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Just to echo all the positive commentary, for me this is probably the most dramatic development transformation in Boston since I’ve started following this stuff. The lighting and landscaping are well executed and I really like how they make the views of the highway part of the attraction of the...

Franklin Block - Historic Rehab (21 units) Essex Street Lofts - Historic Rehab (42 units)

A good deal of development activity in Haverhill -- Merrimack Street Redevelopment Project - (370-420 residential units, 50K sf of retail/restaurant space) Demolition and site prep has begun on this 4.5 acre site which includes the redevelopment of a former city-owned parking garage and...

Interesting that there is also a South Korean flag in what appears to be the MBTA conference room.

Foxborough has to be among the most virulently anti-housing towns in the Commonwealth. The MBTA zoning question was to re-zone a total of 50 acres (about 0.004 percent of the Town's land area) for multi-family and it failed overwelmingly. I question the wisdom of concentrating so much...

The Residences at the Franco - 80 apartments This is proposed for the UMass Lowell area - maybe a mile or so outside Downtown - at 357 Pawtucket Street --

I think this has a lot of promise. A huge area along the subway line north and south of Medford Street is just a sea of parking lots and one-story industrial buildings and shopping centers, so it's as primed for redevelopment as anything else. This would also give Everett a subway stop within a...

The little Winthrop Square park is well done. Nicely scaled, well landscaped and frames the historic building nicely.

It’s a shame that power line wasn’t buried —

Nice Seaport addition —

This looks suspiciously like a 5-story project and not a 4-story one :) (which I'm completely on board with)

When you say expensive, how bad are we talking? I walked through the lobby for the first time the other day and noticed it. It looked worth checking out but also gave off very expensive vibes.

Demolition begins at Waldo-Durgin site, paving way for major Coolidge Corner development https://brookline.news/demolition-begins-at-waldo-durgin-site-paving-way-for-major-coolidge-corner-development/

A few different perspectives from yesterday (7-27) -

I think part of it is just basic infrastructure investment. The Ladder District streets between Washington and Tremont are not in great shape. Better lighting, landscaping, wider pedestrian paths, masonry surfaces - all of that would go a long way.

Electrification has been billed as a way to increase the speed of service. So for example, from Lowell it currently takes about 45 minutes on the train to North Station - eight stations on about 25 miles of track. Approximately how much time savings would electrification result in on the Lowell...

Thank you for all the info. That is a lot of brick. It looks like certain areas will be reserved for artwork so I question whether the brick background is necessary. Boston could use some more public art downtown and I’d be in favor of making the entire structure a canvas for that.

I believe this is a ventilation structure for the Tunnel (located just west of One Financial Center). Not sure what they’re doing exactly - replacing or refacing it?

Interesting plaza design. Looks like pretty minimal changes to the exterior of the building itself: https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/55-summer-street

6-8-24 from the Greenway and the Seaport —