A couple of additional images / resources.
As an aside for anyone interested, the Boston Globe actually has a whole slew of articles between 1890 and 1895 covering the topic of eliminating the Roxbury Crossing grade tracks prior to the actual undertaking of construction, including numerous...
Scott's link inspired me to do a bit of history here...
(P-3 marked by red dot)
18th to Mid-19th Centuries
For the first two centuries following the founding of Roxbury in 1630, the P3 site lay in an uninhabited area of meadows and marshes to the northwest of the town's main settlement. The...
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Well, this walk today was kind of brutal hah.
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1439 Tremont Street (6 units)
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14 Eldora Street (2 units)
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45-51 Smith Street - Part of Mission Main Redevelopment (Deep energy refit - 535 units in total)
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Inactive projects:
80-100 Smith...
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There's certainly a lot of units in this pocket that didn't use to be...all the same, it feels isolated, like it's cut off from everything else due to being boxed in by the highways. It will never be part of a greater integrated urban environment.
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Buildings 1A/1B look to be nearing completion, with most (not all) fencing now removed. The Lamartine Street extension on the west side of both buildings has been opened up to traffic. No visual changes relating to Building 4 or any other phase.
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8-10 Pratt Street was fenced off and looked physically gutted. There were also excavators present behind the house, but I posted that update in the 22-24 Pratt Street thread as they were on the parcel for that project. If anyone knows better than me what's happening here with these two...
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There were excavators on the site for this project, but I wasn't 100% sure whether they were for this deal or for Allston Green next door. If anyone knows better than me what's happening here, please let me know and I'll update accordingly.
1/10 & 1/11:
3326-3328 Washington Street (43 units???? - couldn't find a permit though)
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3371 Washington Street (39 senior units)
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Doyle's Cafe Project - 3478-3484 Washington Street (16 units)
It looks like the last remnants of the Doyle's facade were torn down at...