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Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport That assumes people are actually living in the condo units. I expect a lot of them at these astronomical prices will be investment properties that aren't primary residences. It will be interesting to see actual data on the number of people who end...

I'm amazed this design made it through the historic district review. Nice that they saved the stone, but that Tremont St facade is rather odd given all the good design of its neighbors...

I don't get it when people complain about boats in a harbor. The Provincetown Marina folks have taken a disintegrating, underused pier and turned it into a nice harborfront marina: http://ptownmarina.com/ Both Boston and Provincetown have waterfronts with a huge amount of non-water-dependent...

This is one of those products that seems nifty, but then you dig into it... the Kickstarter price was $85 for a blind and now they're selling them for $250 each. But they're not in production yet, and a recent update they posted said they're having trouble sourcing the panels. It also appear...

The 48 Boylston St project is just a little 5-story building that will wrap around the existing Union building. It was approved back in 2015. BDPA info: http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/48-boylston-street Small project review submittal...

What's with those weird street lights? They look like leftovers from the late-1980s po-mo design of the original Prudential Center arcades.

I've been digging down into the details of how the scores were calculated and there are a lot of questionable assumptions. I'll use Provincetown as an example since it's easier to parse: Provincetown scored a Ridership rating of 1.6, but according to PeopleForBikes' own data, it has a 14.3%...

PeopleForBikes City Ratings PeopleForBikes released their first-ever City Ratings this week. It's a more data-driven approach than the Bike League's Bicycle Friendly Community Awards, but it looks like it needs some work. Here's how Massachusetts towns stacked up on the 5-star rating scheme...

You gotta love it when they close a sidewalk to build a gerbil tube and don't provide any alternative way to walk around the construction zone.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Louisiana already sponsors Blue Bikes in New Orleans, so it feels like an expansion of that brand: https://bluebikesnola.com/ That system uses a different operator, though, with Social Bicycles rather than Motivate.

The only thing I wish they'd done differently is put actual fan lights in those arched windows on the second floor.

The cheap cement pavers are far more tacky than the marble cladding.

Most permit parking areas have a few 2-hour visitor spaces, but you can't park all day. The justification for resident parking in some of the outer neighborhoods is often to stop commuters from out of town from using on-street parking and taking the T in to work.

I guess you can do a nice facade when the units sell for $2.6 M to $7.5 M each.

The Herald reports this morning that developer New Urban Partners is looking to replace a parking lot and a triple decker at 9-11 Burney St. with a 31-unit building with 6 parking spaces: http://www.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2018/01/31_unit_development_eyed_for_mission_hill

Re: clearing snow from sidewalks And Medford has a new sidewalk plow, which you can see in this Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/medfordsquare/permalink/10156112943102806/

There's a major ground floor reconfiguration happening with this. It removes the gigantic car entrance for the hotel and converts it to retail. And it looks like that rooftop "lantern" tenant amenity will be pretty amazing. I wonder if there will be any public access...

Re: Seaport Parcels M1-M2 | Seaport Sq. | Seaport I wonder if Regent will stick with this project. They backed out of the Battery Wharf residences & hotel back in 2008... http://archive.boston.com/business/articles/2008/06/11/hotel_operator_leaves_luxury_waterfront_project/ The building is...

I hope they rethink the awful angled parking proposed for Middlesex Ave. They really should put the bike lane adjacent to the sidewalk and then the parking at the curb. Overall it's a rather bike-hostile design since they truncate Kensington Ave., which is the only way to get under 93 :(

There's a *lot* of dead street wall in that design, though, which is rather anti-urban and not very safe for pedestrians.