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The real question is when can the other Harrison-Albany blocks get such treatment. Lots of vacant lots across Deadham...

the city refused to consider doing this in the name of starting faster. meanwhile, it was already supposed to be finished and it has yet to start and the city has a budget crunch.

Perfect example of the perils of "affordable only" --- it's taken ~15 years to build this not very large project, it's not even 6 stories next to the T most places, there's barely any retail, and it looks cheap. Market rate + density bonus for affordable could have given us far more homes far...

There were workers in 10 Springfield St earlier this week

Wow the new version looks so much cheaper and worse

It's honestly pretty crazy, rents were high enough for a massive overbuild of both pre-2022 or so. It's an honestly terrible location for jobs (no transit), but somehow the local nimbys are assuaged by promises of jobs that bring traffic not residents who would walk to work, so you have a cycle...

So with the lab market crash, have they realized this needs to be ~all resi + the grocery?

The City totally whiffed here and made the scheme too baroque to succeed. By the time it was put out to bid again last cycle, it would easily have pencilled as market rate alone --- just run an auction for the site then and see who offers the best benefits! But instead, it had to be lab to...

Copley Place will be a mess until they turn it into a modern arcade like the Pru. The only stores that survive are super luxe because it's inimical to foot traffic. It requires major renovations and a focus on pedestrian flows to make it nice and walkable.

Idiotic proposals, held together by Rube Goldberg machine levels of subsidy combination are bound to fail. This is a no brainer at market rate that could help fix the city budget. But they're too ideological and hidebound to accept that.

The failure of the city to allow market rate in lower roxbury continues to leave us with far too many vacant lots.

110 more + a hotel going right behind it. It looks like for financing reasons they're doing their IDP units on the grocery first.

Unfortunately the triangle where the station was will be an uninteresting park surrounded by traffic fumes + noise. It will not invite people into Cambridge Crossing. Another CRA special: not letting people develop interesting lots and instead putting in parkland that will not get used.

I live around the corner and that's what our neighborhood association was told. It hasn't been that long either.

The reason the ground floor activation sucks is the geniuses at the CRA decided that retail should go in separate 1-2 story pavilions, not ground floors. Put the restos and shops in the ground floors, put a couple more towers where the pavilions are, and you'd have something much better...

re the lab market: I suspect when it comes back, a lot of the secondary and tertiary sites are not going to be part of it. We've seen a lab building boom at Assembly Sq, at random locations on suburban arterials, and in the Boston/Cambridge core. The last of those is *clearly* the most...

While I agree in principle, interestingly, this site is ~8 acres and adding nearly 400 homes. That's about 50du/ac or 32k per sqmi and fitting with the density of the South End and Lower Rox. Broken up 5 story South End brownstones get a little denser, but generic townhomes don't. It's just a...

Nan Xiang is not closed. They are renovating to be full service and serve alcohol.

Are there even funds appropriated to build this given how much subsidy it needs?

It's remarkable just how long it takes towns and cities to review....anything. The revised plans are over a year old! By the time changes are approved, the lab market may be back. No wonder we have a housing crisis.