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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    I work around the corner. Even incomplete, it is clear this building is stunning. The materials are excellent and the glass really pops. The endless haterade being spilled is unnecessary. There's pages of documentation on why the old building was unsupportable. The idea that *design review*...
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    Rivvian like the Lucid in the Seaport and the Tesla nearby aren't traditional dealerships. They're showrooms for companies that want to be dtc. Honestly that type of use doesn't bother me.
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    Allston-Brighton Infill and Small Developments

    That's potentially a good idea, but the developer proposed cutting the parking for green space and the ZBA wouldn't play ball. Unacceptable.
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    North End | Downtown Small Infill Projects

    Those townhouses are zoning-noncompliant in Boston's rowhouse n'hoods let alone less dense ones. The economics of townhouses work great for building at scale if they're by right is my understanding. We do see occasional infill that looks like this in the South End where it's small apt...
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    Northeastern University Multipurpose Athletic Facility | 262 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

    I hear you, this is just not the current state and it's unclear how you commemorate this...at all. Maybe they should build a retro arena that looks like old Matthews, but it's not clear to me what that solves.
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    Northeastern University Multipurpose Athletic Facility | 262 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

    One end has a parking lot and an attached building that is not arena qua arena. At the very least those should be a tower. On the arena side, the first thing that comes to mind is the Columbia University gym is the bottom few floors of a tower with cavernous open spaces.
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    Northeastern University Multipurpose Athletic Facility | 262 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

    Matthews is ugly and nothing special. The brick arch is kinda cool. Whatever, this matches the NEC buildings across the street. Biggest miss is not putting dorms on top imho.
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    Gillette leaving Southie.

    Love these insane parkland requirements. Maybe 50% is right, but it's bizarre to start so proscriptively.
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    Brookline Infill and Small Developments

    It's a bad faith concern. There are daycares all over town and yet we don't have smelly diaper complaints about them. Like all clever NIMBY bs, it's couched in something that seems prima facie reasonable, but deeper thought will reveal that it is of course something that is accounted for by...
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    Roxbury Infill and Small Developments

    The MPNDC proposal for Warren / Crawford is good and points to the strength of their recent work --- it's heavily mixed income requiring less subsidy.
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    The New Residential Conversion Thread

    It was meant to be resi, but WeWork bought it for a fortune and started converting it to Office. Then WeWork went bankrupt.
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    Allston Yards (Stop and Shop) | 60 Everett St | Allston

    This type of buildout could be great for the rest of the South Bay center. Target and Stop and Shop clearly coexist nearby under apartments. Home Depot does in NYC
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    Roxbury Infill and Small Developments

    Yeah, Nubian is its own set of problems. Completely agreed. They're just different ones, if similar at times.
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    Roxbury Infill and Small Developments

    I live nearby and walk through there multiple times a week...
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    Roxbury Infill and Small Developments

    And further, Mass and Cass is hyperlocalized. Three blocks down Harrison from Mass Ave, by BWSC, you see no sign of anything amiss.
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    Northeastern University - Institutional Master Plan

    Northeastern's new architectural style: swirly metal. Just look at (the much better) EXP and ISEC
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    Northeastern University - Institutional Master Plan

    Gainsboro Garage is a great spot for a tower...direct connection to the T
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    Roxbury Infill and Small Developments

    TFA has a history of unhinged comments and outbursts. The typos here are the type of things she would put on twitter in the past.
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    Bartlett Yards | 2505-2565 Washington Street | Roxbury

    It's interesting how much nicer the MPNDC developments at Whittier Choice + Madison Park look than Bartlett. They've also moved faster. Wonder what there is to be learned.
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    Cambridge Crossing (NorthPoint) | East Cambridge/Charlestown | Cambridge/Boston

    This is all the CRA. A Cambridge gov't source says that their planners (+ Cambridge City ones) are inordinately fond of these roadfume parks and no one can convince them otherwise.

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