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http://www.abettercambridge.org/action_alert_twining_central_square A call for support for zoning changes necessary to construct a 19 story tower in Central Square, Mass and Main, which will feature 17% affordable housing (too low imo), three bedroom units for families, "micro units" and...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/13/mayor-martin-walsh-first-state-city-address-focuses-education-housing/CdKL0RomjOlS5QObnSbQlO/story.html Wonder how this will work, and what parcels he's considering. Also wonder if it would be possible to upzone parcels for more affordable housing.

Summer Street too, and probably others. Hancock does the opposite of what you are saying. It can be maddening. I get not wanting to encourage neighborhood streets as cut throughs but it ends up just forcing more traffic into squares where they end up being huge bottlenecks, and that's bad for...

Community meeting for this just happened; http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/news-calendar/calendar/2015/01/14/fenway-point-community-meeting

Is it just me or does anybody find it really obnoxious that they've changed the date of this meeting three different times? I *think* this is the correct one and it's what my calendar says, but I can't be sure I didn't miss the last email. I understand that scheduling is not simple but what is...

Please tell me you said that out loud in the moment. Or somebody did.

Wow, tough loss there, sounds like he played a big role in making Assembly Row as successful as it's been. Interesting too that he's an ex-NFL player. My thoughts are with his family. 54 is too young.

As much as I lament the loss of Gourmet Express, that project looks decent. It will go a long way toward filling in a really desolate gap in the Mass Ave street wall. Wonder about what retail will occupy the space, probably too much to ask for another 24-hour market/eatery. It kind of makes...

Re: New Street, East Boston multi-use project These are a few weeks old so the site probably looks pretty different now;

The problem here is that I think we are debating two different issues. Many here are looking to lower rents long term, which increased supply will fix. I'm more concerned with figuring out a way to stop the emergency bleeding going on now that will significantly alter the character of the city...

I've never said that more housing doesn't "lower" rents but it doesn't change the character of the problem. You still need to earn a shit ton of money to live decently in DC. Poor and middle class people are still just as screwed. And strangely enough I had to click the link to get this tidbit...

Well for starters you would have to seize all that land via eminent domain. Not that I would be against condemnation in every circumstance but to do it en masse is certainly questionable at best. Politically it would be a non-starter for a million reasons, some of them very good, some maybe more...

I always hear this as the great solution but I'd like to see one example of this actually working for a city as dense as Cambridge (never mind it only being 6 square miles), and with similar demand. At best more supply will stop prices from going up, but they are already way too high to support...

Maybe it's just my Cambridge blinders but I can't tell if any of your posts are meant to be serious or satire. Nonetheless, I'll bite. Is "everybody else" still entitled to define it's "ins and outs" when the "outs" clearly step on the boundaries of what should be basic human rights? In this...

Zinc... I hope nobody got paid to come up with that pretentious name. 22 Water not "elemental" enough? I will say that now that the covering is coming off, the facade makes a significant impression driving around on I-93 and 28. This is true of most of the North Point buildings but this one...

Affordable Housing laws are basically a waste of time, they do almost nothing to deal with the problems of out of control housing costs pricing out everybody who isn't a high income earner. Unfortunately, as Matthew notes, they are pretty much all we have right now. So I am in favor of them even...

Re: Tremont Crossing in Roxbury They both look like the "Innovation District" coming to Roxbury, just like the Mayor said! edit - damn, I posted before I saw KentXie saying the same thing;

Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/12/building-the-new-harvard-art-museums-was-a-story-of-many-many-constraints/383785/

The view from Kendall;

The area is officially called "The Lynde", sometimes referred to as "Lower Broadway". A documentary was recently made on it; http://malden.wickedlocal.com/article/20140608/News/140608605