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agree on how it developed, but given the fact that it has a heavy rail rapid transit spine running pretty much through the center of the entire neighborhood, there should be 20+ storey apartment towers next to every OL station. the fact it hasn't been allowed to densify much at all is pretty...

Next tweet in the thread suggests it is possible it will replace the current Air Canada flights. I am flying YHZ-BOS in August and will be interested to see if the booking gets shifted to a PAL flight.

View from across the Common:

Looks like the beer garden on the Common is coming back this year:

JP is a suburb

https://brookline.news/bha-breaks-ground-on-new-115-unit-affordable-housing-project-on-marion-street/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/02/metro/boston-tax-plan-watchdog-report/

Can second this book recommendation--very good if a bit stuffy in an academic sense. Lots of frustrating anecdotes about NIMBYism in Greater Boston gone amok. I've seen one of the authors (Katherine Einstein) present a few times and she's really cool--does a lot of really important research on...

Seems to only implicate the lab portion of this parcel, not the resi tower? https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2024/04/30/thermo-fisher-brammer-bio-bxp-lawsuit.html

too soon, I'm still nervous even with them up 2-1 right now

Beautiful day on the Greenway today:

I'm bullish on Lowell, but in terms of prominence, I'm not sure it'll pass Worcester in my lifetime, simply b/c I don't think Lowell has (or will have) anywhere near the economic base that Worcester has.

welcome! this place feels a bit like a vestige of the old Internet, which is partially why I love it.

If I had a nickel for the number of times I've seen this exact argument play out on ArchBoston:

I think it is kinda hilarious that the 1 is #1 on both of these lists.