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It's easy to keep your Councilor seat when you just prevent anyone new from moving into your district by preventing any reasonable housing construction. Ed Flynn is bad.

Nice! I wasn't able to attend but I sent in written testimony. I agree it's an uphill battle as drafted, and it also doesn't help when my councilor goes out and says perhaps the dumbest thing about parking minimum politics. Just abject pants-pissing fear.

Are they saying they want to "install its name" in physical letters like the Pru and State Street or just change the LED paneling to show the text "JP Morgan"? The snippet above reads like the former, but in the article they state the following, which sounds like it's just on the LED panels...

Restricting who can buy houses means the value of any house in those regions will plummet, probably crushing the total wealth of locals who have owned for a long time and may be ready to retire, move, whatever. Giving tax abatements to full time residents (like Boston), therefore taxing part...

I'm sure everyone knows, but for any newcomers this was designated as a landmarked building just last year (map link and report below). The designation on the map is "exterior only" so seems like it would be convertible to housing. Love downtown housing, and living in a historic brutalist...

But to the point above the market rate building next door hasn’t been selling great and their prices have plummeted from the very ambitious $1,500+ psf when initially listed. The lower floors there were very much in a valley and staring into the parking garage across Lagrange

The roads and the T are just too good. If you give people the option they will want to pay less tax, consequences be damned. This rent control question needs to be beaten though…

Yeah I'm not in real estate development but have a number of detailed insights into the lab space construction cycle and like anything fear (of missing out) and greed (of maximizing upside) drove so much of this. Plus, with long business and construction cycles where projects were being planned...

It's kind of an in-between, but the Crown seems like it's trying to do something in this realm? Volvo no longer having sedans is also a total shame. Always a great foil to the Germans, but alas...

I’m sure some innovator somewhere realized fancy cafeterias work and now they’re everywhere especially in underused ground floor lobby space. And in re Michelin I did the see the news and it’s kind of sad we only got a single restaurant with a star…I round it down to 0

Right around the end of the year, coincidentally the same time Vineyard Wind should be at full capacity too. Lots of new, clean energy hitting the grid in 2026. Love to see it.

It's just a food court with 21st century aesthetics and kitchen technology applied. Shared overhead, single common buildout, no waiters/limited front of house, super fast churn (lots of to go options) but now we're in a world where these places don't need to look like a high school cafeteria...

Nah they had a nonstop at least as recently as 2020, because I had a flight canceled by the pandemic and went through hell to get money back after they shut down Logan operations... Some coverage at the time https://onemileatatime.com/royal-air-maroc-boston/

Better to have some activities than just a parking lot, but man does Ballers give some really bad signals about completing those last two towers...

Citroen SM. Weird shape and obviously NOT Italian? Gotta be post-war French.

Not sure if this is the best thread, but seemed appropriate. Just got the email below from Councilor Durkin's policy team. An explicit move to eliminate parking minimums citywide! Link to the hearing https://www.boston.gov/public-notices/16489096 ___________ Hello, You are receiving this...

Yeah I think that's the only real solution here, but responsive to the comment above that MBTA Communities was too convoluted, a detailed statewide zoning map would be orders of magnitude more complex.

Would a better proposal have been flat upzoning statewide? I think the X housing units on Y acres is a bit convoluted, but the concept of "if you have state-funded transit you need to build more housing" is pretty straightforward. My preference would be a statewide override that allowed some...

The whole point of the article is that rapidly rising demand is pricing out locals who were adapted to a lower cost of living, and that it hasn't been replaced with increases in housing supply. Building more housing, especially workforce housing is the answer: Both [worker housing] properties...

If we can't build housing in Western Mass where tourism and service work are kiiiiind of all they have, it's a pretty bad sign for the rest of the commonwealth.