Search results

Either way, this location should take priority because its better situated, following the dollar signs is probably a pretty good approximation of what will get the most units built by directing them towards the best locations first.

As a general point, I don't really like always pushing new developments towards former industrial land. It's definitely more politically viable, and maybe Boston is particularly drawn to brownfield development since we got the seaport without tearing down too many established communities. But...

I feel like if they just polished up the facade it would look quite attractive to anyone.

Looks beautiful. Would absolutely love to see another 20 of these around Davis and Porter.

My favorite suburb of Boston :love: ty for updates

When I see this kind of stuff, I always think about a point that local economist Ed Glaeser makes about nonlocal effects. The marginal person who can't live in Boston will likely move to a suburb or new construction in North Carolina so the good of decreasing local emissions is offset.

I've always thought that it would be nice to enclose these areas at the entrances to use as shelters, kinda like how the D branch through Newton and Brookline has a mini shelter for the fare machines. Additional bonus being the possibility of adding fare gates back into the designs without...

Well first, New York is hardly a paragon of affordable housing. While I am willing to have a rational consideration of regulations for reasons of safety or whatever, I think it is a terrible idea for government to dictate what citizens can do with the property they own. At the end of the day...

Why not? Because it doesn't satisfy an architectural connoisseur's aesthetic preferences? Real people who live in these buildings love them, look at the premium they're willing to pay for one over a room in a mid century brick building. Rationalizing housing prices through mass production are...

I've never been a believer in this 'build it once' philosophy of housing stock. If we become comfortable with the idea that we can continually tear down and rebuild we can edge closer to a healthier market like in Japan. Being unreasonably attached to individual structures is part of what got us...

Thanks for the article, I think it puts into a single cogent piece a lot of arguments I've had with people over the last few years. Everyone in these states should be having a sputnik moment over the fact that deep red states are doing much much better than we are on housing and green energy. I...

I'm often filled with a sense of envy/bewilderment we do so much worse than Texas and many red states in affordable housing and renewable energy. I wish we were able to think big and just build the way they do but alas

Where in the dev cycle is this exactly, is there a chance to push for C/D through one of the public comment systems and have any small influence at all.

Kinda makes you think what all these new lab/office/residential complexes going up would look like if developers could propose the maximally profitable balance regardless of what's likely to get approved

I wanted to look up how much $100m would be relative to worker pay, and damn somehow I didn't know MGH was this big lol. $10b per year just on worker salaries