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Eliminate the annoying realtor and their annoying, incredibly redundant sales patter and the annoying graphics and only preserve the drone footage and then maybe you've got something worth watching! ;)

"The other downtown application is from Adam Burns of Boston Pinnacle Properties, for the conversion of 281 Franklin St. into 15 units. Burns has an agreement in place to buy the six-story, nearly 13,000-square-foot property for $3.8 million, he said. The West End applications are from the...

BBJ story on 129 Tremont and 85 Devonshire (plus its immediate abutters) being set-up for residential conversion: https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/12/18/boston-office-to-residential-conversions-2024.html 129 Tremont is drop-dead gorgeous, and interesting things are happening up...

Approved.

Then, for the sake of logical consistency, you better have a big problem with numerous other Downtown office towers that have public-way lobbies, but don't have giant signage outside advertising "COME ON IN!" (or words to that effect). 33 Arch, 101 Arch, 99 Summer, 1 Lincoln, 100 Federal, 75-101...

Great to hear! You also answered one of the questions that came immediately to mind--where are these G&W tourist trains kept sheltered from the elements and kept in handsome condition suitable for these types of fun excursions?

I just love the fact that there's surely some accounting honcho/comptroller type at the Genesee & Wyoming RR, and, for 99.7% of the year, they're reviewing unforeseen/incidental expenses relating to the continuous conveyance of bulk commodities. This freight car got unexpectedly bashed a bit...

I would not have guessed that! Informative as always, thanks [and I presume ample photographic documentation will brought home for me to scrutinize vis-a-vis how far uptrack they end up going...]

So, admittedly it's a little weird to put this in the Freight thread--but given that it involves activities of the Genessee & Wyoming RR, it really seems like the most logical thread to add this to. Anywho... my wife had the foresight to buy tickets for her and our 6-yr-old, months in advance...

Why am I bumping the thread?: 1.) These guys suddenly appeared in my Instagram scroll, so I was intrigued. Perhaps that means they're social-media savvy, for whatever the hell that might be worth in this ecosystem. 2.) So I checked-out their website, which does not appear to have been posted...

Do they, now? Have you conducted extensive polling of said citizens? And what do you mean, exactly, when you say, "nothing ever happens in their city"? You've just made a massively vague and generic assertion here, so I'd sincerely love to see it reinforced by actual qualitative or quantitative...

Googling "One Carey Circle encroachment railroad", I found this informative thread, now of nearly eight years' vintage, including some illuminating comments by some of the "usual suspects" here on AB: https://railroad.net/remnants-of-the-boston-revere-beach-amp-lynn-t38000-45.html Nearly a...

The BPDA's development review process continues to move along at a breathtaking pace: a mere 1,123 days after the project was proposed . . . there will be a public meeting to discuss it: https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/calendar/2023/11/28/11-21-bromfield-street-public-meeting (In...

I have been in that cohort for some time, *exploiting the delta.* I'm continuously impressed by how many riders there are on the Providence line during non-rush hour times in the afternoon, on days when I have to leave work early...

I'd argue that chart pretty much proves my point--the US, Canada, and Australia, as continent-sized countries, have gotten away with piggish housing sizes as a result of their sprawling low-density settlement patterns. Surely Russia and China would've done the same, if they weren't so poor and...

Wow, obviously I had no idea it was such a heavily-used station pre-pandemic--informative as always!

Any future hypothetical South Attleboro station is just 2.6 miles uptrack from the Pawtucket one. If the Pawtucket one is "too nice," then, practically speaking, given its proximity, hasn't it already cannibalized a critical portion of any ridership at the potential South Attleboro rebuilt...

Tiny, perhaps, from the piggish American perspective. But, seriously, consider what legit 500 sf delivers to two occupants, if you want to carve it into TWO bedrooms for privacy: --a master bedroom that's 125 sf --a secondary bedroom that's 100 sf --a 100 sf living room --a 100 sf kitchenette...

In an ideal world, this project completes, with residential/retail occupancy achieved, simultaneous with RIDOT's plan to relocate the transit hub from Kennedy Plaza... but now that this is underway, I suspect this will be done several years before the transformation of downtown's bus hub.

Count me as an "others"... surveying that row, 129 Tremont (at the Winter St. corner) is clearly a gem, but 128 & 127 Tremont strike me as quite generic, bland, unremarkable. Ditto that for 120 Tremont, the SU Law School. You can overdo it on "respectable dialogue/contextuality with...