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The pro-development crowd has high standards. You can have construction going on two buildings 6 days a week, but you're still not going fast enough for odurandina because you haven't broken ground on the three other buildings in your PDA. Seriously guys, this is one of the most active...

If we're discussing the idea in that sentence, why wouldn't someone take the commuter rail to Porter instead and transfer there? You went off on another idea, which is actually practical. It is easier to take the commuter rail to work in Alewife than ride past Alewife to Porter and red line...

Harvard's 2017 tax bill for the parcels acquired from the MTA will be ~$1 million. Before Harvard acquired them, I believe the taxes collected were zero since state is straight up exempt from Boston taxes. The cash payment is more like 6.25% of the theoretical tax bill

I know, it isn't a full summary, but the number is coming from the exact same place as the numbers on project cost.

The Commonwealth is seeing a benefit, a replacement for the viaduct. I mean, the no build option is $426.1 million. And then, you still have an old ass viaduct that you have to replace in 2030 instead of 2020. That's a genius idea! I have no idea what your complaint is. What do you want to be...

I don't see how anyone can claim this only impacts Harvard. If you ever walk this stretch, you realize it is one of the most horrid pedestrian experiences in the city. There is a whole neighborhood of folks for whom this project will be a major improvement to their quality of life. There are...

What a weird grouping together of Harvard and BU's endowments, Harvard at $36 billion, BU at $1.6 billion. Or Harvard at $1.7 million/student and BU at $51,000/student.

Why do you think you wouldn't need eminent domain? Malvern street doesn't even run all the way to where the connection would be made, you would need to take that land from Barnstead to even put in a road. And Babock has several buildings at the same elevation as the tracks/pike, at least one of...

The $1.2 billion price tag includes $500MM of cost overruns, so... it might go up, but there's quite a buffer there I believe Harvard will own all/most of the land, so I'm not sure why the state would be getting revenue. The state got money when the MTA sold land to Harvard ~15 years ago...

Why would you have a flatscreen TV in a public observation deck?

I'll add that Brownsberger has some info too.

I use apple pay every time I shop at Stop & Shop, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Marty's Big Buys, etc. It is a great option. But it is a high stress option for getting on a green line trolley or bus as it sometimes is finicky. I would prefer my Charliecard works like my EZPass. Put some money in...

If you use the bus or green line above ground, this isn't an option. So, someone in Allston cannot add money to their card while at home and then hop on the train. They can go to Tedeschi's or Lee's 2 and add value though.

Really, it comes from AB, back in January http://www.archboston.org/community/showpost.php?p=285215&postcount=425 As can be seen from that post, it has nothing to do with Amazon HQ2, it was taking a project in Sweden and plopping it in Volpe.

That image doesn't come from any work by MASSDOT or the actual project. It comes from a two day workshop held by the Boston Society of Architects

The renderings of all the buildings were fairly gray (I should have taken pictures, there are 5 other buildings being proposed), so either they like gray as a pallet or its a placeholder.

I agree with you there. Talking to the team at their open house, they claimed that 334 Cambridge has a lot of structural issues that mean it has to be demolished. The building at the corner of Braintree and Franklin stays, but the murals will be moved somewhere TBD so that residents can look...

One thing I've often wondered about is the compatibility of stoops with our modern accessibility movement and an aging group of baby boomers. Is there a replacement that brings many of the urban niceties of stoops while remaining accessible?

That was the standby when interest rates were much higher, I mean, buying a house at 3x your salary in the mid-90's (at 8% interest) resulted in an equivalent payment to today's 4.5x your salary. And in the 80's at 13-17% interest, 5x your salary would be well below what 3x your salary got you...

sounds like perfect furniture for staging a unit, good looking, but keeps people moving