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Fair point. In any case, I think that this particular site is probably high-profile enough that if Samuels or someone else came to the Mayor with a proposal for a lot of homes and some measure of plaza on the deck, they'd be likelier to get a pizza party than a slammed door.

We're on a forum that has pages of residential development projects started in Boston under this Mayor...

That "no front-of-house costs" thing is probably a big part of it.

I was going to say this shouldn't be buried in the Residential Conversions thread, but it turns out we already had one for it :)

I meant R3, thanks. In any case, I believe they're using the most recent massing models MITIMCO put out for R3 at 456', but they could go taller. The roof height for 121 is 476' when it was originally proposed at 400' zoning height, so that implies that R3 could be anywhere from shorter than...

I could be proven wrong, but I think they're going with the zoning height for R3 there while using the actual roof height of their own building (121 Broadway). R3 will be a few dozen feet taller than that, probably, depending on mechanicals and ornamentation.

...and into the arms of the party that kidnaps people off the streets with armed fascist goons, then illegally cuts aid that keeps people from starving to death, all while pushing baseless conspiracy theories about Tylenol. But sure, some Democrat once said the word "reparations", so that's...

Oh, you're totally right on both points.

The gnarlyness is a product of roads being chopped up by the airport and expressway. Here it is in 1955 - the airport has already claimed most of the houses, but the outline of the roads is still there. The few houses left on Neptune Road lasted all the way into the 1980s. You can also see...

There's a few things that separate the Boston situation from Dallas. First (and most importantly), the Celtics have still made no comment to indicate that this is a problem. Sure, they're probably seeding some of these stories, but the Mavs/Stars situation has been building for years in public...

I think they are, right? Fenway Center is also failing.

I know this makes it sound like I hate it, and I don't, but the facade looks like something you'd find in the Yankee Candle factory. Why is there fake mansard behind ground-level fake 1950s car dealership facade? Did AI design this? Honestly, we're probably less than a year from actual...

@vanshnookenraggen @BeeLine can you move it?

Why it's criminal that the Blue Line does not go to Salem, in one map.

When MAGA is gone.

Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/17/business/lila-ai-science-lab-space/ I see AI is going to be the new Alewife tenant of choice...

Is that the narrative you took from this interview? It seemed to me like it was all about innovative management and construction techniques that often involved demand management. Most of the bridges he was talking about are 2 lanes wide... are you suggesting MassDOT just get rid of them...

The whole project is going surprisingly slowly. It's possible the plaza work is tied directly to the road reconstruction.

I get it, but also you can't ask passersby to make a serious study of the building before forming their opinion. To me it feels like this, but for buildings:

Everett may be (under the current mayor who is buried in scandal and probably won't be around much longer), but the track record for Boston and Kraft isn't great.