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Much of the Globe article deals with the Legislature exempting the development from state use and sales taxes. Westfield would receive about $372 million in property taxes over 40 years. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/20/business/data-center-western-mass/

I suspect they already have a fairly good idea of the extent and nature of the hazardous material contamination. For remediation, I believe the plan is to cap the site with gravel and fill. Capping the site will elevate the stadium and substantially increase its resiliency against future...

Article in the Globe on the new stadium. Two Globe reporters interviewed the team president. Highlights: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/18/sports/new-england-revolution-new-stadium-everett/?p1=Article_Recirc_Most_Popular&p1=Article_Recirc_Most_Popular

This language, with its specific mention of bus routes and given the short timeframe to do the study,, suggests to me that the legislature is not looking for solutions that would require a major investment in transportation infrastructure.

Thank you for finding and linking that story from the local press. And thank God for the local press. The following report from the radio station in Quebec is Google translated from French. Image below is courtesy of the radio station in Quebec.

1.) The law does not carve out an exclusion for Federal lands wholly within the boundaries of a single state. 2.) The Secretary of the Army must act in accordance with the provisions of 33 CFR Part 322. (CFR stands for Code of Federal Regulations. You can read 33 CFR Part 322 here...

^^^ This is incorrect. Full text of Section 9. Bolding in the substantive text mine. Consent of Congress is not required for a Boston flood barrier.

Google streetview, November 2020, construction of 34 Munroe St. is nearly complete. vvvvv https://maps.app.goo.gl/BRHrTpXkpqcsDk647 Google streetview, October 2018, the site is a parking lot. No evidence of even pre-construction. vvvv https://maps.app.goo.gl/6jnup8RRhG18KkTr5 This is across...

Google streetview from 2007. The old glass was more reflective than I thought. The larger expanse of the old windows was softened by muntins and mullions, and there was less contrast when set against the brown brick columns, in contrast to the current whitish limestone. And what a chopped up...

Transparent glass is not reflective The notion that high-paid consultants would embrace transparency into their affairs as much as the ladies in the windows in Amsterdam do in theirs is more than a bit ludicrous.

Hurricane Helene tracked 100 miles to the west of Tampa in the Gulf of Mexico. The Great Hurricane of 1938 made a first landfall in Long Island, and a second landfall near Milford CT. The 1938 Hurricane then tracked to the west of Hartford and Springfield. For a storm surge, a hurricane's...

When measuring storm surge in a hurricane in the Northern hemisphere, the highest surge values are on the right-side quadrants of a hurricane .that is traveling poleward. The highest storm surges produced by the Great Hurricane of 1938 are shown in the images below. The referenced South...

WSJ reporting that Spirit is in talks with bondholders on a possible bankruptcy filing.

Referencing the conversation on the renderings for the new building on the Shreve Crump & Low site, the rendering below is ground level: I would not guess that the aerial rendering upthread is the same building.

So this is the future site of 4 Harbor? Is there any timeline for building this?

I think it has to do with insurance. The FAA limit is not a cap in a traditional sense. Rather, the FAA is saying that any height above x represents a potential hazard to aviation. If one built it to x plus however many feet higher, than the property owner cannot obtain casualty insurance...

IIRC, the architect for the original building was from Beverly, and his portfolio was mainly large (and expensive) residences on the North Shore. As the original tenant was a commercial school, it may well have been economically constructed. Again IIRC, the Art Deco overlay was added when...

The current owners of this building own properties in Hong Kong, China, London, and Boston / NYC. They own One Winthrop Square, for example. They may be financially positioned to allow them to take the long-term view https://www.nanfung.com/en/about-us/founder-story/ Boston Life Sciences...

Taketern's photo of the southeast corner supra shows there is some reflectivity in the glass. The original SC&L building had a generous amount of glass. That building was designed to be used as a commercial school for young women at a time when interior lighting was transitioning from...

Wouldn't they need city approval to use it as a commercial parking lot? I assume it is not zoned for such.