted in that lovely PDF. Nice ideas, but unlikely to be very relevant with the current mayor and the BPDA. I'm sure they'd want to do a new study rather than follow a 20-year-old report. It's a lot like the Seaport Public Realm Plan (a contemporary...

The challenge with any kind of overhead transport is the stations. (None of the photos posted so far show any stations!) They need to get people to the ground, and that takes up *lots* of space for platforms, stairways, and elevators unless they're limited to in-building stations (think the...

There's no new headhouse in this plan as far as I know. There is an existing MBTA repair facility that in the original master plan was going to be screened with small shops facing Centre St. The electrical substation at the corner is also expected to stay, since Eversource continues to refuse to...

Askenazy said it would be more local, but their first new tenants were Uniqlo and Sephora, which just increased the generic mall ambiance. I miss the little shops that used to be upstairs in the North & South market buildings... they had unique, local products but were replaced with office space...

MassDOT has their Crash Portal which is easier to use than FARS but doesn't seem to include bike crashes unless they are with a motor vehicle. The data also lags by a couple of calendar years. https://services.massdot.state.ma.us/crashportal/ The site requires Adobe Flash to work, so it can be...

Why can't the city get this level of commitment for affordable units elsewhere in the city?

Police Station | Provincetown, Massachusetts New Police Station design was revealed at a select board meeting this week. It's $4M over budget (50% more than the expected $8M budget) and they haven't started the bid process yet... Provincetown Banner article...

It was called "Auditorium" after the adjacent War Memorial Auditorium, which was renamed the Hynes Auditorium in the late 60s and then updated to Hynes Convention Center when it was renovated & expanded in 1988. So they changed the Green Line stop name then until it became Hynes/ICA (why, I...

Somehow I missed that this is a Samuels & Associates project. That raises my expectations for the final product. The name is unfortunate and the marketing spew on the web site is rather overwrought... https://www.samuelsre.com/property/brynx

And the retail spaces in these new buildings are HUGE. They don't work for small, neighborhood businesses and they're typically built before securing tenants. Even the ones built by nonprofts (like the building at the Blessed Sacrament Church and the one on the corner of Centre and Columbus)...

They're still looking at extending the E Line as far as Canary Sq at the intersection of South Huntington & Centre St. The right-of-way along S Huntington is so wide it can easily accommodate the trains, and they already designed the station stops for it way, way back when the full E Line...

One would think with such poor transit access that they'd do more bike infrastructure on the streets.

Reminds me of a lot of Comfort Inns and cheap Marriott Courtyard hotels that I stayed in when I used to travel for work. One benefit for the tenants: They won't have to look at it when they're inside their units! Too bad its deco inspiration got lost in in the final product.