I should turn this around and ask where your faith comes from that tall buildings remain in our horizon?
1. While on the city council she publicly opposed many large projects, including Winthrop Square.
Getting this thing built will not be easy.
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2. She publicly works against developers and not with them. She caters more to her NIMBY base there.
Since her election in November, developers have been clamoring to set up one-on-one meetings with Mayor Michelle Wu about big projects that would create thousands of jobs and add millions in tax revenue, but many have been redirected to meet with other members of her administration.
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3. This proposal has no chance while she's in office.
One of her first big moves is to say she’ll focus first on East Boston neighborhoods grappling with rising rents and climate change.
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4. Rent control isn't going to incentive residential development here.
5. Early returns on key "litmus" parcels, such as the Hurley site and that garage by South Station, point to height being the enemy.
Where is the next 500' building going to come from? She talks about affordable housing and yet...
Some developers are considering pulling back amid high interest rates, a shaky economy, and worries about costly new requirements to build in the city.
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Under her, height is the enemy, housing will stall, and critical parcels that could hold major residential towers will instead be built as squat labs because those are the incentives that have been created.
Of course, then we can turn to the larger issue of the state's imminent downward trajectory after the Questions 1 and 4 fiasco, which is going to further incentive businesses and value creators to seek greener($$$) pastures out of state, simultaneously shrinking our tax intake while increasing our tax dependency. By 2028-2030 all of these mistakes are going to be painfully obvious. At least we had a good run on the skyscraper front and that won't be taken away from us. "A bird in the hand is better than 2 in the bush." I'll be happy for the next few years with our 10 buildings 600'+ and 23 500'+, but when it's the same entering the 2030's don't say I didn't warn you.
The one building X-factor is that 700' residential near North Station. Everything else over 500' has stalled or outright died on the vine so there's nothing left in the pipeline. Would any of you bet on that getting built?