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Feel free to file this as too tangential, as it's bureaucratic and software infrastructure as opposed to steel and concrete infrastructure, but indirectly it has a profound effect on the urban environment: Massachusetts' vaccine rollout. In 2020, states like New York built out clunky but mostly...

150 Cross St Parking Lot Parcels 25/26 on Kneeland St that no one wants As an aside, perhaps in the future this award could be widened to include most underutilized lots, in order to avoid the same highly visible empty lots being proposed year after year? I can think of a lot of spots that...

DOT's 2020 BUILD Grants. Unsurprisingly, the Trump admin's grants heavily favored rural and suburban highway projects over public transit. In the Boston area, that meant selecting an I-495/I-95 interchange project in Hopkinton over Blue Hill Ave BRT in Dorchester...

While Don Chiafaro's plans to redevelop the harbor garage have been cooking for awhile (the original harbor garage thread was started in 2006), we were not blessed with a name or designs for the Pinnacle at Central Wharf until Jan 2020. In my opinion, the obvious winner.

I'm saddened to realize that the new King Open/Cambridge Street Upper School was completed in the fall of 2019 (and didn't receive any nominations last year!), and I assume is therefore ineligible for this year's nominations. The first school in MA to produce net zero carbon emissions and the...

The first two proposals :love:. The Urbanica proposal rebuilds the pier, which the Charlestown Bridge article says would be expensive, and is also all affordable. Seems difficult to believe that that pencils.

Stephanie Pollack appointed to deputy administrator of FHWA, and acting administrator until one is confirmed by the Senate. At MassDOT, Jamey Tesler, who is currently the head of the RMV, will serve as acting transportation secretary. New England pols are a hot commodity in this admin...

I keep getting stuck on how this proposal is essentially a 2020s reissue of the Church Park Apartments across the street on Mass Ave. The concrete has been swapped out for precast panels, and this is 500’ long vs 750’ long, but in massing and presence I believe they will have a similar...

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I'd like to nominate my personal favorite, and one of the most stately Romanesque Revival buildings out there, The Grain Exchange. And also the Berkeley Building/Old John Hancock. Few buildings exude "Boston" more than this one, and knowing how to decode the weather beacon is one of the great...

Early contender for an ArchBoston 2021 Worst Completed Project award.

Some interesting additional details about 1463-1469 Dorchester Avenue in UniveralHub: https://www.universalhub.com/2021/29-unit-affordable-apartment-building-approved All 29 units are between 400 and 450 sq feet, as the building is partaking in the city's 2 year Compact Living Pilot. Also...

I believe you’re correct that he can line item veto just this section, but at that point it is sent back to the legislature and since we’ve just entered a new legislative session the bill would have to be refiled to be considered again.

I tweeted about it last week, mainly because I'm still trying to figure out what constitutes a "reasonably sized district". Most of the proposal is encapsulated in this paragraph of H.5250: If a "reasonably sized district" is in fact reasonably sized, MA will have managed to stealthily pass a...

You're of course right that urban highways add value and are likely necessary for reverse commuters. Zooming out further, one could point out that the job sprawl you're describing is yet another negative externality of these highways, but I digress...

Couldn’t love this more @JumboBuc. Nothing get’s me excited like an extremely straightforward market-based solution which balances fixing the underlying problem and fairness to existing stakeholders. So much better than City Council’s proposals of picking winners and losers on a neighborhood...

PNF: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/g3gzxlu637sxspp67rk54338tqqvja67 Upon a quick glance, doesn't seem like any big differences from the LOI. Excited for this much affordable housing to come online right here.

Wu seems better on transit than on housing in my opinion, but her campaign website at least pays lip service to the need for more housing construction: (Bolding mine). Overall, her focus seems to be on renter protections and capital-A Affordable housing, but she's always seemed to understand...

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I’m really excited for this one. Nice materials and I think it’s going to give Brookline Ave a considerably more dramatic canyon effect.