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Younger candidates push out some of Brookline's political old guard in progressive sweep - Brookline.News

Turnout boosted by the override, national progressive momentum and good old-fashioned campaigning meant a good day for Brookline's left wing on Tuesday.
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Perhaps more importantly, candidates endorsed by Brookline for Everyone (B4E), a pro-housing advocacy group, will now have a majority on the five-person board with the two newcomers along with Michael Rubenstein.
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Well thats awesome, a majority! Cant wait to see if this means brookline becomes much more pro housing now.
 

With 27 acres in a historic, tree-lined neighborhood close to the coast, the site would be perfect for the Boston suburb to expand its reach — and ensure no commercial developers get their hands on the land. The problem? Quincy would have to borrow $22.5 million from the municipal bond market at a time when its budget is already strained.

Eastern Nazarene had initially agreed to sell its campus to a real estate developer who wanted to build several hundred housing units, but that deal fell through. Koch then put forward his own plan that he said would be more palatable to neighbors worried about overdevelopment.
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The site isn't amazingly transit-accessible - the adjacent 217 gets a few trips a day, the 210 (planned for 25 peak / 50 midday and weekend) is 8 minutes walk, and Wollaston station is 13 minutes walk. Neither is there particularly good auto access. The buildings are generally nice-looking, if not exceptional. Some look relatively new. Adaptive reuse seems like it'd be cheaper than building new regardless of who's running the show. I just can't imagine this being a particularly notable or tall development.
 
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