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And since it's six floors, it's by right. They can't do much. It's not the prettiest stretch of Huron, but he's not making it any prettier...

The snow enhances this, but that building looks like it should be located in Nunavut or Greenland.

My goodness what a terrible article that is. They did a whole zoning process to identify places where density would work, and developers are proposing in those places - vacant lots, empty parking lots, low-rise office parks, Hartwell Avenue, but heaven forbid. 89 Bedford Street is located 0.1...

I don't think you can do a "martini lunch and marriage proposal" operation like Top of the Hub with a $40 cover charge just to use the elevator... The bottom line is that operating costs for an observatory are functionally just utilities, running dedicated elevators, and having some safety...

The person leading the comprehensive planning effort that could result in many positive urbanist outcomes is not inherently a bad actor, nor is she inevitably stupid to be annoyed that this project is short-circuiting it. Depending on the details one could get there, but if you advocate "not...

I'm not sure I believe this was terribly well thought-through as to how this funds the community college. If they partnered with a developer to put apartments and needed space on the parking lot while maintaining the forest in a conserved state, and presented that whole plan to the neighbors, I...

The leaders in this case blew the messaging. One need only go back a single page in this thread to see our reactions, which were no different than the neighbors'. This is some deeply disingenuous language: . They didn't know it was false when they pushed it - it looked for all the world like...

Excellent.

Maybe, but as recorded in this thread even the Town employees didn't know what was planned, and that contributed heavily to the sense of panic around losing the forest. They should subdivide the lot and either sell/give the wooded portion to the Town or transfer it within the Commonwealth to...

Per the Globe the state is now claiming they only want to build on the parking lot itself. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/15/business/wellesley-housing-parking-lot/ The article frames opposition as NIMBYism and fears about building on the forest as overwrought, but honestly, that's what...

Key quote there: "he would want the Bruins to be part of it". So the notion of a separate Celtics arena is - to all appearances - dead and was never alive.

DPIR: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/dksssaeodjp8sxk82iyx2ktbquat05nu

Kind of crazy they found a tenant... they can all live in the new building on Mystic Valley Parkway (while Assembly gets on with building some more units) :) My concern with the rest of the property is that while they have intentions to expand, it doesn't sound imminent. The aviation part of...

Only if you believe a station can be built anywhere near here due to the grade. It can't. This is a donation to some consultant...

Surely they will not be using a Boston address :). I'm surprised they haven't renamed an interior roadway to make it "1 Revolution Drive". Incidentally, 1 Dexter Street is the address of whatever facility uses what will be the stadium access road. They have a sign now:

Last time I drove by this, it looked like it had gone vertical.

Beyond Wu, I think it's worth broadly laying this out - per the Globe's numbers , Kraft is paying $138 million (or 25% of the inflation-adjusted cost of Gillette Stadium) for the privilege of privately financing a stadium in the Boston inner core. That number is a little wishy-washy given that...

If this is general pessimism, then fine, it's probably warranted given the saga of this project, but Wu has endorsed this deal and has $48 million of infrastructure improvements riding on it. The whole point of this agreement is that she's not killing it. As noted prior, Wu intervened on behalf...

I just did the measurement - from the new headhouse, across the footbridge, around the shoreline, and under the bridge, it will be 0.87 miles to Assembly without ever touching a road. It's about 0.75 miles to Sullivan using much less friendly infrastructure. That's a bit farther than Harvard...

I don't think highly of DeMaria, but a tip of the cap for getting $17.5M for the Orange Line headhouse.