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Right, because breaking the state limit for how hard you can tax commercial property *during a commercial property downturn* is good public finance for a city. And pray tell, why should residents get a property tax break? Last I checked property owners are pretty well off? No matter one's...

What an absolutely ridiculous statement. Who do you think maintains all the private parks in Boston? In New York City, where the most notable parks in Manhattan are run by private foundations? If funding parks well led to a notable increase in taxes, we'd be in a serious hole of financial...

If you don't want to see buildings when you're in the Arboretum, shouldn't the Arboretum buy all the land around it so you can't see those buildings? But wait, then that land would be in the Arboretum and you could see buildings from it.

It's interesting to compare this project to the Dot Ave rezoning projects, where they're planning parks along interior streets surrounded by towers of res/commercial and not putting them directly on Dot Ave. And Dot Ave is much less busy.

The Southie busses are some of the most frequent in the City and have very short rides places you want to go.

That's a hell of a lot of parking. Incl restoring city owned parking lots....

The sociology of (academic) architecture.

Is there a sense of when the contract will be awarded for the other half of the project, the pedestrian connections to the Esplanade?

This is great. So much housing and actual activation for Boston Ave instead of leaving it a wasteland of rail on one side and parking lots on the other. Height is the way to go.

Possible he can sue here...

Car wash does good business.

It does feel very strange that no one is proposing resi towers here, where it would be an easy sell and lots of $$ could be made.

Wow. That's really ncie

Ah yes, the truly terrible East Cambridge zoning...

There's no hotels really in the South End, which is a pain for locals with family visiting and for tourists who want to stay in a neighborhood, especially given Boston's tight AirBnB rules. People are paying well over 300 a night to stay at a holiday inn off of 93 in Charlestown, near...

Looks like a slightly more varied version of the Midtown Hotel redevelopment. Seems a little silly not to go much taller here, esp given the zoning for the bank across the street and what will likely come up at Parcel 15, but nice looking building.

The 1149-55 Harrison Building is pretty crazy. 3 stories, surface parking, well below even the city's paltry density limits. Wondering what the story is here...exactly 10 units doesn't buy you relief, nor does limiting yourself to 3 stories?

Boston has had one of the tightest, if not the tightest, hotel market in the continental US for years now. Construction costs would be hard to see given this building is already over 6 stories and needs a gut rehab. We can be friendly here.

Why did they shrink the glass hotel portion? These developers are insane.

Good case for off-site here given that offsite is literally 3 blocks away