Search results

Re: General Electric HQ | 244-284 A Street | Fort Point Tito is generally against the tax breaks. I have no doubt that Boston arranged it so the tax break goes away if GE doesn't meet its targets. That's what happened with Vertex, a market turn, less jobs, and Vertex paid the city back for the...

1047 Comm Ave is temporarily being rented by BU during the renovations of Myles Standish. When it was approved, it had nothing to do with BU.

1047 Comm Ave made it through as an SRO. Although it was originally approved as a dorm and only became SRO through a notice of project change.

The city says it has 81 properties that are classified as rooming houses, which are basically this.

Apparently 1505 Comm Ave had its grand opening this week. Office->residential conversion. http://www.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2017/08/former_brighton_office_building_redeveloped_into_new_housing

That isn't far above what many of the units at 1501 Comm Ave ("The Lancaster") sold for. Which also is on the B line with trolleys rolling by. And in May, a 1BR in the Lancaster sold for $628K , above that $600K for a 1BR. The $1.2MM is far above what the PHs in the Lancaster sold for. The most...

No, they do not have that ability without permission from the state. For example, the residential exemption is allowed by the law in Chapter 59, Section 5C. There is nothing similar for non-occupied retail space.

They've also put a crane on the outbound side of Comm Ave during the second half of this week, so cyclists and buses are using the on and off ramps on the BU Bridge as a single lane.

Do they have room to store the old buses in addition to the new ones? Would they have room to store them for use next year as well (less relevant to the question of whether they could be using them right now)?

This month's BAIA agenda: •46 Hichborn St- proposal for 46 units, 50 parking spaces and a roof deck. •70 Leo Brim. Pkwy- proposal for 82 unit condo project with 66 parking spaces. •334 Cambridge St- proposal for 360 total units of which 253 will be condo units with 183 parking spaces. That...

It doesn't say that at all??? It says they settled for 14% of the contract. The contract presumably is less than parking revenue, otherwise MBTA would not be making any money on their parking lots. And the settlement may be for more than what was stolen. Often, the contract will stipulate an...

Related to this, why does everything in Allston have to presented at both ACA and BAIA? Allston-Brighton has a similar land area and population as Somerville. There is no reason for there to be a neighborhood association that handles such a large area. I think having 4 neighborhood associations...

pics from the pnf:

Part of the reason Boston doesn't have YIMBY groups at the moment is that the city is spending less time listening to NIMBY groups. from...

The science of wallboard is well established and undisputed. As linked by someone in the Waltham thread, adding wallboard changes the time to collapse for the lumber currently being used from 6 minutes to 27 minutes[1]. [1]...

Someone at Callahan got the project off their site quickly??? Not listed currently: http://callahan-inc.com/projects/residential-multifamily/ But listed 3 weeks ago (last archive.org capture) https://web.archive.org/web/20170702041318/http://callahan-inc.com/projects/residential-multifamily/

Isn't the $21MM just payment for the lease on the property for the first phase? Globe article is a little confusing on that and I can't find any details on the MassDOT site.

Related to harbor access, Intercontinental forced to remove bar due to not granting public access to the harbor. http://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2017/07/state-regulators-order-intercontinental.html

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District And it now appears that after trying to sell those buildings, they will be demolished. It only upsets me as a fan of Infinite Jest, which is hardly a reason to stop the demolition.

Here's the census data for Boston housing: Total housing units 278,521 No bedroom 17,987 6.5% 1 bedroom 70,608 25.4% 2 bedrooms 95,533 34.3% 3 bedrooms 64,135 23.0% 4 bedrooms 21,987 7.9% 5 or more bedrooms 8,271 3.0% And for an arbitrary comparison, the state of Massachusetts: Total...