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PNF is now posted: Most of these details were in the LOI, but worth pointing out how much is going into this proposed FIVE ACRE development. Not in love with the location or design, but please just build this thing. You can see this parcel from space, practically. The Proponent proposes to...

What would a new Class A office/lab building serving as the HQ for a large pharma company be without prodigious underground parking?! Cross section from the filing. Not sure how the construction is getting done, with the vault area needing to be massively excavated. (EDIT: better render showing...

Surpluses are good, especially when they’re legally bound to transportation and education spending. Hopefully some of this can go to offset MBTA budget woes. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/metro/millionaires-tax-massachusetts-generated-18-billion/ State officials said Monday that the...

Oh, also, if we want to be comprehensive there's another little infill going in at the very end of Dry Dock that's been carved out for an ambulance bay for Boston EMS (part of Parcel Z). There are some public restrooms there already and apparently they'll build out a new garage for two...

They consolidated two buildings zoned on G7 and G8 to one building, on the G8 site, and gave the G7 site back as part of the extended waterfront park for a bit more height on G8. It was only ever envisioned as two buildings max under the 100 Acre Plan. The sites towards the harbor are part of...

Thank you for compiling all these projects. The only point I’d make is deciding where Seaport starts and ends. There’s a lot of Fort Point on your list, all the way down to Channel Side, and including the Necco developments. If that’s the case, 232 A Street may be in scope, which was recently...

Landscaping isn’t completely finished but the fence is down and the plants are in. Probably 95% complete at this point. It’s great harbor walk infill and will hopefully be dwarfed by the Channelside development whenever that starts…

Approved as of tonight

The arched portions are also getting the treatment now as viewed from Summer St this morning.

I agree that this building appears to have been completed in 2021, and it looks like it popped up recently because of a Notice of Project Alteration that was just filed with the BPDA (below). Apparently the owner is trying to pivot from condos to rentals, including the affordable units. Not sure...

Might be that there are just too many cars. My ruthless capitalist mindset would tell me we therefore need to tax drivers and use that revenue to improve traffic infrastructure and fund public transit so people have more and better options to commute into and around the metro area. Making...

Here you go, new as of a few years ago. Additional coverage below: https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/news-updates/2021/12/22/mayor-wu-eliminates-parking-minimums-for-affordabl "The amendment will remove parking minimums for residential developments where at least 60 percent of the...

Note that the lack of parking does not require zoning relief since this is 100% affordable. Relief is still needed for FAR, setbacks, and open space, but this is a great example of the new parking regs in practice. Replacing a vacant laundromat with 24 deed-restricted affordable housing units...

A conservative think-tank's white paper relying on 2021 numbers and bemoaning the punitive SALT provision in (the conservative-drafted) TCJA? Shocker. Again, opportunistic overinterpretations of spurious data from the midst of the pandemic flux is unreliable at best. Tax receipts don't lie...

Thank you for your helpful contribution. Just for the sake of extra pedantry, "virtually one station" does, indeed, equal two stations. Great content!

Thanks for the update and for finding an agreeable path to compliance. Winchester is so fortunate to have two commuter rail stations providing fast, frequent service into and out of Boston. It's great that the zoning overlay makes it possible for more people to have access to such convenience...

Aha! I had been trying to figure out what that was since going by it a few weeks ago. Thanks for the update and confirmation. Any idea if this is to support new/upcoming projects in the area, or just grid resilience/redundancy? As for location, it's on the east side of Charles St, which puts it...

According to the filing (and, well, counting) this is going to have 9 occupied floors (plus mechanical penthouse). By my eye the top of the steel is the roof of floor 9, so it's near topping out already. Pretty quick steel work. While I don't love this one, just get it done and open...

The commonwealth is saved!!

No, I absolutely see that and appreciate the historic industrial or pure play commercial uses of both neighborhoods. So much of the "Kendall" area housing is East Cambridge on the grid a bit further out by my eye, with the area closest to the station being office or MIT-associated buildings...