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Looks like Revelator Coffee of Alabama has acquired Wired Puppy Specialty Coffee & Teas locations in both Boston (Newbury St.) and Provincetown (Commercial St.). They've posted a General Manager job description for the Boston location here: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0d5be73f368dd5b2...

The 350 Bradford St condo project has moved forward, starting with demolition of the existing restaurant... http://provincetown.wickedlocal.com/entertainmentlife/20161118/restaurant-demo-makes-way-for-condos

It's a public pay parking lot that is owned by the same company as the CVS parcel. It's unclear whether CVS is leasing the building or purchasing it at this point.

CVS Pharmacy has submitted a proposal to the town's Historic District Commission for design review. They are looking to open at the location of the Riley's T-shirt shop at 132 Bradford Street, right in the center of town... HDC application...

That's a nice sentiment but the green bike pavement standard that has been adopted in the US makes this very difficult. No one uses green asphalt, and all that green paint is a maintenance nightmare. It may be time to abandon green altogether. There are also ADA issues with texture changes...

Same problem on sections of the SW Corridor bike path -- people walk on it because it's shaded and pleasant compared to the nasty narrow sidewalk along the street with all the car traffic. It's *very* strange here that they put the bike path on the inside and the pedestrians on the outside...

I was glad when they removed the waterfalls at the Copley Sq escalators years ago -- it always smelled like a filthy fish tank over there. Like so many things, it was nice when it first opened but it didn't really work long term.

The program and site plan look reasonable, but that Miami Vice/faux pomo 1990s facade is really unpleasant. ICON usually does better work than this! Nice to see they're proposing a 1:1 ratio of covered bike parking to housing units and a "bicycle work room" for residents on the Arborway side of...

Why is there a City Map kiosk in the median strip??? Another example of the failure of the public realm planning for the Seaport...

They are doing a gigantic renovation project at RCC. Here's what's happening at the parking lot... http://www.rcc.mass.edu/about-us/construction-updates From Monday, August 8, 2016 – January 15, 2017, Parking Lot 1 will be under construction and unavailable for use. This scheduled construction...

That's mostly because the Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council has been doing a lot of technical assistance for towns in its region to adopt Complete Streets policies... http://www.mapc.org/complete-streets-roll Out here on Cape Cod, we've had had no support from the Cape Cod Commission to...

I certainly hope there will be some way for local municipalities to tell these autonomous cars that they are not allowed on local streets. If they can't operate on winding, weird, narrow, 17th-century roads, they shouldn't operate there. Could you imagine trying to take one of these things down...

Interesting that they are using elevators to get the cars to the parking floors. But disappointed that they are trying to do 50% of their affordable units off-site. The whole point of inclusionary development is to include the units in the development. Should be fun to see what the neighborhood...

At least it's not another orange dorm tower -- or has the BRA reserved that color scheme for Huntington Ave.?

It sounds like they're closing it to bicycles as well... anyone know if that's the case? I'm not going to be able to make it over there today, but I'd be interested to hear how they staffed the closing points. Are there traffic cops at every intersection like they have on St Catherine in Montreal?

No, everything with the BPL address on it from before about 2003 has the 666 Boylston address.

When did the BPL change its street address? It used to be 666 Boylston St., which was beloved by conspiracy theorists, and now it says 700 over the new doors.

Did you know that you don't need to wait years for tree cover? Post Office Square park has a number of mature specimen trees that are on "permanent loan" from the Arnold Arboretum. That's one of the things that make it a nice place. It even has parking ramps for the garage that are so well...

As an office park it's fine, but as a city neighborhood it's dreadful. No school, no library, no active parks for children (or adults). The public realm is dreary, uninspired, and feels like corporate function space. Transportation planning for the area was half-baked from the beginning, and...

Of course we should! They would never do this with a car lane!