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What's truly spectacular about the endless repetition of the "70-story skyscrapers" mantra is it shows that every.single.last.journalist. who regurgitates it couldn't be bothered to take the ten seconds to study these maps from the final PLAN: Downtown iteration which just got passed. Which...

It did in fact make it on Thursday's BPDA Board meeting Agenda (items #18/19): https://bpda.app.box.com/s/su9f9o73ltf8u3j5iwmhipq4hm9ma2k1 P.S. in the Herald's-gonna-Herald department, the paper did publish this anti-PLAN op-ed...

Per Wikpedia, there are now almost 70 rail trails in Mass., and their combined length is equivalent to the distance on I-95 from Portsmouth to Philly. As late as 1979, however, the year before the Cape Cod Rail Trail opened, there were none. Thus, deep into the adulthood of the Baby Boomers...

This project should be so lucky. In return for a 52-month pause in construction activity (Nov. 2008--April 2013), we got the following: 1.) A "clean slate" at the site where the 1 Franklin residential tower rose--a lot of nasty intensive demolition work was done by the Vornado/Hynes project to...

The criminal stupidity of such a proposal is laid bare by the tens of thousands of preexisting SFH units in metro Boston that be suddenly rendered retroactively illegal. Vast swaths of Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, Quincy, Everett, Medford, Malden, Revere, Saugus--and probably even some of the...

For what it's worth, he's getting beautifully roasted and ratioed in the comments section, with numerous posters ridiculing him for his ridiculous strawman argument.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/opinion/boston-bike-lanes-mass-ave-beacon-street/ From time-to-time, Jeff Jacoby writes thoughtfully-argued opinion pieces. This is not one of them. For those blocked by a paywall, all you have to know is that the entire piece rests on this absolute...

FWIW, here's what the Land Court case docket says about this... some notably pessimistic phrasing here, but of course, as a rule, nobody wants to go to trial, so hopefully a pre-trial settlement emerges, despite the judge's gloomy outlook. As unfortunate as a trial would be, I imagine it could...

Alright, I'm going to bite, given how so far I don't think anyone has pointed out the blindly obvious here: It's bad enough it's an oil company, in terms of the tens of millions of deaths the industry will have on its hands due to fossil fuel-driven climate change. But it's not just any oil...

Quasi-public institution and property are completely separate things. Your conflation of them here is, in my estimation, also a garbage take. Also, what proof do you have that FSG "will be gone soon"? For that matter, what proof do you have that The Red Sox "will not"? There is no guarantee that...

I think the way to best way to frame how dire the situation is to contextualize things within the context of the Halloween '91 aka Perfect Storm. We know that storm was highly catastrophic in terms of the coastline damage it incurred here. It also created the highest tide in Boston since the...

And behold, verily, (checks notes) 2,910 Days After the Planning Dept. was ordered to conduct what became PLAN Downtown, said institution has decided to punt, and now, perhaps, PLAN Downtown might come before the Planning Dept. Board in September. Perhaps. We'll see... ... but hey, again...

Just how long "empty," one might reasonably wonder? Glad you asked! I went on Google Maps and discovered this site morphed into the now-infamous "Pit" no later than July 2012, so it has turned 13. [In contrast the far more infamous/celebrated Filene's site "Pit" in DTX took a mere half-decade...

Hideous indeed--"seizure-inducing," one might even venture. Thanks as always for the explanation. FWIW, I spot about one P&W-branded freighter a month sidetracked/idle on the Providence Line (usually right outside Providence station, but also frequently by the petro farm at the Thurber's Ave...

So, I discovered this mural/homage to the New Haven railroad at the supermarket nearest to where I live, which is a solid 2.5 miles from the NEC/Amtrak corridor/Artist Formerly Known As The NY, NH & H Railroad but hey whatever works for them. It sure looks like the P&W was trying to...

On this topic generally, driving north on Pleasant Valley Pkwy recently, I had quite an eye-opening education re: the transition in socioeconomic status/quality of housing stock as you go north from the Federal Hill plateau toward PC campus and beyond... generally, it seems like Smith Ave is the...

Paging 'Gansett Brewery, your obvious philanthropic initiative has just been issued on the AB forum!: https://www.narragansettbeer.com/blogs/all-blogs/the-return-of-lovecraft-honey-ale?srsltid=AfmBOopcvYde7ICxJ5ZfAiosCiP_9CIzh2o7OYNctOsE6pk3t62JK-Sx

Let me guess: despite your fiery exhortation on May 30 that "everybody on this forum can and must participate in this meeting," you didn't actually attend last night's PLAN Downtown meeting. Thus, to deflect, you drop this gratuitously cynical hot take, which will age about as well as Dewey...

Was anyone able to attend? I couldn't make it, but I've heard that the pro-PLAN Downtown forces were able to muster enough turnout and inspired testimony in favor of PLAN to significantly suppress (if not neutralize) the NIMBY opposition. At this point, in theory it's just a question of which...

https://www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-naacp-calls-end-white-stadium-project In terms of the politics, perhaps not surprising... but still, is this not absurdly late in the game? The City has already been hosting contractor fairs ... this thing is going to happen, folks, absent something...