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Originally Posted by Ne999
And the seaport district is nowhere near it for Boston ...the 10 mill square ft site pitched for Amazon is still being developed (Suffolk Downs | Boston Planning & Development Agency) as is millions of sq ft all over the city of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and beyond ..I’m not just going to list a million developments as I know can be done for every city in this poll..congrats on the growth of all these cities..I’m rooting for you all!
Agreed, we’re all over here debating first world issues at the end of the day. They are each booming in their own right. Likewise it would take me forever to try and compile a list and jot down everything, but let’s just say I voted DC in the thread.
^This map shows Metro with the Purple and Silver Line extensions.
Union Station is undergoing an expansion to dramatically increase service (which I think DC is the 2nd or 3rd busiest rail station in US). VA passed a bill that Buys some tracks from CSX or something that will increase capacity by 75% on the commuter train with capacity increases starting as early as this year and more additions as the bridge over the Potomac is built (part of the CSX deal) allows more trains along with weekend service.
The silver line connects to Dulles airport, the purple line has some awesome stations. https://d1dph1psyatsfa.cloudfront.ne...fPLstation.png The purple line light rail station will be stacked over the heavy rail red line with a large bus hub and connected to some greenways and connected to the MARC commuter train station.
DC suburbs have mass transit most major cities fantasize over.
Yep, and the sad part is here in this region we’ve set the bar so high, that us locals are still here thinking man that’s not enough. Which in reality it isn’t, we can still do so much better than what’s already here or coming in the next few years.
You're dividing by all workers in that post, not office workers, so DC being the least industrial region in the country is going to look higher on a per sq ft basis. You need to pare the worker count down in Boston and SF to account for office workers only. I've lived in all three cities, and no one builds office at just 70 sq ft per employee in any of them. The standard in all three is around 200 sq ft per desk.
This is all silly. For all the praise about Boston's Seaport here, it's a really sterile place where a 3 bdrm 2000 sqft condo is $5+ million and the condo fee is over $3k/mo. All the retail are chains like Lululemon, LL Bean mixed in with some beer gardens. It gets old real quick.
Construction booms that help the city residents are subway expansions, better urban parks, more bridges and tunnels, more museums, etc. Ultra luxurious condo boxes marketed to foreigners and the 1% of one percenters are not exactly my cup of tea.
This is all silly. For all the praise about Boston's Seaport here, it's a really sterile place where a 3 bdrm 2000 sqft condo is $5+ million and the condo fee is over $3k/mo. All the retail are chains like Lululemon, LL Bean mixed in with some beer gardens. It gets old real quick.
True, but not that much different from Navy Yard DC or Mission Bay SF. New places with lots of new construction aren't going to have old neighborhood hangouts.
This is all silly. For all the praise about Boston's Seaport here, it's a really sterile place where a 3 bdrm 2000 sqft condo is $5+ million and the condo fee is over $3k/mo. All the retail are chains like Lululemon, LL Bean mixed in with some beer gardens. It gets old real quick.
Construction booms that help the city residents are subway expansions, better urban parks, more bridges and tunnels, more museums, etc. Ultra luxurious condo boxes marketed to foreigners and the 1% of one percenters are not exactly my cup of tea.
I dunno about Boston, but all those new sterile places contribute to the overall vibrancy of the cities and provide revenue streams to get better parks and subway expansions.
This is all silly. For all the praise about Boston's Seaport here, it's a really sterile place where a 3 bdrm 2000 sqft condo is $5+ million and the condo fee is over $3k/mo. All the retail are chains like Lululemon, LL Bean mixed in with some beer gardens. It gets old real quick.
Construction booms that help the city residents are subway expansions, better urban parks, more bridges and tunnels, more museums, etc. Ultra luxurious condo boxes marketed to foreigners and the 1% of one percenters are not exactly my cup of tea.
The Seaport isnt that sterile at all. It get mixed in with the redone Fort Point Channel. If you look at the final plans for the Seaport... The architecture is much more intriguing. Just take a look at 88 Seaport Blvd or Echelon
And you have to realize, there is much more developable land right south of the Seaport in the Fort Point and Widdett Circle area, stretching down Dorchester Avenue from Broadway to Andrew.
I know Navy Yards is 1.37 sq. km and is a hair smaller than East Cambridge (land area wise)... but is expected to have 12 to 15,000,000 square feet (1,400,000 m2) of office space, 9,000 residential units, 1,200 hotel rooms, 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) of retail space, four public parks when its all set and done.
The city is literally in the middle of building a second downtown
So I guess the answer to my question is “no”.
Judging by the Google Maps screenshot you shared in post #23, I don’t think you understand the scope or scale of development in the Seaport. If you don’t understand that, you probably don’t understand the scale of development in Cambridge either.
I’ll add for good measure that Boston’s tallest tower recently topped off and its future third tallest is currently UC. The tower that is currently fourth tallest, formerly third tallest, and will be fifth tallest was finished in 2016. There are many other towers UC as well. Yes, DC demonstrates well that good construction doesn’t have to be tall, but Boston has been building gangbusters both on both tall and short scales. The density of the area within ~1mile of City Hall has been exploding.
This is all silly. For all the praise about Boston's Seaport here, it's a really sterile place where a 3 bdrm 2000 sqft condo is $5+ million and the condo fee is over $3k/mo. All the retail are chains like Lululemon, LL Bean mixed in with some beer gardens. It gets old real quick.
There are tons of popular bars and restaurants in the Seaport. They are generally pretty expensive, but you make it sound like the neighborhood isn’t a popular nightlife destination. Harpoon Brewery and the Convention Center are pretty big deals, too.
Last edited by Boston Shudra; 01-18-2020 at 09:26 AM..
There's almost no chains in Navy Yard, significantly more local places than chains:
Somewhere
Rasa
Shilling Canning Company (restaurant)
Dacha
Big Stick
Scarlet Oak
Slipstream
Bluejacket Brewery
Chloe
Osteria Morini
Hatoba
Takorean
ABC Pony
Kruba Thai
Maialano Mare
District Winery
Ana
Roy Boys
Conte's Bike Shop
Steadfast Supply
The Juice Laundry
Willow
^This map shows Metro with the Purple and Silver Line extensions.
Union Station is undergoing an expansion to dramatically increase service (which I think DC is the 2nd or 3rd busiest rail station in US). VA passed a bill that Buys some tracks from CSX or something that will increase capacity by 75% on the commuter train with capacity increases starting as early as this year and more additions as the bridge over the Potomac is built (part of the CSX deal) allows more trains along with weekend service.
The silver line connects to Dulles airport, the purple line has some awesome stations. https://d1dph1psyatsfa.cloudfront.ne...fPLstation.png The purple line light rail station will be stacked over the heavy rail red line with a large bus hub and connected to some greenways and connected to the MARC commuter train station.
DC suburbs have mass transit most major cities fantasize over.
To follow-up on that transit map, this is a huge deal for transit in the DC area: "Virginia’s $3.7 billion rail plan called a ‘game changer.’ Here’s what we know about it."
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