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Boston has been selling off municipal garages as development sites.

Anyone have any renders of when it was proposed as a two tower development?

Summer Street on far left

But there is demand for hotels which is why people rent apartments and then them into AirBnBs. so the market will find a way around regulation. Restricting supply won’t. I get this might not be a great spot for a hotel but demand is clearly there for hotels.

“We” aren’t. They are with their money. It’s a business risk they think is worth it apparently.

So governmental policy and regulation, although well intentioned, has a cost and drives up the cost of housing. Also, it artificially limits housing by inflating the cost of some above the marginal profit and reducing height and limiting construction of others. So I agree we need more housing...

I thought that was a black and white photo. Oops. Fail.

The point of free speech is to have ideas be debated in public so people can see that it is a terrible idea.

And what about the people who we employ who live in Boston?

Except that we may own businesses and real estate in Boston and pay taxes in Boston. Would it benefit Boston if we moved our businesses and economic activity to the suburbs or elsewhere? Of course it helps Boston!!

Make a snarky post expect a snarky response.

What’s worse is the 2-year moratorium on new apartment buildings. Not like we have a housing crisis and haven’t known about it for the past 30+ years.

Any update on 40 Trinity/Raffles?

Look at the prices of stocks, housing, and other assets that are supported by the Feds monetary support. That’s where inflation is showing up not in goods prices necessarily.

Replacement might be worse for Boston then you’ve got double trouble.

Because billions to foreign countries doesn’t really matter as long as we send $600 to some Americans.

The fact that the entire region limits development based on traffic, context etc and not need to house actual people is the problem. This is why, notwithstanding market demands, most developments are downsized.

The “we” could be community groups to the city such as the height of the TD Garden towers where they were reduced below allowable zoning because neighbors. The “it” is dictating height as you suggested. My point was I don’t know why dictating heights on the high end or low end are any...

Is that what we do now? But almost always shrinking it?

When Harris and Cuomo say they won’t get any vaccine if Trump is involved it’s an issue on both sides. Science is politicized.