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Looks like it's really happening, thankfully.

True, but variable heights on a skyline is usually a good thing, compared to a flat uniform buzzcut.

It's only a 0.3 mile walk from Route 9 along Hammond Street to the GL Chestnut Hill station inbound platform (see Google map below). Hammond Street is very walkable with sidewalks on both sides. The only hard part is walking across Rte 9, which does of course have a signalized pedestrian...

Drop a lane in each direction of Rte 9 and replace those with bus lanes, plus separated bike lanes. Would that create more auto congestion? Probably, but the improved bus speeds and service, plus making it amenable to bikes, would reduce the volume of car traffic.

This is what I wish it looked like now, with a light rail line. Photo of Route 9 at Hammond Street. 1922 (from Reddit):

A "mini me" of City Hall Plaza. Another sterile slab of concrete detached from the life of the city. I hope some food vendors and sidewalk cafes can be set up around the periphery.

Thanks!

Do any passenger trains stop at Hynes Station? It doesn't show up on the T map.

Isna Is that Yo Yo Ma?

I grew up around there, and always loved the Alewife area.

I was thinking that decking over the segment of Rte 9 throughout the project limits would be great, establishing a ped and bike environment on the second level, looking something like the deck on the Lyric Back Bay, but larger. Some low rise buildings could cover portions of the deck. The...

Looks good. The only fly in the ointment is that the layout (plan view) graphics don't show the proposed footbridge over the Fitchburg Division RR. Gotta keep pushing the city and the developer for that to happen, apparently.

That would require some vision and courage from the political and business leadership in the cities/towns. That, of course, is lacking. Also, I prefer some height and massing variability; high rises as well as some townhouses in the mix, and not just all 5-over-1s. Uniformity on a vast scale...

Wow, I had no idea.

Yes, keep the old facade and place a tall building there, using the old facade as the base.

Wow. The Berklee College of Music looks like a mini South Station. I expected to see a glass tower on top of it.

Does the $75 grand include admission for two to the World Cup games?

With decent architecture, a good ped/bike path system, a grid of small streets and blocks, and retail and pocket parks scattered about, with little or no parking lots, then a great neighborhood can be developed with five over ones .

I think it's just the gaudy style of the render. The finished built product will probably look more normal.

From the In the documents, I found the following verbiage that supports the new ped/bike bridge over the tracks. It wasn't clear who will be paying for it, but hopefully the developer will be: "As further described in Volume II, Section1.6.1, an essential element of the Project is the...