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I'm glad someone took the time to say it. And I'm pleasantly surprised by the comments in agreement. I hope the city pushes for something a little more interesting. There's a huge effort in the hospitality industry to give their brands a bit more personality. There's no reason this location...

Good for them. It'll be interesting to see how this goes. I know Taunton is now on the Commuter Rail, but it's a geographically large town and this complex is a little under 20 minutes from the East Taunton station. It's almost exactly 20 minutes to Mansfield. Considering the trip from Mansfield...

I haven't experienced it first hand, but is it really that bad? I did take SCR from East Taunton earlier this week and noticed a sizeable homeless encampment in Braintree (strewn with trash). Right in the woods in the triangle of land formed by the junction of the FR/NB line and the Kingston...

Agreed on the Waterline. If this thing had 90 degree corners, I think I'd like it a lot better. The curved/angled edges are still throwing me. But quality materials could make it look better than the renderings regardless of what (if anything) happens in revisions. Especially the wood, which...

I love the proposal as a whole and think the ambition alone is worth celebrating. I also actually think the renderings do a good job of showing that a tower of this size wouldn't look particularly out of scale or awkward in Portland. But the design of the tower itself... I've let it marinade...

100%. That said, it's pretty remarkable how audible the train horns are from many locations in the area. My mother lives nearly about 1.5 miles as the crow flies from the nearest grade crossing with dense forest, many neighborhoods, and a highway in between. But the horns are clearly audible...

New hotel proposed just north of the Whales Tooth parking lot: https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2025/04/30/lafrance-hospitality-aims-to-build-hotel-near-new-bedford-rail-station/83365523007/. A new 140 room hotel in this location is great, and it's directly attributable to South...

These are still on the extreme end of the spectrum at this point. Especially because it sounds like most of the issues are staffing related which would impact service no matter what. Thankfully, it's so early that there's just no way they pull the plug completely. They'll probably scale back...

‘It’s a failure’: South Coast Rail service disruption leaves riders stranded, skeptical of commuter line (paywall) The Globe has several quotes from passengers who say they are scared to use it at this point. Creating reliability issues from the start of service is an awful way to kick things...

It's definitely a lengthy walk, but nearly the entirety of it can be and frequently is done on the Bicentennial Trail/Boardwalk which runs on/over the water for the one mile between Bicentennial Park and the Battleship. Is it the Newport Cliff Walk? Absolutely not. But it's pleasant and there...

Wood Partners and Pennrose are the two developers. Wood Partners gets the bulk of it (two larger buildings, riverfront parks, stadium plaza), and Penrose gets the smaller mixed-income development. Both have fairly extensive portfolios, so that's a positive. But the permitting and financing are...

Worked for me. Looks like they got approval which is great. Hopefully they have the financing in place to actually get started.

The Fall River station location sucks and will continue to suck especially while Route 79 construction continues. New Bedford is certainly a different story. If you're stuck right by the station, Mesa 21 is actually a really decent restaurant with a number of good Portuguese dishes (pizza is OK...

Seems like this was submitted in response to that 2024 RFP?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/metro/ri-providence-affordable-housing-peter-pan-diner/ (Paywall) Blueprints filed with the city showed plans to redevelop the former Peter Pan Diner at 327 Elmwood Ave., which was later acquired by Johnson & Wales University, into a five-story mixed-use...

The housing market in Eastie is wild. I saw this unit at The Mark listed for $499k, which is what it sold for in 2022. The same exact unit 2 floors below is for rent for $2650. The average buyer who puts 20% down will be paying in the ballpark of $3800 per month all-in for that same unit. I'm...

Thanks. I actually didn't realize that there was consideration for a Woonsocket-Pawtucket-Providence commuter rail line. So those renders are optimistic, but not fully dishonest.

Love the photo! Was the line double tracked through here, or was that second track just for station access?

Great project and definitely worth of its own thread! I love the train in the rendering. Usually train tracks running alongside a residential project outside of a transit corridor in the city are not viewed as a good thing. But it almost (to my eyes, anyway) looks like they're trying to make...

Good point about the cross streets. Closer to downtown, it makes sense that there aren't any because of the grading (essentially there's a giant retaining wall to the east of the tracks), but extending the existing streets across the new parcels would have gone a long way toward reconnecting the...