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It also doesn't matter whether you oppose or favor charters; by state law they had a right to expand and using land use to stop that is part and parcel of the road to today's reckless nimbyism where you can't do anything without the consent of dozens of nearby busibodies.

Great work north end nimbys + zoning

Cheaper, may grow, lots of people drive places and like driving, lots of people want new housing. Agree it's not ideal, but there's clearly a market.

Need a philanthropist to buy this, make it all aff housing, use the new zoning to make it 0 parking, and rent it to charter school parents.

Livingstone is such a tool

Yeah, building towers there and on Causeway is key to preserving the North End

So housing got halved....

What's the deal with the Harvard parcel next door? Had no clue it existed

I think the parcels that were removed on Cambridge are in use light industrial space. One is an old printing shop that may now be makerspace. One wonders if they're already renting it and waiting to build on it til later.

They had already built the foundations when they built the first half.

Exactly. Contracts are contracts. Gov't often fails b/c we don't let it use business best practices when it is in business, be it RE dev or running a transit system.

Chelsea could be building 5+1's the same way Everett does or even larger buildings next to it's clearly better transit (SL3 / Commuter Rail).

Would be amazing if Chelsea gave variances to housing this dense that they desperately need.

Tall trees would be huge here

This whole assembly currently looks terrible (walked past it on Saturday). Much worse than the Whoop building.

Mass Dot has an RFP for the parcels. There's a thread on it

BPDA Board approved in March

Yes, in fact it's just Cambridge that seems to discourage this.

I thought they were already starting to explore building on this site...

^this^