cobble hill?They're demoing the old strip mall at 98 Washington today.
is there any actual plans for what will replace it.
I know the city want to put in police and fire HQ but I thought that was far off.
cobble hill?They're demoing the old strip mall at 98 Washington today.
cobble hill?
is there any actual plans for what will replace it.
I know the city want to put in police and fire HQ but I thought that was far off.
A distant corner of the city seems like an odd location for a central police and fire station HQ. Did they explain their thought process?
Somerville has multiple police and fire stations scattered across the city (with another proposed for the ground floor of a multi-use building in Assembly) so a central location for the "HQ" doesn't seem all too important.A distant corner of the city seems like an odd location for a central police and fire station HQ. Did they explain their thought process?
Right, I get that, then maybe look at some sort of transitional use for the site rather than turning it in to a derelict lot indefinitely.I don't even know if the city has bonded the new facility yet. Not everything can be fast-tracked.
yeah, I get all that.I don't know that they haven't but I'm not finding anything easily that they approved a bond sale. The high school was a big one because it needed to be put to voters. I don't know about the public safety building.
I see your point about being adjacent to a T station, but that's pretty much going to be the case anywhere in Somerville after GLX opens. You don't want your public safety facility hidden away in an industrial zone either (of which the few areas of Somerville that are that will also become transit adjacent/redeveloped/etc.).
This literally comes down to the existing facility being old and dilapidated, the land in Union Square having a high sale value, and the land in Cobble Hill Plaza being available and of adequate size. The City landbanked it and it might have to sit empty for a while. That sucks, but it's also how municipal planning is going to work in a dense city that's only getting denser.
I believe that's the site of the future public safety complex (PD and FD) but I don't recall seeing plans for such a building or a construction schedule. Does such a thing exist? Or is this just that they are trying to go for the world record of total number of municipal projects you can have going at once in a 4 square mile city?They're demoing the old strip mall at 98 Washington today.
I believe that's the site of the future public safety complex (PD and FD) but I don't recall seeing plans for such a building or a construction schedule. Does such a thing exist? Or is this just that they are trying to go for the world record of total number of municipal projects you can have going at once in a 4 square mile city?
https://www.bldup.com/projects/60-cross-street-east-somerville-young-construction
Does anybody know what happened to 60 Crossing Street, right next to the Stop and Shop and across from Assembly Row? Construction pretty much stopped for a few weeks or so.
If I were an investor in a hotel, I'd be slow-walking construction timed for, say, Harvard Graduation 2021.Not much progress View attachment 6877