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Yeah i realized there were two different alignments under discussion, didn’t express myself well. It does indeed like like the line that proves how much money was being thrown at rail in those days. “Let’s build a line from here to here!!” “OK, why not, don’t waste my time showing me a map...

If you go to Medway’s Assessors map, you can see the former ROW parcels quite clearly on the alignment that Poolio drew in at his post 1:38 today. Some are listed as owned by the town, others show no owner info but that looks like a glitch, almost certainly the town owns them. I suppose it’s...

I’ve never seen such rules of thumb published anywhere, but commercial / retail brokers either know them or have a great feel for them implicitly. I know a few such folks and when a new business goes into a given site that they know well, they can sometimes tell you with certainty that either...

This is great news on the Type 10 front. Hopefully they can make it work with all that line prep they need to do in advance of the new design. The ratio of 7s to 8s would be hilarious if it weren't such a huge negative impact to the functioning of the Green Line. As a rider thereof, I...

Also, is this the seller’s stuff? Or something brought in by one of those companies that “stages” homes for sale? Maybe they know something about that sub-market? (Ahem)

That is hilarious.

It was a good turnout, ate up more than the alloted space. Aloisi and Salvucci both spoke, made the case well. They both seemed guardedly optimistic of getting forward motion at the next FMCB meeting. Let’s hope we see some motion on this.

Re: North-South Rail Link I think you’re right about DOT’s mindset. As for the Working Group, there was at least one guy who made a statement very much similar to your argument. My memory is unclear if this was Brad Bellows or Ed Beuler. Whichever it was, I’m pretty sure he referenced...

Re: North-South Rail Link Thanks for filling in the name, was making me nuts. With perhaps one exception it seemed clear the folks lambasting Baker had the same opinion of Hamwey as you do, and took pains to not lash out at him. One guy sort of took a shot on the process related points but...

Re: North-South Rail Link Ok, I may have misheard on the release point. So “leak” was over the top. But as others have said, they got the info to the globe before they got it to the FMCB or the working group. I get Datadyne’s point about helping the globe not be confused at the meeting but...

Re: North-South Rail Link I went to the meeting last night. Attendees from the NSRL working group ripped DOT pretty harshly. The Transit Matters rep was probably the most polite. Very intense criticism on process. Brad Bellows asserted that the early promise to spend the study $ 50/50 on...

Re: Whiskey Priest/Atlantic Beer Garden Redevelopment | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport There were no rulings of any substance, only a few procedural things. So I can’t see any indication in the docket of anyone getting any traction with the judge. In the grand scheme of litigation processes, this...

Re: Whiskey Priest/Atlantic Beer Garden Redevelopment | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport They already have. 501(c)3 non profit versus 501(c)6 non profit. And grey area? Ayup.

Re: Whiskey Priest/Atlantic Beer Garden Redevelopment | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport Suffolk Superior Court docket states “case settled”. That’s what they say when the sides have come to a mutually acceptable agreement. “Tossed out” (which of course is not a technical term) in my mind usually...

DN, I’m ok with the part of your comment about stimulating public discourse. They’ve done that on this board. However, my feedback to the discourse is that I see this gondola as silly at best, even just as a topic of public discourse. And I am completely not on board with the concept of...

To each his own. From the renderings, I thought I was going to like it, I was pretty optimistic. Now that it's done, I'm completely "blah" when considering it without regard for context, and pretty disappointed when context is taken into account. I've been by it on foot, I get the same...

Agreed, the top looks pathetic, but the rest of it ain't so great, either. If it were in the midst of a bunch of other buildings of similar or greater height, it'd be OK filler, if rather meh. But it's actually in a location that cried out for something excellent and iconic; for its context...

I'm not claiming to have any inside scoop, but yours seems like one reasonable interpretation. The other reasonable interpretation is that Baker is signaling to voters across the state that Boston, Cambridge, and any other bidders should expect no help from the state on tax breaks or other...

I haven't seen a lot in the news about Governor Baker's role in this. Maybe others have seen more? Here's one snippet making reference to something he said on WGBH yesterday: http://www.statehousenews.com/?login=yes&trial=yes&path=cms/news.aspx&yr=2017&select=20171948 Looks like a...

Look at Figure 1-12 on page 26 (that's the page # as pagination of the pdf is counted). It's got some massing illustrations that show only about 20% of the footprint of the old building being torn down, the rest of it remains. And the new building is then up above parts of it. That doesn't...