This project is outstanding! But this is Boston. It will take 10 years to break ground.
We add barely a few thousand units inside 128 over the last 2 decades, and already the nimby are screaming, 'they're killing our children,' while they build hundreds of thousands units in the sunbelt and everywhere ...where there's barely any public transportation.
There has to be some relationship between number of units built and number of units needed
Odurandia -- Please this getting totally out of control
There has to be some relationship between number of units built and number of units needed
This part of the US is not growing at the same rate as the "Sunbelt" -- might have something to do with the first 3 letters?
The city of Boston is growing almost twice as fast as the country as a whole, so, yeah...
Census Figures:
Boston 2010: 617,594
Boston 2015: 667,137
= 8.02% growth
US 2010: 308,745,538
US 2015: 321,418,820
= 4.10% growth
And if you want to talk sun belt growth:
Arizona 2010: 6,392,017
Arizona 2015: 6,828,065
= 6.82% growth
Phoenix 2010: 1,445,632
Phoenix 2015: 1,563,025
= 8.12%
So, Boston is within a tenth of a percent of what I've been told is the poster child for Sun Belt growth (really, within margin of error). Being against the is project on some supposition that there is no need/demand for more housing is misguided.
2000 20,851,820 22.8%
2010 25,145,561 20.6%
Est. 2014 26,956,958 7.2%
1990 935,933 19.1%
2000 1,144,646 22.3%
2010 1,327,407 16.0%
Est. 2015 1,469,845 10.7%
The project is currently in a 90 day review period that ends next month, and the Charlestown Preservation Society and Charlestown Neighborhood Council are coming out against it: http://charlestownbridge.com/2017/0...rvation-society-opposes-one-charlestown-plan/
It's a mix of density, height, and process complaints.
Does Boston do a good job of school expansion planning to deal with such a development? nope, and neither do most other towns around here. So the school concern can't just be dismissed as rampant NIMBYism.