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Re: the developer having to wrap this around the 99 restaurant, I honestly feel this creates an opportunity for much better urbanism here. Instead of ending up with one mega development per block, as is so the norm today, this "hold-out" hopefully allows for the block to broken up and a future...

Love Fort Hill Tower hiding in the center of this one.

Found this small project in Orient Heights on Twitter. Further down in the thread there's another example of residential being added to a 1-story commercial building in Rozzie. All in all though, these types of additions seem quite rare. I'm curious what people's theories are for why this...

I'm not super familiar with how the projects are structured, but it feels like BART does something similar to what @Arlington is describing. BART's added five stations extending three lines over the past five years, with seven more stations planned to come online over the next decade. Most of...

I’m not saying there aren’t a variety of things within a 15 minute (unpleasant) walk from here, but, man, if this is a 90, Walk Score’s methodology sucks. I know Walk Score doesn’t take this into account, but to get nearly anywhere from here you need to immediately cross 7 lanes of traffic.

The front part is so narrow it almost looks like a movie set.

I'm not in real estate development, so please bear with me, but publicizing this plan before all seven lots have been acquired seems risky? Gold Block Real Estate already owns 2 of the lots. The WRA owns another 4 and likely is incentivized to be a willing partner and see this project happen...

Huh. Renders had given me the impression that we were getting a much more 3 dimensional facade here. But looking at these most recent pictures from @BeeLine and looking back at the material sampler, it seems like, minus its north facing side, most of the facade's depth is actually an optical...

Andrea Campbell spoke specifically on parking embarrassingly blocking this project. She was the only candidate to respond to Transit Matter's Jarred Johnson on Twitter:

Got drinks at the Canopy by Hilton in San Antonio last week and it was really well done. Much more striking architecture in the one down there, but also nice materials and attention to detail throughout which hopefully carries over to Boston's. Very much geared towards millennials.

"You need permission to view this map"

Sure, BCDC didn’t explicitly say, “Make this building look like an air conditioner”. But the common pattern is that the BCDC provides feedback and then the developer often returns with a more conservative design so as not to further prolong the process. These reviews have the effect of killing...

Embarrassing. Abolish the BCDC. Seriously, the majority of the time it worsens outcomes.

Lyft sells off its autonomous driving division. https://investor.lyft.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2021/Woven-Planet-a-subsidiary-of-Toyota-to-acquire-Lyfts-self-driving-car-division/default.aspx

Yea, even though I've been following this one since the first renders, it didn't really sink in how big it is until seeing these pics where its core dwarfs Warren.

And now the headline is: "You may not know the name of this hotel yet, but soon it will be a standout in the Boston skyline". From NIMBY to YIMBY all in the course of one morning. Maybe the editor lurks archBoston. As an aside, there was a really good in-depth blog post last month that...

And they'll be rightly mad. No one should be happy about living in a society where important progress is made impossible by sprawling bureaucracy.

Woah, awesome, I had no idea this River Street redesign was in the works. Fun to discover that something resembling your Google Maps sketches is in fact just months away from reality. Great to see that the entirety of River Street is getting a bus lane and protected bike lane. Kudos to the team...

If you wanted to sustain yourself with just neighborhood spots it would have to be Mike & Patty’s three times a day (not necessarily a bad thing).

My bar for what constitutes justified eminent domain is pretty high. But man, the more this area gets built up, the more 34 Hichborn looks ripe for removal to complete this street grid.