đź”· Open Thread

tysmith95 said:
Still it seems like more new offices are being built at the edge of the city (Seaport, Assembly, Boston Landing) or the burbs while more residential is being built in the city.
Click to expand...

I see the trend as a very good thing. It means each area is becoming more mixed-use. Traditional commercial areas are gaining residents and new commercial areas are closer to existing residences. It diversifies each neighborhood such that more retail types work in each area. It also reshapes our transit network and commuting patterns, even if all the rails remain in the same places. Trains end up fuller in both directions through more of the day as people avoid downtown or commute THROUGH downtown instead of exclusively commuting TO downtown. Also, the more diversified/mixed-use each area is, the more people can walk to jobs, schools, and retail near their homes and we end up needing less transportation overall.
 
fattony said:
I see the trend as a very good thing. It means each area is becoming more mixed-use. Traditional commercial areas are gaining residents and new commercial areas are closer to existing residences. It diversifies each neighborhood such that more retail types work in each area. It also reshapes our transit network and commuting patterns, even if all the rails remain in the same places. Trains end up fuller in both directions through more of the day as people avoid downtown or commute THROUGH downtown instead of exclusively commuting TO downtown. Also, the more diversified/mixed-use each area is, the more people can walk to jobs, schools, and retail near their homes and we end up needing less transportation overall.
Click to expand...

That definitely is going to be good for the city and I agree 100% I just hope some cross city transportation methods arise out of this vs every train/road leading to downtown before it goes to where you need to be causing huge bottlenecks in downtown made up of a lot of people who dont even need to be there.
 
I don't mind because this thread is for discussing anything but it amuses me when y'all use this thread to discuss local architecture and urbanism. :-D
 
The BPDA approved 7,800 units of housing in 2016, 1661 of these are affordable.
 
Ty,

i left before Dir Golden closed the meeting.

Any mention of total sq ft approved in 2016 (not counting rehab)?
 
14.7 million square feet according to BPDA's twitter account. I'm not sure if that includes rehab.
 
I agree on the towers; not many going up. Seaport 20-storey thingies aren't exactly "towers" in my book. Nor is 888 Boylston. But, I don't know much.
 
This triangle at the intersection of first st and land blvd in Cambridge (in front of the Athenaeum) has been covered in gravel for at least 10 years. Anyone know why?

Why is this not at least minimally landscaped?

30635211663_eb3a795e4b_b.jpg
 
JohnAKeith said:
I agree on the towers; not many going up. Seaport 20-storey thingies aren't exactly "towers" in my book. Nor is 888 Boylston. But, I don't know much.
Click to expand...

What post/s are you referencing? That's a sensitive topic. Did someone say, we 'got the infill + midrise... but...'

Walking around. Everything is great. it's like . But 21~22 projects between 390' and 756' are in some stage of review, approved, etc..... i know i should be more happy. We might end up with SST, and maybe one or two others. We might even get 115 Fed.

8 months ago, i thought every one of these projects might get done. But, i've come to wonder if we're sitting on a file cabinet full of never-towers.

Our tallness.

Millennium Partners,
The Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
HYM
Boston Properties
A pallet of $$$ from China
Avalon Communities
Samuels and Associates

They killed it.
 
Any chance people could ever learn how to shrink photos before posting? I mean, 2017 and all that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top