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Those 52 new households with zero parking spaces aren't going to need any gas stations or mechanics ;). Good riddance. The faster we tear down ICE vehicle infrastructure, the better.

You're describing the building being out-of-plumb by a foot. I understand how that would be imperceptible from the sidewalk because for a 600-foot tower like this one, that means it's now making an 89.9-degree angle with the ground. What I don't understand is how a building settling 17 inches...

Excellent video trending on YouTube explaining the construction of Millenium Tower and how they're trying (and failing) to right it now. Probably nothing eye-opening if you've been following closely or are in the construction trades, but extremely interesting as a layperson. One thing I...

In my opinion, the Ferry Building in SF is the model that Faneuil Hall should aim to replicate. A well curated collection of vendors, skewing a bit upmarket, that appeals to both locals and tourists in a beautifully maintained space. In fairness, they’re different in that the Ferry Building has...

There are certain aspects of this project that don't quite work, but just by virtue of having halfway decent materials and some depth in the facade it's better than ~80% of new development in my book.

Ah, I should've known there would be at least one aBer who had experienced the place firsthand. Apologies for getting the building wrong, I thought I had read descriptions that made it sound like 10 Moulton St. Thank you for linking to the additional BBN history. It's really surprising to me...

With so many technological breakthroughs pouring out of Cambridge, I'm sure practically every other building is connected to some piece of interesting history. However, I think this one warrants being called an easter egg because seemingly no one knows about it. The West Coast is usually...

At least in these photos, the facade treatment looks considerably similar. I fear that from a distance this building is going to appear as an appendage of the Hancock, forever changing its character.

...So did the FAA height regulations governing Boston just not exist 30 years ago? Were they post-9/11 inventions?

@bigeman312 has been sharing great charts of MBTA ridership since covid started in the COVID-19 Impacts on Logan, MBTA, and Boston travel and tourism thread. I assume the data they are using is coming from the MBTA developers portal, which includes APIs for real-time data and regularly updated...

bldup confirms that this has topped out

Hey keep trying to get it to catch on and maybe you’ll have invented the next Boston area nickname a la the salt and pepper shaker bridge.

It feels like it should be easy to reach a palatable compromise for both the city and the developer. Save the Shreve Crump & Low facade and give the developer a couple more floors mid-block for going to the trouble. EDIT: Whoops, @stellarfun beat me to it.

Renders lie. I'm quite confident this new pedestrian bridge over 12 lanes of traffic will include fencing in addition to guardrails, but they didn't want to throw a chainlink fence in the render. (This discrepancy is probably the source of confusion here).

Feels unnecessary to reignite 2 month old debate that already got this thread locked once.

The biggest disappointment for me is that the renders seemed to show a facade with a lot of texture, whereas it looks super flat in these pictures. Have not seen it with cladding in person yet tho.

A lot of the state does seem pretty allergic to public subsidy here. Who woulda thunk that Curt Schilling might indirectly cause the Superman building's demise

I'm confused as to where the discrepancy is coming from between the 450 units mentioned in the Globe and GoLocalProv pieces and the 285 units mentioned in the GoLocalProv headline.

Not to derail too much but… I live right next to those new towers in North Brooklyn, in a much shorter pre-war walk-up. Before the towers were built, almost all of their sites were industrial-zoned; decaying lots that literally walled off the neighborhood from the river. Now they’re residential...