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Real estate deals are announced all the time, but it blows me away that the 51-55 building at >33,000 sf is only trading at $4.6M. Even with another $4.5M in renovations that is a bargain for that much space. It's a beautiful historic building on Tontine Crescent right in the center of town...

It's also as backward looking as rent control. If you believe in growth and an expanding city, you've gotta let the pie grow! Zero sum swapping of licenses does nothing to look to the future. What about Channelside on Fort Point? What about future air rights parcels? There will be new...

I've posted this elsewhere, but there's a pretty straightforward business-friendly approach that both makes licenses more available and also prevents the real issue, which is fear of asset forfeiture/devaluation experience by current license holders. Make it revenue neutral to reset the system...

Test your luck with the Southie locals by underbuilding parking...last time they tried that, Rep Lynch came down from Washington to yell at the Council and got a project canceled on the spot (below). Plus, the adjacent building uses that surface lot for their parking, so guessing the developers...

Oh my lord, could you imagine? New #1 for proposed residential conversions. The old Winthrop building would top this, but not much else:

So good. I walked through that part of Allston about a week ago and the density around most of Harvard and intersecting streets is great but it just falls off a cliff the further north you go. So many old light industrial plots around there. Current property owners must be very happy with these...

Great analysis, thanks for that. I didn't appreciate how profitable parking fines have been for the city, wow. Yeah simply increasing the cost of tickets would be massively accretive with zero marginal costs. If you want to stand tall and just eat ticket costs, go for it.

All the more reason to push every lever to build/convert as much housing downtown as possible. It's the perfect cure for both slumping sub-Grade-A office space and lack of housing. Post Office Square and the pedestrianized Washington St corridor should be vibrant 24-7 neighborhoods. PLAN...

We could also have tiered ticket pricing for repeat offenders. Even something steep, like they increase 25% after your first 10 or something. You really don't need a car in that section of Seaport/Fort Point, and if you want one you should be prepared to pay for it.

NECEC goes online today! Great success for a cleaner grid after a really tumultuous history. I think history will look unkindly on the efforts to stop this from the environmental organizations. https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/13/necec-power-line-to-begin-commercial-operations-friday/...

Weird not working for me on mobile or laptop either.

Fine, but F this guy and what he's let happen to the Tannery building across the street (see: https://www.universalhub.com/2026/controversial-boylston-street-landlord-wants-convert-office-space) Might have to write into the public comments and be supportive but urge the city to actually use the...

I’d just encourage people who claim to believe in material progress to do the actual thing (adding a ton of housing) and that it is not in fact bad because it doesn’t look like the buildings that were there before. Buildings age and they need replacing, and if you’re serious about improving...

American culture has decided, across the spectrum, that aesthetics are morality, and it’s led to a lot of brain dead decisions on things that actually matter. What it means to make housing and urbanism “better” suffer under this thinking and we now have perverse outcomes across the board.

I'm the first to criticize the expansion of IZ, but there are many fully commercial buildings that were proposed but never started. Right down the street from this project the Skanska project at 380 Stuart has been at a standstill for at least a year. The lab collapse has also halted some big...

Presumably this has to be right near the waterfront around the "South Lawn" right? The bridge is still on piers as it approaches the shore, so maybe that's more of a challenge? The tracks behind the casino go right to the property line, and north of there is a pretty bleak industrial zone and...

South Station fare gates go live tomorrow. Presume that means the bus entrance can also open but no mention in the article…. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/29/metro/south-station-fare-gates/

If you’re talking about the end that fronts the actual open harbor, that wall is entirely glass across the whole end of the structure. It may look like a black wall in the photos but it will give stunning views to anyone at that end of the building.

I don't want to sound too snarky, because this is super helpful background and really interesting from the pure technology side, but the problem for me is that thing in Framingham looks one million times uglier and more visible than just throwing some PV on it and calling it a day. I honestly...

Important little fact here. Going from nothing to something when it comes to housing is a great use of public funds at this small of a percentage. Curious what the estimated tax revenues will be once this is complete: Portico, which is being financed in part through a $226 million construction...