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Interestingly, this project only includes about 2/3rds of the parking lot on the side closest to the existing Kneeland building. The remaining 1/3 facing Harvard St. is owned by another party (a church?) who did not engage the developer when they sought to acquire it. This is why a "ghost...

The chart looks designed for the demo crew, so "green" means "do your job here" while "red" means "don't touch."

Going back to the render in the first post of this thread, is that ad in the location implied to be the relocated digital billboard?

I know I'm not exactly going against the grain with this opinion, but this is totally f***ing nuts. Goofy on its face. If I was being shown one of these units and looked out the window to see this, I would laugh myself out of the building. I understand they were restricted in some way and...

The location - if you don't mind the specific street it's on - is also phenomenal. 300 feet to the Common, a minute walk to Boylston and Chinatown stations. I see the appeal!

There was a brief discussion about Bowker/Charlesgate in the Kenmore/WHOOP thread & in addition to demolishing the central overpass to daylight the park again, I feel like you could easily expand the pedestrian sidings adjacent to both the east and west ramps over the Pike/rail. (The eastern...

Very cool visualization. Looks like minimum highway clearance height is 16' and the average building story is about 14'. Instead of your wedge, I'm conceptualizing frontloading the development as close to Newbury as possible. Let's say you could steal the Pike-adjacent parking lane from Newbury...

I love this idea, and started thinking of ways you could create at least a contiguous decked park connecting to both sides of Charlesgate, but looking at the grade of the Back Bay/Pike/CR/Newbury&Ipswitch/Fenway stretch here, it seems like it may be difficult (impossible?) to build even a flat...

I agree with you that this side entrance is an important one, and probably the one I use 95% of the time. However, to play devil's advocate for a moment - South Station consists of 3 or 4 interconnected transit areas and is heavily trafficked by regular commuters. There're the subway tunnels...

Looks like someone copied their homework from the Viola (Mass Pike Parcel 13, Back Bay):

Potential solution to this Gordian Knot: build his tunnel segment as requested, then in a few years when the tunnel is perpetually flooded and rising maintenance costs prevent repair and pumping, leave the tunnel flooded and reclaim all of Storrow & Soldier's Field as parkland since it'll be...

Reached out to RIDOT again today on the 1-year anniversary of the TransitForwardRI Master Plan being published and got this new reply [sic]: When I pointed out the plan is hosted on the RIPTA website and says "RIDOT is close to launching a program with Amtrak for the use of MBTA commuter rail...

I believe it's next in sequence (when the staging area for this tower is vacated), right up against the party wall. BPDA: http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/41-lagrange-street aB: https://archboston.com/community/threads/residential-tower-41-lagrange-street-chinatown.5733/

Yes, it looks like the index has to be rebuilt as was done here: https://archboston.com/community/threads/xenforo-update.5857/post-360875

The render I saw had a tasteful lit logo in the mechanical penthouse above the balconies; I don't know how this could have impacted residents but if it did there surely could have been a mitigation - an opaque rim so the light can't shine straight down, or something like that.

I can confirm that this is still happening as of Wednesday afternoon. I thought I had remembered reading somebody on here talking about it; glad the indexed search goes back to 2016!

Filling in the river is absolutely inappropriate and would harm the natural ecosystem. The developers should dedicate part of this project to restoring the Charles River to its pre-1857 water levels and conditions.

Years ago, it used to be correct, and then they changed something about how they draw the lines and ruined it. A big part of the problem was that for some reason the Devonshire entrance to State Street Station became the "primary" location for the station, and their new algorithm just draws the...

A little off-topic, but using that constraint as a starting point, I doodled something I'd love to see: Before: After: Eliminate Storrow between Kenmore and the Public Garden. Shrink Storrow to the East. Reclaim Esplanade parkland, reserve potential Blue Line to Kenmore ROW, implement...

I completely agree that this is a possible outcome. Hopefully not, however, considering that their strategy paper states the following: While that last point is of course some tier-one marketing speak, they are at least aware of the desire for express service.