Search results

These look like shots from Map Junction (notice the little red tab/button on right of the first shot). For anyone who hasn't explored it, it's an incredible resource to map Boston over time...

No obvious signs of movement over the last ~6 months, so guessing it was inspection/permitting/elevator testing. Seems extremely overdue, but glad there's some sign of progress here...

The surface lot behind the watch factory would stay I think, but the light colored concrete in my image is a two-level parking deck that the post above says will be demolished for the new housing because it's only used at 6-9% capacity.

The locals yearn for a vacant parking lot that fronts the Charles River. The housing that was already there doesn't count, and it's only new housing that's bad.

Well if we're in the era of using historical resentment to spur annexation of our weaker but closely related neighbors, then I think Boston has cover to do this. I would simply set the municipal boundary at I-95 to keep things easy.

The Brookline Select Board is expected to decide whether to proceed with an override by March 31. Town and school officials say the funding would prevent cutting more than 200 teachers, classroom aides, administrators and other school department employees and dozens of town positions. As a...

Posted elsewhere, but we now have two wind turbine plants putting power on the grid, with Vineyard 1 being nearly at full capacity. With some storms rolling through we just hit a record for most ever wind on ISONE at 1.74GW. At steady state, wind has been doing between 10 and 15% total...

Love this so much. South Station needs some more foot traffic and love from an anchor tenant. Consolidating all those small offices has to be great for morale, and it frees up upper-middle class space elsewhere in the city. Super easy to get to NYC as well. Total no brainer across the board...

But that's not what we have right now; everyone has hand-me-down houses because we aren't building anything. Inverse filtering, where rich people pay $4,000/month for old triple deckers and less-rich people leave the city altogether is not a policy solution. Brand new homes for everyone is...

Sure, and the state is making that harder, even if at the margin, by requiring that 1 of 5 units is fixed for affordable housing. Removing the policy outcome question, this absolutely makes it less likely a given development will get started.

That's an all-in number. From the Globe coverage: The $1 billion estimate provided by P&G Gillette includes construction, land acquisition, and equipment purchase costs. They also note that Gillette sold the land for $80M but we don't yet know what they bought it back for; presumably it's less...

Co-locating massive battery and solar farms on decommissioned nuclear sites isn't a bad start either. Gets away from zoning issues and should have extant grid interconnects available. As noted above, on sunny days with moderate temps, prices go negative, which would be the perfect time to charge...

The last blades are now off the shore and on their way to final assembly. Ever closer to total completion...

It might not end up so different. If designs and engineering were already mostly complete, they could easily swap it from lab to office, maybe fit a few more floors. Don't forget the opposite happened at the Lilly building on Necco street after GE walked away. It was originally rendered for the...

Surprising email with a not-so-surprising underlying issue. It appears that Gillette is going to purchase this parcel from Breakthrough and make it their new headquarters, instead of the original lab building. Given the climate, that stopped making sense as a project, pretty obviously. Email I...

With warmer sunny weather and less regional draw through NECEC and Phase II by Quebec, it's really stark to see how good the grid can look if we had additional capacity available. On top was a cold and snowy day in January requiring massive load (20GW+) with 40% coming from oil, and only ~25%...

Someone needs to just call these people liars. Complaints about densifying Hartwell are patently absurd. It's formally part of Lexington, but culturally it's an industrial zone across the freeway next to a freakin air force base/airport. It's basically part of Bedford, let's be honest. And for...

Isn't it already? From Wikipedia:

You can understand my confusion.

No, that's where Holden elected to place their overlay, which seems like a really bad idea. Maybe one so bad that it was designed to fail in the first place. The "They" in your post is literally your own town deciding where they want to put the district. Seems bad. In your own screenshot, any...