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The one on the right is actually a gut reno. We'll miss those trees for sure! But at least they're filling the lot up.

It wouldn't cost a billion dollars if we could behave and not hire consultants to manage consultants.

I 100% agree, I have no idea why that feature is getting praised in this forum, it's ugly and looks like it's halfway done falling apart.

I mean that would be incredibly based, right? When people say they want stuff to be significantly cheaper it specifically requires that. Someone has to hold the bag. And everyone will be smug and say, "I don't know why that guy paid $1m for a condo that's falling apart!" when really, we wished...

I think that definitely makes sense from your perspective but realistically -- there is no law that can bring back Sligo. Was genuinely shocked that people thought it would reopen should the tower be killed. The Burren will be gone eventually. Harvard square is as good as dead in terms of the...

Yeah but what if it was considered better for society and for Somerville to have more people in it? We are dense already, yes (and most of that is because a low % of land dedicated to institutions, airports, parks, commercial, etc. as compared to Boston and Cambridge) but it should not be...

What is a little frustrating is that so little circumstances are known about this case. It would be great to know the circumstances so advocates can focus on the right things here. Was it the street design? Was it another under-a-truck collision?

The word from in somerville is that a plan for davis was supposed to be issued, and then it was delayed because the mayor had trouble filling open positions in the planning department (shocking since he is requiring 5 days in office...) so it's recently been restarted. Of course I am highly...

Yeah this has been major drama in somerville. The amount of tears shed about this project has been insanity

Renders look dope, but the marketing team for this club remains incredibly confused. It's like everything was conceived of by a focus group... and the focus group was full of lobotomites.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/14/metro/mbta-phil-eng-hair-pulling-gabrielle-mondestin-settlement/ Lmao what is this? Thats wild.

Wait, if MIT has an architecture and planning school, why are they hiring outside architects? Am I missing something?

Yeah the gut reno down the street from my apartment is a very satured forest green. It's really peculiar, but at least it's not grey I guess?

Hey, like it or not, it's art, who are we to criticize it? I also think as far as the message goes, criticizing things for being grey is genuinely more likely to get ppl on your side than worrying about gentrifiers

The sign on the front wrapping around that dumb hexagon is amazing.

What I don't get is why she needs to be a Senator. Does she really need to become Elizabeth Warren? At least Warren appears to have values. She could be the mayor for 20 years, do whatever she wants, retire to a prestige sinecure job in the federal government or nonprofit sector and retire...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/10/metro/louisa-gag-cyclist-fatal-crash-tremont-street/ Globe posted another article about it. Nice little body count the green new deal mayor is collecting here.

We want property values to go down. I'm not sure why this is even controversial. Rent is never gonna come down unless property values flatline or crash. Plus all this talk of home affordability for home buyers - in order for people to "afford" homes, the homes need to be cheaper. This is one of...

Somerville has some sneaky good neighborhood bike lanes, whereas cambridge has at times been pretty reticent to put them on side streets. For example the bike lanes on Washington St. in Somerville are great and would never be installed in cambridge. They in fact end at the town border.

Hi AB, KCasiglio put me in contact with the comms team for the MPO, and I was able to publish a piece about this survey: https://csindie.com/planners-dont-know-what-you-know-but-you-can-tell-them/