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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health just hosted (May 20) their annual Problem Gambling Conference at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, for example. Lots of MA government agencies host conferences in convention facilities.

Expansion talks are starting up again: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/21/business/convention-center-expansion-south-boston-mcca/

Exactly. Starchitects typically don't do basic building modernization and "blending in" projects.

Final MBTA departures from downtown stations are between 12:20 and 12:50 AM. It is not just restaurant workers, many service workers get off at 2 AM. For example office cleaning crews work a 6 PM to 2 AM standard shift. Those lights are not on in all the office buildings to make them look...

I cannot quite put my finger on it, but for some reason this project screams "money laundering scheme".

You would think they would at least try to turn all that sandy open space into a park. Lots of grass and pavers, big trees to block the wind. Maybe a water feature or two.

This is a really intriguing implementation. Is there a traffic volume where this ceases to work well?

The intern just discovered all the surface texture and shape variants in the CAD rendering library.

Hum, two Newbury Street burger joints (that are 500 feet apart) both petitioning for late night hours at the same time. I smell the work of a marketing firm selling both chains the same service need analysis for a late night location (one) in that part of Newbury. Somebody is not going to do...

I can't think of any on pavement markings that are poorly maintained in Massachusetts 🙃 Actually I cannot think of seeing many on pavement markings at all.

There is online chatter that some drivers find the shifts disconcerting in snowy and other visibility limited conditions, particularly when the on pavement markings are obscured.

The building next door to the right has a property line window on the side, which would trigger a setback for fire hazard. They must be proposing blocking the window (which should not be there on the property line anyway, per code).

I think a bigger part of the justification is the accident rate at the rotary -- over 50 accidents per year. It is the most dangerous location on Route 2.

The third option, the diverging diamond interchange, would probably have the best traffic flow and non-vehicle experience. But I don't know whether Massachusetts drivers could wrap their head around the DDI.

Something like 20% of the South End is postwar redevelopment buildings. Major block long buildings on Columbus and Tremont. Villa Victoria, Cathedral Housing, Castle Square, Rollins Square, etc. Then you have the New York Streets that are all very new development. And SoWa, which was never...

Yes, the thin space is separately owned. It is a series of old rowhouse parcels along Harvard Street owned by the Chinese Christian Church of New England. They would not cooperate with the BPDA on the current 55 Hudson development. If you see an empty space left in Chinatown, it is likely a...

I don't know how you make sense out of light industrial uses for space in the urban core. You would have to be making an incredibly valuable product that needed something else only available in the urban core to be produced. Also even light manufacturing involves logistics, materials in...

The biggest flow change you need to create is to address the vehicle trips to/from Back Bay Station -- which all tend to use the Dartmouth Street side. That creates a lot of the flow on Dartmouth to Back Bay.

Just to put this in perspective. a partial closure on the Northern Line in London is far more disruptive than a full closure of the B branch on the Green Line. The Northern Line is the Tube's busiest line, with over 300 Million passengers per year. That is not a typo. The Northern Line...

Isn't this unusual, steel before a core?