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You’re describing every new housing development in suburban MA from the last 20 years.

If you want to check on the status of a project, there’s a pinned “What’s Happening with Project X” thread you can ask in. Typically it’s a bit of a faux pas to resurrect an old thread without providing solid updates yourself.

Was the Boston Garden the oldest hockey arena in the world at the time of its demolition? Well, no, it wouldn’t have been because Matthews predated it by 18 years. :rolleyes:

Reminds me of Switzerland’s proposed “never over 10M” law. How entitled and short-sighted to say “what it is now is all it ever should be”.

Couldn’t you say that about any old building? Who’s paying to maintain the Copley Library or Trinity Church?

Damn, that’s crazy. Who in their right mind thought that was a good idea?

Welcome to 2015, Beacon Hill!

Is there an example elsewhere in the state where a development like this has attracted shops and restaurants? Consider me firmly in the “why can’t we just build neighborhoods anymore?” camp.

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Cut them off! No state tax money for roads, schools, plows or anything else.

I fail to see how Everett wanting to have its cake and eat it too amounts to being “pushed around” by Boston. If Kraft and the city really believe they don’t need to contribute anything to improving traffic flow through Sullivan Square, then that’s great. They shouldn’t. And they can also figure...

Then Boston should close down Alford Street. Everett can figure the transportation piece out on its own.

I’M NOT! Thanks for reminding me what was lost, though! :cry: That was the best design for a new building here.

Ugh. Don’t start talking like this or we’ll neeeeever get rid of it!

You know, as excited as I am about a new library and more housing, I do have to agree that the “before” looked nicer. Still, this is the Boston neighborhood where architecture goes to die, so I personally can’t feel too upset about it. If the city wanted the West End to be at all contextual...

Know I’m very late with this, but “Medford Square” is really just a stand-in for “Downtown Medford”. Much like “Harvard Square” or “Rozzie Square” aren’t necessarily limited to a single intersection, the same is true here.

Braintree and Waltham ARE cities just as much as Cambridge or Somerville. And in any other place in the WORLD (not just LA, but England, Japan, Brazil, India. etc) those cities (and yes, Burlington too) would all just be ‘Boston’. We’re the only place I know of where certain communities get...

Ah yes, Milton - famously 45min from Boston proper. 🙄 If Saugus builds to the point where it is as dense as Dorchester, then I’ll happily allow it to start “under building”. The fact of the matter is that these “sleepy suburbs” have been ignoring their responsibility to add housing for decades...

Real question - would the city of Boston legally be able to shut down Alford Street if it wanted?

Was only trying to take a picture of the parking signs this past Friday. Just realized there was a pretty sunset happening in the background: