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Just guessing, and this is an outsider's perspective with no knowledge of the inner workings of this deal: Mark Development doesn't have a huge amount of ground-up development experience as a firm - it's probably looking a little risky for investors. They've attempted a really great looking...

Signed to be enforced in an EO by none other than DT. The further threats over bike lanes and criminal migrants is so tired. For claiming to be focused on the real issues, here we have the POTUS talking about lanes for bicycles in a city where no average resident has a car (22% ownership in...

The Paul Rudolph MET Exhibit was great. It's getting close to the end of the exhibit, so now's your last chance to go. I hope we get to see something similar closer/in Boston some time.

Someone might get mad at me for not attributing an older firm that is more true to this statement, but DS+R are THE OG Auditorium Stairs Architect of this recent wave. This is their biggest, almost comical offender from 2010-2016 (I don't hate it)...

They do sometimes put sugar in concrete in the summer to slow down the reaction

(Welcome back Diller Scofidio + Renfro!) I was hoping for better, but will hold the criticism until it's completed. The Universal Hub rendering seems to be the most promising currently.

Agree with much of what you said. This seems like a continuous waste of energy and money. This point I excerpted, however, is a big one - MassDOT needs to operate as a DOT, not a highway agency. This is a major transportation node, and there's no need to spend hundreds of millions to billions to...

Their heaters do ;)

Construction Manager - I presumed based on your eager interest in this and the Harvard building you may be a (façade) supplier to the CMs for those - might have been too presumptuous.

Perhaps you should ask your CM for those photos ;)

There's an executive order out right now about placing priority for funding on transportation projects with user pay models. This is right up their alley.

Interesting, because it seems like Eversource not only figured out Framingham, but has some idea of how it would be completed at scale. The Volts podcast has a pretty good episode on Thermal Energy Networks if people are interested.

VMF = Vehicle Maintenance Facility (Existing) MOW = Maintenance of Way The real estate transaction was announced at a Board Meeting in the past year or so, with a very conceptual layout. The expansion is to accommodate the new GL Type 10 cars, and provide MOW needed space.

Man, tosh33 is still filling the comments sections up. I'd like to meet them some day... see if they're foaming at the mouth over building heights in real life as well..

I hate to be a pessimist, but I don't think there will be governor support for this.

Through an FOIA request, I received information on the scope and pricing estimate/bid, for those interested. The estimate was around $13.7M, with $745K in potential VE savings, and the published estimate in the bid advertisement was $13M. The target was $12.3M, which is reasonably close, but...

They do look small, but it might just have to do with the scale of the building. From an interior rendering:

I think the T has stated that due to the amount of disruption this past year, decreased service and shutdowns, they did not feel it was fair to raise fares on the riders for a worse experience. We will see the plan for this year's diversions, which are supposed to be much less disruptive to the...

This isn't surprising... not doing much but looking like they did something... They won't have to fight with public schools, but will have to fight with other transportation agencies. I think it is set up to be 50% for education, 50% for transportation, and this seems to imply the T would be...

There's your answer...