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Old picture back in May; view from the top of the Bunker Hill Monument

I'm hope the Southfield redevelopment turns out something like this.

A snippet of their conversation posted on Instagram reached 17k people. That's not nothing!

These AI outputs are often quite shallow and crude, even if they appear polished at a glance. I simply view people who tout the results as telling on themselves that they have no value/discernment of quality.

Very old news, but I don't believe this ever got posted: 59 Mill St, Woburn Mill Street Heights, 72 units (18 affordable), completed Nov. 2025 https://bostonrealestatetimes.com/hamilton-company-completes-and-leases-72-unit-mill-street-heights-development-in-woburn/

Agreed. In all honesty, that looks like a very spacious studio to me. I would be fine with something even 2/3 or 1/2 that size if it meant cheaper rent.

Tangential, but does anyone know if a map or list exists of the CR stations that indicates platform length as well as which ones are full-high, mini-high, or low platform?

"being next to a rail" is underselling it It's wedged between clapped-out industrial, an intermodal yard, rail, and an 8-lane highway.

You know, this paint job thing is really starting to piss me off. First, it was the CRRC orange + red line cars: acceptable, but not excitingly modern. Then the green line type 10s: obviously dated and far from something you could call beautiful. And now this. WTF are these stripes. I know...

Why are modern developers allergic to corner trim?

What a failure of the MBTA communities act. 432 units of complete, unabashed car-centric living.

I'm surprised they are planning to demolish the existing student housing but keep the instructional buildings. The dorms are newer construction (~1990) than the old catholic school buildings. And the student housing is suite-style that lends itself well to traditional apartment conversions: I

How were they able to justify this project? $5.7B for 40,000 daily riders seems insane

RE: negative externalities of long-term vacancies, would a vacancy tax not also be an effective mechanism to discourage vacancies/encourage conversion?

Why does this need tax breaks then? If it truly was vacant, poor office space that would not serve office tenants, but would work well as residential if converted, the building owners would already have an incentive to convert. Subsidizing it admits that it doesn't actually make sense to...

If vacancies stay high, office leases would just get cheaper and attract more tenants from the suburbs, no? Low-density suburban office park vacancies could be redeveloped into medium-density housing, improving land use efficiency. As opposed to office-to-resi conversion, which would keep...

I never really got the obsession with office-to-residential conversions. I was always under the impression that dense, centralized clusters of office buildings like downtown Boston are one of the best ways to boost transit ridership by making a larger percentage of commutes viable on transit...

Is there a plan to eventually extend the curbs out to where the flex posts are? Maybe they'd add curb cuts and a crosswalk for access then

I don't know if it's even isolated to the Western world, or if it's a problem in the way you describe. I was reading this study that had an interesting conclusion: Now, I haven't dug into the methodology to see if it's really a robust analysis, but it does point to a curious idea that people...

I am continually amazed that projects like that pencil out in New Rochelle but not in Boston. Maybe it has something to do with IZ reqs that are 10% of units @ 80% AMI instead of 20% of units @ 60-70% AMI...