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Getting out of the revs game and walking onto the casino floor and just goin straight across to the Chinese restaurant 🔥 I love urbanism

I think moderates like Maura need to realize that the more you squeeze renters every year, the demands are only going to get stronger until you have some version of NYC’s laws and politicians that support them. They had their “shot” with the communities act (which hasn’t reduced costs) but in...

Wouldn't you want more wind turbines anyway since the missiles would presumably explode if they impacted one?

When has anyone in the government ever been concerned with reining in transit costs? If the AG wants to grandstand about this they should figure out why we have to pay significantly more than peers for the same work

Honestly it does seem like a good use of space. We don't get a lot of thin buildings anymore like that. Though, "architecture towards neutral" is an almost too on-the-nose indictment of the state of architecture in 2025, lol.

I do like the implication that there is exactly one competent official in the entire MassDOT apparatus so they just have to use him everywhere

We should get some guys together and put up some new ones at Hynes, Forest Hills, etc. I can borrow hard hats and vests from work.

I don't really find the fact that a public project has slowly escalating project costs to be interesting/news to me. That doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the Legacy will use the stadium 10 years from now or not.

This is just pure robbery by consultants if it costs 70 million dollars to make this work. The T needs to root out the culture that we have to take these firms at their word...

You’re talking to ChatGPT. I wouldn’t bother.

To me this building is the end of Corporate Memphis art, the idea that our rentiers are fun, colorful, diverse, and yet apolitical. This building, while a product of capital accumulation and speculation, actually succeeds in marrying the aesthetic aspirations of corporate America to something...

This all reminds me of this funny email I got from the CRA a while ago.

CX needs to do their part and lower the rent on the retail storefronts to attract tenants. And Cambridge needs to up their vacancy tax on retail

I know what the law, which changes every 4 years, says. In my book, anyone who comes here to come build a life for themself and their families and contribute to our culture and economy is an American. Don't really care what color someone is or where they were born. Just like my dad, your family...

These people aren't illegal, they are Americans and it's sad that you've read so many facebook posts that you now support putting them in camps. Is the idea here that we have a bunch of lazy im"migrants" living large off the dole, and that we let them do this for basically no reason? Were you...

I also resent the idea that we should be wanting to go to breweries or tatte. There are a lot of people in Camberville who spend a lot of money on the local economy who enjoy neither!

You would need single stair reform for anything else to be feasible. The large floorplate is an artifact of the double loaded corridor

5% a year seems like a pretty good compromise all things considered as compared to a rent freeze or a rule that's below inflation. Buildings are not valued based on their maintenance costs, they're valued based on rent increasing forever. Buildings will have to take a haircut in value (and thus...

Well, we'll need to do it when I get my four track mainline to Portland, ME /s

That’s true but if we’re in a lending environment that expects sky high rents to increase 5% a year forever, how are we supposed to do anything at all ever anymore? If I were a politician I would start to think IZ is the only countermeasure against that if rent control isn’t allowed, as short...