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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/opinion/boston-bike-lanes-mass-ave-beacon-street/ From time-to-time, Jeff Jacoby writes thoughtfully-argued opinion pieces. This is not one of them. For those blocked by a paywall, all you have to know is that the entire piece rests on this absolute...

FWIW, here's what the Land Court case docket says about this... some notably pessimistic phrasing here, but of course, as a rule, nobody wants to go to trial, so hopefully a pre-trial settlement emerges, despite the judge's gloomy outlook. As unfortunate as a trial would be, I imagine it could...

Alright, I'm going to bite, given how so far I don't think anyone has pointed out the blindly obvious here: It's bad enough it's an oil company, in terms of the tens of millions of deaths the industry will have on its hands due to fossil fuel-driven climate change. But it's not just any oil...

Quasi-public institution and property are completely separate things. Your conflation of them here is, in my estimation, also a garbage take. Also, what proof do you have that FSG "will be gone soon"? For that matter, what proof do you have that The Red Sox "will not"? There is no guarantee that...

I think the way to best way to frame how dire the situation is to contextualize things within the context of the Halloween '91 aka Perfect Storm. We know that storm was highly catastrophic in terms of the coastline damage it incurred here. It also created the highest tide in Boston since the...

And behold, verily, (checks notes) 2,910 Days After the Planning Dept. was ordered to conduct what became PLAN Downtown, said institution has decided to punt, and now, perhaps, PLAN Downtown might come before the Planning Dept. Board in September. Perhaps. We'll see... ... but hey, again...

Just how long "empty," one might reasonably wonder? Glad you asked! I went on Google Maps and discovered this site morphed into the now-infamous "Pit" no later than July 2012, so it has turned 13. [In contrast the far more infamous/celebrated Filene's site "Pit" in DTX took a mere half-decade...

Hideous indeed--"seizure-inducing," one might even venture. Thanks as always for the explanation. FWIW, I spot about one P&W-branded freighter a month sidetracked/idle on the Providence Line (usually right outside Providence station, but also frequently by the petro farm at the Thurber's Ave...

So, I discovered this mural/homage to the New Haven railroad at the supermarket nearest to where I live, which is a solid 2.5 miles from the NEC/Amtrak corridor/Artist Formerly Known As The NY, NH & H Railroad but hey whatever works for them. It sure looks like the P&W was trying to...

On this topic generally, driving north on Pleasant Valley Pkwy recently, I had quite an eye-opening education re: the transition in socioeconomic status/quality of housing stock as you go north from the Federal Hill plateau toward PC campus and beyond... generally, it seems like Smith Ave is the...

Paging 'Gansett Brewery, your obvious philanthropic initiative has just been issued on the AB forum!: https://www.narragansettbeer.com/blogs/all-blogs/the-return-of-lovecraft-honey-ale?srsltid=AfmBOopcvYde7ICxJ5ZfAiosCiP_9CIzh2o7OYNctOsE6pk3t62JK-Sx

Let me guess: despite your fiery exhortation on May 30 that "everybody on this forum can and must participate in this meeting," you didn't actually attend last night's PLAN Downtown meeting. Thus, to deflect, you drop this gratuitously cynical hot take, which will age about as well as Dewey...

Was anyone able to attend? I couldn't make it, but I've heard that the pro-PLAN Downtown forces were able to muster enough turnout and inspired testimony in favor of PLAN to significantly suppress (if not neutralize) the NIMBY opposition. At this point, in theory it's just a question of which...

https://www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-naacp-calls-end-white-stadium-project In terms of the politics, perhaps not surprising... but still, is this not absurdly late in the game? The City has already been hosting contractor fairs ... this thing is going to happen, folks, absent something...

NIMBYs ain't got the receipts to objectively demonstrate alleged harms? Shocking, just shocking... Judge Mark Gildea rejected the towns’ argument as “speculative,” saying they did not provide concrete examples of the costs multifamily housing would inflict on them. “The Municipalities have...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/business/downtown-zoning-plan-boston/ Immensely gratifying to see a *robust* amount of pushback in the comments section vs. some of the more hysterical and preposterous NIMBY assertions being tossed around [as usual without a shred of objective...

And behold, it came to pass, that the Planning Department, a mere (checks notes) 2,860 days after it was ordered to do so by the Legislature, acting with the *immense urgency* required of COVID's permanent long-term impacts on central business districts . . . has decided to hold a public...

Facts are stubborn things. The massive site is already split in three--Markley data center on top right-hand, Hyatt/LCC on the bottom half left-hand, with the very stark property line between Markley and the other owners/uses slicing diagonally through it. You'll notice the Hyatt/LCC rooftop...

Post Office Square also is a privately-owned, privately-maintained park, and thus has been cleaned vigorously and expertly by a professional, salaried staff, since its inception. Thus I definitely would not use it as a comp here...

Sigh. Not surprisingly, consternation is growing in all quarters in Lil' Rhody over the developer's inability to get the desperately-needed renovation rolling... a fairly informative piece that interviews a fair number of influential folks and probably took a while to develop...