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Jeez I hate this. Scary how easily we could have ended up here.

1 Western Ave doesn't get enough ridicule, because it's terrible in a way that's subtler than some of Boston's more infamous buildings. They took five cheap apartment blocks, that on their own could go unnoticed, and stacked them atop one another in a gimmicky way such that you're forced to pay...

A timely bit of news relevant to this discussion; Uber is exiting the game: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/07/uber-sells-self-driving-unit-uber-atg-in-deal-that-will-push-auroras-valuation-to-10b/ I would read this as much more of a statement on Dara and not the entire industry though.

This humongous sunk cost signals that we will either get something pretty sizable here or nothing at all. Gonna take a lot of new square footage to pay for renovating/incorporating this.

Has to be one of the funnier, snarkier lines I've read in one these "What We Heard" sections.

Why would they be up to the fifth floor on the east half of the structure and pause after the first floor on the west half? I don’t think I’ve seen that before.

2 more floors, plus mechanicals, to go if I’m counting correctly

To me, the obvious trick to boost vaccine uptake is to take the “normal life” activities people want to get back and to gate them based on vaccination status. Bring live sports back as early as possible in 2021. Require stadiums to check for proof of vaccination upon entry. Ticketmaster is...

It's moved, closed, and reopened, but Keezer's suits has been open in Cambridge since 1895. Had one of their tuxedos for junior prom.

I'm positive this comparison has been made before, but urban renewal pictures like this honestly look like European cities after being bombed out in WW2. Except we did it to ourselves.

I'm not going to bother digging up the post, but someone on this board in the last month claimed that none of us will see autonomous vehicles in our lifetimes. By 2035? I'm not sure if I would take the over or under on that. The history of machine learning has involved long periods of "AI...

I swear we wouldn’t have electricity running to every home if NIMBYism and Thomas Edison had been contemporaries.

Oof.

Moving forward after the rezoning spurred by Harbor Garage https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/06/business/plans-condo-tower-hook-lobster-site-finally-move-forward/?outputType=amp&event=event25&__twitter_impression=true Edit: whoops, beat out by @12345

PNF confirms that 1 Cumberland is a goner.

Wild that every single peak in that photo was built in the last 5 years.

Wow, you’re having a foggy one in Boston today! Thought the webcams weren’t working at first. Yes, @eddy2698, many larger projects have webcams, that can be found from the developer or construction company’s website

Can someone explain this line of thinking to me? Let's ignore other motivations such as avoiding pushback against a 500 footer, and also assume that 500' does mean more units than 382'. MITIMCo is afraid that the number of units at this larger size would introduce a glut in the market. I...

+ Pedestrianize and landscape the first block of Portland St and you’re really in business!

Comparing the render to this angle of the existing conditions makes it appear that 1 Cumberland St. will be demolished.