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Agreed, but there will be the inevitable hotel restaurant and Starbucks that would help activate the street to some degree if they put them on the ground level with entrances from the sidewalk. Edit: Just noted there is a Starbucks in one of the renders on the D Street side. And they put in an...

I'm hoping that someday the BRA will actually require street-level pedestrian renders of buildings so you can get some idea of what these things will look like if you're not a bird. This kind of looks okay, but you can't tell if the ground floor works without a proper streetscape render.

Re: Landmark Center Expansion | Fenway Indeed. It would seem reasonable if they kept the same building heights and footprints and shuffled around the uses, but this change is nothing like what was approved.

Re: Landmark Center Expansion | Fenway How can this be an amendment of the 2014 plan? It's a completely different project! Talk about bait and switch...

I walked through here a couple of times this past weekend and was surprised by how many pedestrian crossing signals didn't work, the complete lack of any pedestrian detour signs to get through the many construction sites blocking sidewalks, and the horrible on-street death lanes for people on...

For a city that just spent billions to eradicate the blight of overhead roads and trains, this seems silly. If they do build it, the stations should be inside buildings, not hovering out in the open. I still want a transit connection from the Seaport to North Station that is faster than walking.

The state won't let the city (or any municipality) impose their own taxes. Give them to DND to redevelop as housing and local small business storefronts. Just the idea of this happening would kick Drucker et al into redeveloping the buildings.

Empty buildings are blight. The BRA should take them by eminent domain.

Lexington is putting in a 1-station Zagster bike share... Bike share pilot planned for Lexington Center http://lexington.wickedlocal.com/news/20170815/bike-share-pilot-planned-for-lexington-center What's the point of a bike share with just one station?

Eventually this project might deserve its own thread: Centre Street Partners Chosen to Complete Phase One of Mildred Hailey Apartment Redevelopment The developer is a partnership between The Community Builders, JPNDC, and Urban Edge.

There's no reason why they couldn't subsidize some local retail. They just weren't required to by the BRA, and these developers only do things that are required to get their permits.

^ Bonobos was recently acquired by Walmart. It's kind of sad that this is turning out to be just another zone of mall stores.

Route 6 in Truro and Wellfleet on the Outer Cape is getting marked bike lanes along a 7 mile stretch: http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170526/project-aims-to-increase-cycle-safety-in-wellfleet-truro As of yesterday, they've finished most of the pavement markings but the bike lane signs are...

On the web site they mention "world-class public transportation" -- not the phrase I would use for the E Line and the #39 bus!

This just in: BPDA Board Approves Plans to Double Size, Add Turf Field at Jackson Square Rec Center The BPDA board approved plans on March 17 that call for a 75,000 square foot recreation center at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Ritchie Street across the street from the Jackson Square...

The Community Center RFP was awarded to the nonprofit Provincetown Commons to redevelop the building as art studios and coworking space: http://commonsptown.org Article in the Cape Cod Times: Provincetown Community Center lease goes to art, business center Article in the Provincetown Banner...

Mooyah Burgers from Texas is planning to open in Jackson Square at the 225 Centre St. building this year: http://www.jamaicaplainnews.com/2017/01/16/mooyah-burger-fries-shakes-coming-to-jackson-square/23086

I don't know if they're succeeding, but they certainly seem to have refocused on offering their bike share as an amenity for property managers, resorts, hotels, and campuses. It looks like a scheme that would work well for small self-contained systems. While Hubway looks incredibly expensive on...

1) It's in an area that desperately needs more housing; 2) Most of the abutting properties are rentals or institutions; 4) The nearby Brookhouse and VA Medical Center buildings are just as tall as this. And the BRA actually ended up doing a whole corridor planning study a few years ago in...

Pretty sure that little parking lots has been there since the late '90s at least. The fence around it went up in the mid-'00s. I used to cut through there every day on my way to work.