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Not quite accurate. You're looking at the original drawings that compared the 2022 and 2025 versions. The recent debate that led to final approval was based around the 2025 version (the thinner building) with 5 or 6 stories.

I think you're missing what I'm saying. Everyone would not win. Municipal tax dollars are not play-money funbucks. I am fine with extraneous developer profits, but not when they are coming from the pockets of taxpayers. We could get the same amount of housing built out with less subsidy...

I don't know if this is the way to go for Massachusetts. If IZ requirements suddenly dropped to 0 (by being 100% subsidized by municipalities), we would end up with a wave of developers making profits hand-over-fist for a decade before supply stabilized as market rate rents decreased to the cost...

Special permit approved for 10 Converse Place (renamed 33 Mount Vernon St). This permit is for a revised proposal, with only 5 stories and 37 units compared to the prior 6-story 38-unit version...

Bro you're using quadruple exclamation points and anger emojis. That's like definitionally popping off. Chill out.

The Chelsea/Everett developments are looking particularly filled out now

A bit of a non sequitur, but does anyone happen to know the history of all those plus-sign-shaped condos in the background of that picture? There are a number of condo developments littered with that same distinctive shape and roof color around the Commonwealth, both in the Ashland area and up...

Cool, but people don't fly. From the closest point on the property, it's a 0.8 mile walk along 4-lane roads. You cannot tell me anyone would willingly walk or bike this route unless they had no other option.

The dormer treatment and shingled mansard look way better than the renders. Great to see!

Glad they were able to downsize from 42 parking spaces to 35. Such a convenient walkable location next to a Fairmount line stop.

Munich S-Bahn pulls something like 30 tph on two tracks through its center, and while that's definitely straining capacity, I don't see how you couldn't get at least 40 tph from a quad-track tunnel with good ops. Agree with you on all of these, my calculus was pretty much just that, as much as...

Has anyone ever considered the tunnel through Everett as an extension of the commuter rail? I know it sounds insane, but if we had a world with electrified commuter rail service and the 4-tracked NSRL, there would be additional capacity on the north side of the NSRL, probably to the tune of...

I don't imagine the traffic within Dover or any other exurb would become unmanageable, but if you put an extra few hundred thousand commuters on the road, it would be hell for the highways. Park-and-rides could solve that for inner core commutes, but 128 commuting could be 24-hour gridlock. In...

Anyone have thoughts on the Legalize Starter Homes ballot initiative? As much as I'd like to be in favor of more open zoning policy, it feels like this will not lead to conscious development. 5000sqft lots (~8 units/acre) are pretty much right in that sweet spot for maximizing pain: not dense...

How would you even go about styling an NFL stadium so that it doesn't seem out of scale in this location? They can't exactly make it smaller.

I disagree, I think its grandeur is quite fitting for the location. I would expect nothing less from a stadium situated at the end of East Capitol St with a direct line of sight to the Capitol. This is DC, after all.

Any info on BEMU performance comparisons to those?

Hmm ok so I have a hypothesis about the townhouses. From some admittedly very surface-level research, it appears that in MA we generally classify townhouses as "multi-family", while in VA it is considered "single-family attached". This distinction may have significance in terms of inclusionary...

Thanks for linking that planning doc, pretty interesting read. Cheverly station is just about as bad as it gets, though. 2nd lowest ridership station in the whole WMATA system, and it's basically just a convenient station location on the way to a more important terminus at New Carrollton. Not...

With the state taking inventory of underutilized state-owned land that could be used for housing, does anyone know if there are proposals for these massive parcels around the Old Colony Corrections Center? Seems like the perfect place for a dense master-planned community + infill commuter rail...