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Blackbird said:
Assembly? The Seaport?
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The Seaport was essentially just vacant surface parking lots, no? With extremely consolidated ownership (Fallon and McCourt, yes?). And just one item got built that could plausibly be described as touristy--the ICA (someone correct me if I'm mistaken). In that vein, do tourists really venture to Assembly? Yes, it's rather high-end malling, but--that's available in plenty of other areas in the central core, with lots more hotels.

Wynn had to spend a colossal sum on environmental remediation--and the net result was a massive casino that is nevertheless shoehorned into an area that is still overwhelmingly gritty/heavy industrial in use/atmosphere--both abutting, and within the larger lower Mystic context. Of course it made sense for him because he could anticipate a good ROI given the casino being approved... but how many more casinos are going to be approved in this neighborhood? So again, I'm extremely skeptical.
 
Charlie_mta said:
That's a significant point about the dynamics of Metro Boston. Everett and Somerville are far more accepting of new developments, and in the case of Somerville, transit extensions (re: GLX) than are the snootier towns such as Cambridge, Brookline, Belmont, Arlington etc. Could be a future trend that the historically "dumpy" towns (Everett, Somerville, and Lynn) will pull ahead of the pack, and the more provincial snooty towns will fall behind and become mummified relics. All we need to accelerate this trend is to get BLX to Lynn and a decent LRT, or even a Silverline BRT, to Everett.
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Last time I checked, little Brookline had 3 separate GreenLine branches running through it with 23 stations. With a pop of 59,180, that’s one T station for every 2,573 citizens. Just sayin’.

Let’s face it, Everett has a lot of crap land to develop without bothering anyone in particular. If Brookline was filled with brown fields and decrepit abandoned industrial areas, it too would be ‘more inviting’ of new developments. Brookline isn’t exactly wasting land.
 
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DBM said:
The Seaport was essentially just vacant surface parking lots, no? With extremely consolidated ownership (Fallon and McCourt, yes?). And just one item got built that could plausibly be described as touristy--the ICA (someone correct me if I'm mistaken). In that vein, do tourists really venture to Assembly? Yes, it's rather high-end malling, but--that's available in plenty of other areas in the central core, with lots more hotels.

Wynn had to spend a colossal sum on environmental remediation--and the net result was a massive casino that is nevertheless shoehorned into an area that is still overwhelmingly gritty/heavy industrial in use/atmosphere--both abutting, and within the larger lower Mystic context. Of course it made sense for him because he could anticipate a good ROI given the casino being approved... but how many more casinos are going to be approved in this neighborhood? So again, I'm extremely skeptical.
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There’s much to dispute about your contention that the Seaport ‘isn’t touristy’. Go down there on a Friday or Saturday night this month and you will see tens of thousands of tourists, foodies and folks enjoying the nightlife. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Harborwalk there? Arguably one of the liveliest places in the city. Care to count the hotels in the Seaport? It’s far more dynamic at night than most of downtown.

And keep an eye on both sides of the Mystic Riviera over the next several decades. The emerging shore of Charlestown/Somerville/Medford facing the emerging shore of Chelsea/Everett/Malden may become a very nice interface for the tens of thousands of scientists and lab workers who yearn to get housing in the area. Assembly/Wellington/Encore are just the opening salvos. Keep it going and take full advantage of the River for transpo, dining and entertaininment.
 
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shmessy said:
And keep an eye on both sides of the Mystic Riviera over the next several decades. The emerging shore of Charlestown/Somerville/Medford facing the emerging shore of Chelsea/Everett/Malden may become a very nice interface for the tens of thousands of scientists and lab workers who yearn to get housing in the area. Assembly/Wellington/Encore are just the opening salvos. Keep it going and take full advantage of the River for transpo, dining and entertaininment.
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You're right, the Seaport is more "touristy" than I initially gave it credit for--I forgot there is a large nightclub there and a fair number of restaurants. I still see it as very sterile, monontonous, Houston-By-The-Sea, overall, but, the combo of the Harborwalk, ICA, restaurants, etc., does pack them in.

As for the drowning shore of the Mystic River basin, with sea levels projected to rise in 2050 more than 1.5 feet over Boston Harbor's 1992 baseline per this--with the average annual increase following a geometric pattern, per that accompanying graph--I will certainly keep an eye out over the next several decades as metro Boston frantically scrambles to ensure none of the Mystic's heavy industry starts contaminating the waterway. Which could be a tourism turn-off?

(Speaking of--perhaps some visionary entrepeneur will be able to develop a "Waterworld"-style theme park in that area? ;))
 
New Sky renderings from January and news in Bldup: Link
According to a post in Facebook - they have completed the schematic designs, and are now working on interior and engineering design.
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I'm so excited for Everett (and likely the Rt 16 strip of Revere+Chelsea) to be a vastly different place for the next generation.
 
Zero new news out there, but the land parcel along Spring St and Adams's Furniture store has just been 90% cleared of all remaining industrial structures. What's next?!?
 
shmessy said:
Last time I checked, little Brookline had 3 separate GreenLine branches running through it with 23 stations. With a pop of 59,180, that’s one T station for every 2,573 citizens. Just sayin’.

Let’s face it, Everett has a lot of crap land to develop without bothering anyone in particular. If Brookline was filled with brown fields and decrepit abandoned industrial areas, it too would be ‘more inviting’ of new developments. Brookline isn’t exactly wasting land.
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You aren't far off about Brookline and its transit based advantages. However, it's 2 lines and 17 stations, not 3 and 23. The B Line is entirely in Boston, as are some of the C Line stations. be that as it may, there is still a lot of light rail service for those 59,000 people. But is this even relevant? Everett may not have those advantages, but it likely does have some others. In particular, it has at least one deep pocket investor who is very interested in building up a resort and entertainment district (arguably 2 if you include Kraft). And while there is no short term future for Everett involving LRT, it will soon have some pretty decent BRT, some of which feeds in to the Orange Line, which offers a very quick path to downtown, much better than any Green Line based option does for Brookline. Only time will tell, but it's not hard to envision Everett (by a different path than street car suburb) becoming quite a bit more interesting and valuable than it is today.
 
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