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Re: Garden Garage Towers (Basketball City) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End Community meeting on this tonight; http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/news-calendar/calendar/2014/11/17/garden-garage-community-meeting

Well, there are speed bumps. Not like they can't be easily avoided by veering into the millions of empty marked parking spots and contributing to the overall chaos, but hey, they're trying. :rolleyes: It almost makes you hope they just leave the area alone because whatever half assed cost...

Re: The Commons at Forest Hills | 3593-3615 Washington St | Jamaica Plain Taking out the legal issues, whether or not we should care about this depends a lot on other facts. Such as, when did he buy this property? Back in the 70's? In which case I'd say you'd have no real right to be making...

To be honest that's kind of what I find awesome about it. It's just so bizarre and out of place, but it hardly matters cause the area sucks anyway. It's really the perfect spot in the entire city to put a building like this.

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 I feel like the entire southern section of Somerville has an identity crisis when it comes to what it should be called. "Cobble Hill" is a bad name, even though it sounds nice. The problem is that there is no obvious hill, unlike Prospect, Winter...

Seems a rather lame "justification" for passing this. Even if you think there is a 5% anything gets done with the additional money, that's better than zero. I'm pretty sure people just don't want to pay taxes.

Sounds awesome, unfortunately I have about 13$ in my bank account right now.

They better get going on this; https://twitter.com/opticalrefine/status/528335698617958400

Re: Charles River Skatepark I get that the spaces are connected via the north bank bridge but otherwise they are not very close - you wouldn't be able to actually watch the skaters from here. I'm unclear what they are going to do with this "hardscape", anything ambitious wouldn't make much...

I wonder what would happen to the current high school site it moves. Could that building be converted to condos? Could some of the parking lots closer to Highland be built on? With those views think of what disturbingly high prices the market could command. Personally I'd much rather they leave...

Re: Charles River Skatepark http://www.wbur.org/2014/10/23/lynch-family-skate-park One of the pictures here is confusing to me. It says that the area under the bridge will be transformed into a "hardscape" for events at the skate park - I assume they mean the Zakim bridge because that is what...

The thing is, it's not development that drives coverage from journalists. They are more interested in cultural trends, especially if they can be applied more broadly geographically. Southie is interesting but it's a one of a kind deal where it was once a white "ghetto" that has been gentrified...

Aside from what's already been mentioned I'd say geography plays a big part. Somerville is surrounded on all sides by dense urban communities, whereas Southie is surrounded mostly by water and the SE Expressway. Sure, Somerville's cut off by the same highway but it feels like an anomaly of the...

A couple more I forgot; 181-197 Washington Street - Affordable housing complex by the SCC, I imagine demolition should occur soon. 82 Highland Ave - Six unit building of 2 bedrooms, lot was recently cleared.

Two more issues for pedestrians (amongst many others); 1.) It's a mugging danger zone in many places, especially at night when traffic is low. Lighting is ok but doesn't help you that much when you are isolated from most other traffic. 2.) I've seen giant chunks of concrete on the ground and...

Here is a brief list of everything I can think off off the top of my head, and the latest progress. Later I'll try and make a map and provide some pictures. - Former Millbrook Cold Storage (6 story, building is gutted save for frame) - Cobble Hill Plaza (5 story mixed use, proposed) -...