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Haven’t been able to circle back to this in a while, but I do think I’ve found a good case study for how one-way-in/one-way-out development is strangling the commonwealth: English Commons is such a development in Topsfield right after the split between route 1 and I-95 as it heads up to...

Thank God for this one. I was really getting down on Harley for doing next to nothing on housing during her tenure (and for supporting mass deportation). I’ll believe it when I see it, but this report is at least something nice to chew on and a step in the right direction. An oxymoron.

Why are we posting pictures of Washington DC in an ArchBoston thread? :unsure: :censored:

I’d at least push it back to the year Milkweed opened on Tremont: 2017.

Boston could never. But hey, being able to legally move your mother-in-law into the tool shed out back is basically as big a housing win as by-right multifamily, no?

Tear it down.

Is it more attractive? I wouldn’t want to live on a dead end, but maybe that’s just me. I like having a little network of roads to walk around and multiple exits onto different bigger roads. And let’s step back from developers for a second and look at the towns. Even if dead-ends are...

Not a huge history, infrastructure, or public policy buff so forgive me if any of this is wildly off base! But something that’s bothered me about conversations around housing, traffic, and infrastructure and how the three inter-relate is the forgone conclusion that any new development whether...

Loved the wording shared by the earlier-posted article: “Now, the emergency regulations define subway stations as “any of the stops along the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Red Line, Green Line, Orange Line, or Blue Line, including but not limited to the Mattapan High Speed Line and...

Ah, but see it’s primarily the ambiance that I’ll miss. The pizza is fine, but sitting out in that back parking lot on a warm summer night was really great. Looks like this building will fill that whole space.

I like that they’re leaving room for multiple retail establishments. It’ll be sad losing the back of Dragon Pizza though. It’s been a nice place to sit outside and eat/drink/talk in the summer.

But it won’t get fixed if new stuff like this is following the old pattern.

I agree with the Tremont side, but the Melnea Cass side is decidedly cut off from the street. Kind of like West Village and Ruggles Street.

Can someone summarize for non-subscribers?

Was able to stop by here today with the beautiful weather. Thought the space was gorgeous. Very impressed!

Kind of a vaguer inquiry than most, but: what's going on with Malden? I feel like they put up a lot of great TOD downtown around Pleasant and Exchange and then just....stopped? There are still plenty of underutilized lots and such in and around downtown (like this corner of Charles and...

What do you suggest?

I think I love it, but need to sit with it a bit longer :unsure:

The meeting was on a Monday. It doesn’t say what time, but already it’s going to be much harder for working people and parents to attend on a weekday versus retirees.

I think this is the big flaw in the argument: that if people/companies formerly tied to Boston were given the opportunity, they’d choose to reside instead in Brockton and Fall River. Wishful thinking to the extreme!