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Akron OH is removing a large piece of highway through its downtown and stitching back together a large portion of the street grid, plus adding lots of new homes. Reminds me a lot of the spur in new bedford thats planning to be removed and turned into a boulevard. Theres probably thousands...

Someone said there should be a separate thread for chestnut hill and I think thats a good idea. Chestnut hill is a village but its located within 3 different towns, brookline, newton, and brighton, so projects there get spread all around into different threads and separated. This will help keep...

Today I was looking for the 33 mount vernon street project documentation on the winchester town website and it really just hit home how ridiculous it is that every single town in the boston metro area has its own separate website with varying quality and varying degrees of usability that you...

“KIC Roxbury LLC (the "Proponent") has submitted a Supplemental Filing in connection with the ongoing Article 80 review process for the proposed redevelopment of the approximately 211,277 square foot (4.85 acres) former Radius Specialty Hospital site at 45-47 Townsend Street in the Washington...

-Couldnt believe this doesnt have a thread already. Doesnt help the search here is effed. This was previously approved, but is now being modified to try to remove parking to make it viable in the current climate. Allston Square “Project Description *City Realty, the Proponent, now proposes...

As this becomes more popular and more projects happen around the country I think it would be nice to have a place to collect different projects in one place and see how successful they are and what works/doesnt and what looks good or not. Heres a new project happening in georgetown, lots of...

So we have a few rail proposal threads, but I figured it would be cool to have a thread for just general crayoning of infrastructure ideas around the boston area. There are two ideas that I had posted in another thread which didnt really have anywhere to go and the reason for the thread...

-Couldnt find an existing thread, probably something around this size many times would go in infill, but I feel like as a hotel its different from a random apartment building or something. Also I added some more descriptors to the title like a few ppl had asked about, so that way ppl shouldnt...

Developer proposes 46-acre project in Cambridge that would include 2,076 apartments and millions of square feet of new lab and office space “Healthpeak, a Denver company that normally focuses on healthcare development(link is external), has filed plans with the state for a $4.5-billion...

-Couldnt find a dedicated thread for this, but construction is starting soon. Project Announcement - June 10, 2025 “Hello, We are excited to announce the start of the Back Bay Station Concourse Renovation Project! Beginning this summer, Back Bay Station will undergo a major revitalization...

Updated plans propose a bigger boutique hotel going up in long-undeveloped Teele Square ‘Pit’ “A proposal to develop a long-empty “Pit” has returned to Somerville’s Teele Square, now a political issue in City Council elections for a neighborhood eager to see improvement after years of...

-All of a sudden lately theres a million new projects coming out, I wonder what freed up the pipeline so much? 555 Talbot Avenue “Erect a new six-story mixed-use building to contain approximately 34 dwelling unit and a ground-floor restaurant, with no on-site parking.”...

-Quality neighborhood appropriate proposal imo 80 Gardner Street “The proposed project involves the construction of a new six-story, multi-family residential building comprising 36 units. Six of the residential units will be designated as affordable in compliance with the City of Boston’s...

52 Plympton Street “The proposed development at 52 Plympton Street would replace two underutilized buildings with a seven-story, approximately 44-unit multi-family residential building located in the South End’s EDA South sub-district and in the Protection Area of the South End Landmark...

“The Proposed Project involves the demolition of the existing structure on a 6,450 square foot lot to allow for the construction of a new (6) six-story, mixed-use building. The building will include approximately 1,007 square feet of ground-floor retail space, nineteen (19) condominium units...

No thread for this surprisingly. Jefferson Park - Federal “Jefferson Park Federal is a Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA) development located off Rindge Avenue in North Cambridge adjacent to Jefferson Park State. Built in the early 1950s, the previous housing was in need of significant...

Realized theres no thread for just posting pictures of boston trains, so heres a cool one I came across. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1QJ6QHx9Wv/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Brandeis Announces New 631-bed Residence Hall as Part of Major Campus Investment “Brandeis University has announced the launch of a transformational campus development project: a new state-of-the-art residence hall that will add 631 beds to the university’s housing portfolio. Construction is...

-Figured Id create one thread to consolidate everything regarding morrissey blvd upgrades. Morrissey blvd corridor study: https://www.mass.gov/doc/draft-morrissey-boulevard-corridor-study-report/download