pixelsand8
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I dunno, East Broadway is looking really well now and it's not too far from the new Partners building. Places like La Brasa and east end grill won't be much further from partners than Earls and Legal seafoods. A lot of people living in Assembly will want to explore East Somerville and visa-versa, this should be made as easy as possible.
This an also the fact that you aren't dealing with a massive body of water like Eastie or Chelsea, it's just a highway we are talking about. Really the connections already exist to walk or bike - I do it all the time and it's fine, just unpleasant to the point where others probably wouldn't want to do it. Changing that would be of little cost and massive benefit, not just for Assembly but East Somerville, probably more so.
Also it's just hard for me to consider an area truly "urban" if you need motorized transit to get there. Sure there is Eastie but that's a bigger area and more of a self contained urban eco-system. Assembly might get to that point when it's all built out but that's a long way to go and huge swaths are taken up by commercial and retail, reducing what it's total permanent population can be.