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I don't understand. At the expense of what 30 units? I am just suggesting that the city might remove a rowhouse that is in the way and fill in a gap somewhere else. If they have free land and the developer wants it gone, then maybe it might work and actually create 3 units in a quality of...

It also gives 1 Cumberland a reprieve. Isn't it strange that they wrapped this hotel around a single townhouse? I think it is architecturally significant and it should be moved. The city has Community Preservation funds and plenty of 2000 sq ft vacant lots

Weren't they going to tear down the handsome old bow front at 1 Cumberland Street? Did they actually do that?

I understand the point but it also must be noted that over 100,000 NH residents are willing to sit in traffic every day and hand us 5% of their pay just for the privilege of working in our state.

No, your argument was that they are absolutely overpaid in this state and we should use Texas as a guide to pay them less

Spectacle Island and the Quincy Quarries both received dirt from the Big Dig. Dorchester was denied fill for an early version of Pope JP2 Park and to cap the illegal landfill that is now a park near the gas tank

I disagree that something so small is killing multimillion dollar projects and that we should all be like Texas.

Yup, it has gotten so bad that even an electrician can no longer afford a house in either Massachusetts or Texas. The margins are so thin that the modest amount that they must pay these guys brings development to a halt

BTW- Paragon's old wooden coaster "The Giant Coaster" has just closed down at Six Flags Maryland. It's fate is unknown

Is she confused? Are these units being subsidized by a tax break?

This is the price of success and I think it needs a solution on the scale of the Big Dig or the MWRA project

I wasn't talking about developments reasonably near the T. I should have also said that the law encourages large apartment buildings along 128 with a huge number of spaces. These people are going to drive to work

I think you make a really good point about awareness. Quite a few people I know have asked me about this subject because they know it interests me. It seems like there are many more people who view building housing as a complete necessity because of this law. My biggest beef with the law is that...

The other end of the trail

My argument is that an elevated is inappropriate for Columbia Road. I think that the extension FROM Harvard that was done in my adult lifetime should serve as the model.

The point is I didn't doubt it was wide enough I asked why should Cambridge get a tunnel and Dorchester have to settle for an elevated, which is not nearly as good? Hasn't this area been historically underserved? Is that to continue when there is a clear example of what to do, that works, on...

The vision that I would have for Columbia Road is the extension of the Red Line past Harvard. There is about the same density in Dorchester and North Cambridge. The train was put in a tunnel for good reasons and it was a great success. I believe that a subway on Columbia road would be too

I have to respectfully disagree. I remember when the elevated trains came down in Boston; I was a young adult. The elevated over Washington Street and Main Street in Charlestown and both were a blight to those areas, and both areas improved radically when they were torn down. How would...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/10/31/boston-city-cultural-infrustructure-plan

Developments that have a uniqueness of contribution, location, and then size should have their own thread. I am not sure everyone is going to agree about that every time. I think that a small upscale hotel in the South End that fills in a gap tooth should have a thread, but a bigger hotel in...