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"engaging other groups" aka paying bribes to neighborhood associations of nimbys no one should listen to? It's not even clear that the payoffs are going to legitimately organized nonprofits --- but if you're a group of local nimbys, the city of Boston will let you get your pound of flesh no...

There's absolutely no reason that CCBA couldn't add moderately priced units, essentially those affordable at 100% and 120% of AMI to this project, rather than cutting 60+% of the housing. In fact, affordable housing subsidy programs usually only require 60% of the building be affordable; this...

I'm not sure about that. The status of the land around Melnea Cass is *very* weird and there's been multiple proposals to put in better walking, biking, and bus lanes.

The CCBA is directly responsible for making chinatown unaffordable between this and tai tung ph2

Do we know why this was cut down so much? What's the point? Making it 100% affordable?

Yeah, but that side of Melnea is ruined all the way to Washington St with a precedent of random trees screening housing heavily set back. Poor design choice, may get fixed in the future.

Making south bay architecturally interesting!

Right and their small mindedness got them a worse project by their own metrics!

This project was designed to have far more residential. The "local community" opposed it on traffic concerns, bizarrely favoring office, despite local residential being far less likely to induce traffic and car commutes...

RCC is landbanking them according to my friend who was in leadership there. It's a travesty

I thought these high strength filters were pretty standard in nice new construction buildings.

In principle, Chinatown would be great for massive amounts of value captures from turning tenements into towers. In practice, the Chinatown affordable housing developers are enormous NIMBYs who have resisted making deals like this for the past decade. That Globe article is ridiculous, too...

No shame and not a lick of sense in the article and the comments. People who want to live in a low demand suburb should move to Akron.

Waltham is a bizarrely NIMBY run place.

Seriously. That one (and similar redevelopments of neighboring parcels) will be what makes south bay really click.

The views are good, Morrissey will be shrunk over time, and these buildings can filter their air at least. Also Dorchester Bay City will be built. But yeah, it's still uncomfortably close to the upzoning only along highways.

Note that the developers originally proposed more housing that the NIMBYs cut down. Good they're bringing it back.

Malden had an apartment moratorium at one point in the last decade, driven by implicit racial panic.

I live around the corner and our neighborhood association helped support the developer with the ZBA there. The "zoning" in the South End is designed to make South End rowhomes nonconforming by a small margin in every requirement. The number of variances needed for this one was absurd --- and...

FWIW, there's a bunch of old access infrastructure near old Charlesgate park right around here.