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The old gas station on Broadway (the triangular lot bound by Clark, Market, and Broadway) was finally torn down earlier this year. The website says this will be 5 "Executive Townhomes Available Furnished or Unfurnished for Short or Long Term Lease." I wish it would be denser - this is the...

Related to a conversation this week about the DTX Barnes & Noble remaining vacant - DC is putting the onus on property owners to prove they've addressed issues or else face 5% vacancy surcharges or 10% dereliction surcharges...

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 From DigitalSciGuy's twitter (with pics). So after this gets built, Millenium will dominate the downtown skyline from the Charles/Common side even more. That's my biggest qualm with 111 Federal St. As in most things...

San Francisco asked people to draw new subways. Here are the crowdsourced results: http://connectsf.org/components/subway-vision/ which match pretty well with some "official" plans for future expansion: http://www.sfexaminer.com/new-subway-vision-maps-show-tunnels-future/ (SF also released an...

See more info on the community outreach meetings + the October construction update here: http://courbanize.com/projects/mit-kendall-square/updates

looking forward to this one. Mehdi Ghadyanloo does some pretty interesting large-scale surrealism: http://boston.curbed.com/2016/10/4/13154216/dewey-square-mehdi-ghadyanloo

MIT buildings don't have names, they have numbers. [EDIT: as cca points out, some buildings do in fact have names, as in the Stata Center or the Green Building. The Koch Institute can refer to either Building 76 or the research entity inside the building. Most other buildings are referred to by...

The end could be nigh for one of Cambridge's most egregiously underutilized parcels: http://www.cambridgeday.com/2016/09/25/calling-vail-court-blight-on-neighborhood-city-officials-seek-a-3-7-million-land-seizure/

Via Urban Liberty: 1 parking spot + 1.25 bike spots per unit. A little more info and some renders from Khalsa Design: http://tkgeast.com/project_item/webster-ave/

Philz Coffee (well-loved San Francisco chain) is expanding to Boston after first opening in DC: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/09/13/philz-coffee-45-million-boston-expansion/#3bc097b1d746

Cambridge Center has been renamed/rebranded as Kendall Center as of... earlier this year? It seemed to coincide with the "KSQ" structure going into place http://www.kendallcenter.com/

Eh... not a good excuse when this guy's on the other side of the Common: https://www.flickr.com/photos/suffolkuniversity/sets/72157625493496280/ ^^ Suffolk University's Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall. Certainly softens the view on that side of downtown: https://goo.gl/maps/EHdf4RjQ5MM2 fits...

Re: Amtrak / Regional Rail Discussion Thread Mini-review (with a couple pics) from Miles: http://milesonthembta.blogspot.com/2016/08/dome-car-on-downeaster.html

Are they replacing brick throughout the plaza, not just near the construction site? My last time there (Boston Calling in May), people were tripping over loose bricks left and right.

facade work is in progress at least on the southern side of the building. here's a picture of not that: cc: Boston Skyline Photos, crane pix's past and present

I was with a group on the river by MIT and everyone loved the wind turbines on top. It's unique, it's a conversation piece, it's making a big statement about green energy, and almost no one cares that it's a glassy box like everything else these days. With the great ground-level activation and...

Re: Ames Street Residence | 88 Ames Str. - Kendall Sq. | Cambridge today around noon - demo seems almost complete

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Yes, thanks for pointing it out! I corrected my original post. And I'm glad you had the same experience. By this time next year, once shops start opening up and people start moving in, this will be a completely different Seaport.

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Been down to the Seaport the past couple weekends for various events. Every time I'm in the area there's something new going up, but it finally feels like the vibrant urban endpoint is in sight. Parcels B and C have made a fantastic street wall on...

You may be in luck - Bee's Knees on Comm Ave has closed and may be followed by the Farnsworth location.