When will Boston start building more homes and using space more efficiently

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by mdovell

It already has been involved. I.e superfund sites. Some local governments prefer it to not go that direction because it isn't that democratic and often times the process takes too long.

Superfund sites are a tiny percentage of the total where the issue comes into play.

[Whatsnext75]

Have you seen how obsessed with disney most kids, not to mention adults are? That place is an empire...it's not going away...not even with alligators eating 2 year olds

[chicagoliz]

Originally Posted by Whatsnext75

Have you seen how obsessed with disney most kids, not to mention adults are? That place is an empire...it's not going away...not even with alligators eating 2 year olds

True dat. I could imagine some scenario where the company itself could implode (some Enron type scandal) but even if that happened, someone else would buy it and run it. If people stopped going to Disney and to amusement parks in general, that would mean that something catastrophic has happened, and the whole world would be dealing with something seriously bad.

[MrLinderman]

Originally Posted by mdovell

Paragon Park was torn down for condos and Kings Castle Land is now a Stop and Shop. Those were easy but not everything can realistically be reused. Bonding might be a good requirement to at least allow the local government to tear things down to help with development.

Thanks for reminding me how sad I was as a kid when they tore King's Castle Land down!

[mdovell]

Well I remember King's Castle land too. Heck Riverside is now six flags. canobie lake park is huge now though.

[Monkey1970]

Originally Posted by Northeasterner1970

The thing is, that there are still plenty of vacant lots in areas of Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, and Mission Hill. You also have areas of the North Shore that also have plenty of redevelopable space like the couple of large vacant lots East of Downtown Lynn. You could put in plenty of high density development in those areas. They should also build up a lot more transit oroineted development.

They could build more suburban developments but I don't think that would be good, I feel like they would redevelop areas such as empty strip-malls and other various empty shopping centers into apartment complexes and other types of housing, etc.

I think the issue is, that there really aren't any large empty parcels of land for large scale development in the core area of the Boston Metro. So in order to solve large scale housing problems, we would need to demolish and rebuild parts of neighborhoods to have them become even denser.

I meant Highland Park.

[Whatsnext75]

What is highland park?