Ha! Thanks! It’s been a hot second. I’ve lived in San Diego for 5 years now. Much like Boston, the skyline is inhibited by its proximity to the airport, but it unlike Boston, there is no development spine in which you can fit skyscrapers since - between military airports and the civilian one -...
It's really coming together. Kinda strange visiting this site for the first time in many many years and seeing a post of mine from 10 years ago still on the front page. Goes to show the major construction stasis that occurred in the past decade.
Re: Development Map
Two from my neck of the woods:
~Childrens Hospital building currently under construction and making vertical progress (opposite Binney St from Dana Farber's main entrance)
~BWH's Massachusetts Mental Health building currently clearing land and under construction (between...
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)
Bingo. I feel that a majority of the deficiency in community at NU is a result of a deficiency in the above. I can tell you that over the past 8 years that I have been a student at NU (yes you read that number correctly), the...
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)
And for the past 3 years (and up until May 6), I have counted as one of the 15 percent who do NOT live within 1/2 mile of campus - but, for a majority of that time, I have been actually going to BWH/MGH/other places for clinical...
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)
Wow, I can't believe this was approved. This will entirely change the face of that end of campus. In other slightly-related news, after 8 years at Northeastern, 2 bachelor's degrees and a doctorate, I am no longer an NU student...
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)
There is literally no winning on this issue
To put more students on campus and out of off campus housing is to create more room for them. To create more room for them is either to (a) expand outward (boo - that was my gym) and/or...