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The million dollar question: Is the Gallows reopening in there?

So the whole thing is a mess --- they carved out phase 1 to do small project review on it in the hope of getting ARPA funds. In so doing they basically threw the entire masterplan up for grabs and said they're going to do a new review of it. So who know. The surface parking lot is an utter...

Retail spaces! Good Tufts, doing the non institutional thing and having commercial tenants.

This looks...really nice?

The BPDA is holding it up over two street trees. Insane.

Here's the thing: It is a *much* nicer looking building in person than the Whoop building. It manifestly does *not* look cheap --- it looks like some of the new, slightly historicist modern construction on the Upper East Side in NYC. Dislike it all you like, but cheap it ain't.

This is very true --- Boston is insanely expensive for hotels, as anyone signing expense reports for business travel can attest. That said, seems reasonable to do more housing in the seaport when it's full of giant hotels. We do need to think about how to zone for more hotel space --- a big...

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*...

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.

That's potentially a good idea, but the developer proposed cutting the parking for green space and the ZBA wouldn't play ball. Unacceptable.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

It was meant to be resi, but WeWork bought it for a fortune and started converting it to Office. Then WeWork went bankrupt.

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

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