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Great, an exurban shopping mall + highway exit office park all rolled into one, on real estate literally sitting next to the edge of the urban core.

I’m sorry, but 30 million dollars for a small library in an outlying neighborhood is absolutely ridiculous.

Good height but I’d bet a lot of money that the corner facade is gonna look like shitty cheap plastic and will age rapidly

Hideous

I completely agree. Transfers are fine—if the connection is not a long wait. Lack of frequency is why I usually choose to drive to work, rather than wait for an often unpredictably long time for a connection due to not working a normal schedule. If frequencies improved, I would never drive to work.

It’s slightly better — and slightly more justified given it’s not built on displaced people’s homes and not smack in the middle of a city — but it uses all the same principles, namely, a slice of the city where you don’t have to deal with the city. But yeah, much better overall. But they could...

Cambridge Crossing, aka, West End 2

I’m somewhat for a congestion zone, but wish the state would instead do whatever needs to be done to toll 93, and maybe 95 as well.

If you go to mapjunction.com, you can find the old maps and trace all of its tributaries—Canterbury Brook being a biggie, but there was a stream that went almost to Roslindale Sq, too. Kind of sad, really, to think how ubiquitous streams are when you walk in the woods, and realizing how many...

It’s the Stony Brook. Runs right under the car wash at the emporium and then curves thru the property behind.

Wow, that looks seriously nice

That’s too bad to hear. It’s just a horrible road, honestly, esp between FH and Canterbury. Very tight lanes, smushed right up against parked cars, fast drivers. I think they could at least do some sort of compromise like make the outbound leg between Ukraine and points south one lane for...

Nobody would ever take the Needham Line commuter rail from this location—it’s just the usual buzzword nonsense, using “ToD” so the developer gets to check boxes and get a building approved. However, this area is on a prime bus route right to Forest Hills. Even at this hour, google maps gives me...

It's pretty astounding how bad it is. At least with the business campus it has green quadrangles and it's nice to walk through. Is it just not possible to do good design by institutions anymore? I think @Longfellow is dead on in bemoaning the degree of rot at the big places. No matter what, you...

I think Everett has gotten way too many individual threads for buildings that architecturally are unimpressive blobs. Good development and housing contributions, but nothing special. I personally think the uniqueness of contribution, and location, should also factor into what gets its own...

This.

This is veering into other thread territory, but I think that's not a helpful attitude and it's one that we collectively contribute to on here too often. There's nothing "super-privileged" about people not wanting change; that's just the way most people are and it's not crazy to want one's...

Not sure what you’re trying to do here; Ellery, Dana, and Trowbridge are all streets that fit the description I gave. The “end of the street” argument could be made for any number of similar roads in JP with respect to the Orange Line. It’s called a neighborhood, which can change quickly. I...

Higher, higher! Taller, taller!

This is actually a big deal. Slowly but surely.