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Although its sort of funny that the further "social experiment" of Harbor Point is successful and now the model for how we handle public housing development. The funny part being the idea that developments should be mixed income and contain public services is less an experiment than a no-duh...

Re: was bulldozing columbia point a mistake Everyone should pick up A Decent Place to Live. It's a great history of Columbia/Harbor Point. TL;DR version: funding cuts left it in near ruins, it had to be torn down, and the area's reinvention served as a major learning lesson for affordable...

Framingham tho... Seriously, was just out at the Jack's Abbey Brewery. That area around the old Dennison Mill is crazy. You've got the old mill buildings, easy walking into downtown Framingham, and commuter rail stops. Plus, tons of low slung, single story light industrial, commercial, and...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End McMorrow wrote this back in 2014. For what it's worth though, he's now a big shot in Baker's Econ Dev team. Not sure if it actually signals anything, but maybe we finally have enough adults in the room who look...

Remember when he at least didn't hijack every thread on the board?

And just like that, hundreds of Bain consultants popped boners. .

Seems like the warehouse's problem could be solved with... I dunno, a spreadsheet maybe? But sure, let's privatize the whole thing.

Soooooo many straw men. Whiggy, when do you want to bulldoze Boston and turn it into a parking lot? Also, when did you start beating your wife?

Re: North-South Rail Link On a similar note: Seth Moulton, they're canceling the Lynn ferry. Please go into Hulk mode. The North Shore needs you.

It's funny, CityLab had a similar article recently. Slightly different take though. http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/06/what-we-know-about-inclusionary-zoning-thus-far/485072/ TL;DR: the research leans towards inclusionary zoning not significantly increasing development costs (which I think...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End NorthendWaterfront.com has a letter from some West End residents concerning the project. If you want a good cringe read from some completely tone deaf West Enders about their collective persecution complex, have fun...

Except mass transit has a capacity a couple orders of magnitude larger than roads, so the same induced demand argument doesn't really apply.

Re: Parcel 9 - The Greenway Plus, the market blew away the monetary projections for the opening months and are now going 7 days a week starting in July.

Re: Parcel 9 - The Greenway It shows a pretty strange understanding of business economics and the benefits of clustering. I mean.... there's also the Millennium Hotel right around the corner, so is he going to call off the hotel too?

It needs the McKim Treatment, aka blast out the add-on bunker at the bottom to open the building up to the street. Edit: Yikes! Yeah, Justin's correct below. The Johnson Treatment is what I meant.

Not sure we even need to build new lines for those corridors. Allston-Waltham and Assembly-Chelsea can both be served by pre-existing commuter rail if we ever got off our buts on the Indigo buildout. Even JP-Mattapan is probably better served by full build on the Fairmount, which has been an...

Just as long as its working in time for my annual drive to Hartford for Thanksgiving, then I'll be happy.

All those brave John Galts out in Dover and Weston sure do seem to love development. Think they'll put up a 1000 footer out there?

It makes as much sense as, "they already own and just want their own property values to increase," which is crazy because the best thing for your own property values is a growing city. No, neither of these make sense. What's going on is an Occam's Razor: people just hate change. They hate change...

And yet they manage to write in complete sentences with proper grammar, punctuation, and formatting. Try using a period.