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Peebles is basically a con man at this point. FWIW, I found out when I googled this just now that MARTA reopened bidding yesterday on the TOD/station rebuild he had won there in 2022. Seems like a good precedent for the MBTA to follow.

The difference is that we have a deck, not a hole, if this happens. Hopefully the City could lean on whatever owner ends up with it to put in some sort of temporary plaza while we wait for demand to come back (or for some residential developer to buy the air rights). The deck has been built to...

Unlike GE, the location near South Station may allow some to stay in Pawtucket and commute by train...

Transportation presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/111JB_t_VJznPugRnjmeTeyXN1Y7XlY49/view?usp=drive_link

You're correct, it is HYM. Hines properties in Boston include SST, a couple of buildings in the Back Bay, and partnership in the Cambridge Point scheme near Alewife.

There are a few different ways regions have ended up with separated NBA/NHL arenas, a big one being that arenas designed for one alone do not always easily accommodate the other (why it was necessary to build a dedicated arena for the Islanders, for example, and one cited reason the Coyotes...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema-live/s3fs-public/2025-08/CraigieSt3SomervilleAve675_ZP25-000017_ArchitecturalPlans.pdf Small housing to replace the Wilson Square gas station.

Once again, this article does not include a single quote from the Celtics (a small minority owner is quoted). It simply takes it as a given that they can't not pursue a new arena given how much they paid for the team (despite the logical supposition that this would have consumed the owners'...

I hear you, and that is more or less what the designer said... https://www.mass.gov/info-details/seal-flag-and-motto-round-three-selections#seal-submissions But the indigenous members of the Committee told the Globe they didn't want it. I feel like their opinion is pretty decisive. FWIW...

They can't keep the one we have for the same reason they can't use the Mass Bay Colony flag. The whole point is to not use genocidal imagery. What seems to be happening here is that the whole panel voted on a huge number of submissions and these were the top three, but individual members of the...

And then there were three... https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/28/metro/massachusetts-state-flag-redesign-recommendations/ I've been kind of partial to the red ones all week, but I didn't want to admit it because the pine tree is an important regional symbol as we move into an era of "soft...

Their follow up: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/28/metro/trump-administration-south-station-response/ This is some piss-poor journalism right here. First, the headline and lede pretend this is a question, when it is not (some real NYT Pitchbot material). Then it claims that "Since South...

I have no idea why the Globe reported that as if it could happen. South Station belongs to MassDOT. There is no mechanism by which USDOT could simply claim it - it would be theft and is unconstitutional (yes, Trump is doing lots of unconstitutional things, but again there is no mechanism by...

Is this the worst development in the Boston Area right now, just kind of on the full assessment? https://www.universalhub.com/2025/developer-proposed-american-legion-highway-apartment-complex-stripped Also, calling BS on this: You a$$Holes would have taken it out no matter what happened. You...

What part are you complaining about? The only sections of the station this project built were a ceiling for the platforms and the arched space. The platforms of all the stations we're discussing are about equally unpleasant, so the real comparison here is of the South Station headhouse as built...

The Stoss website mentions that they won it, but I couldn't find any public record of their proposal - I guess there might be something in the meeting slides this weekend.

Yeah, upon which the likely new owner of Citgo will be... I don't have any f-ing clue who these people are: https://www.dalinarenergy.com/ They seem to have been founded solely to buy Citgo, having been funded by the Koch Brothers and Gold Reserve, Inc, which is a US-based co-owner of two...

The fact that cities much denser, busier, and more exciting than Boston exist (Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris) and remain quite tenable, reasonable, and livable cuts against that argument. The Back Bay is a sleepy cow town compared to those places and still would be if the Celtics...

I hope it's more. Main Street frontage should go above 6 stories.

I think it goes to what the park does for the museum. If it's meant to complement the activities of the museum by providing open space, then MoS does kind of fail at that. If it's meant to visually set the museum back from streets and frame it in a setting that enhances its aesthetic appeal and...