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Some good tasty bones there. Too bad no one's fleshing them out.
And some holes were bones used to be. It's too bad that seemingly so many handsome but derelict old masonry houses got torn down in those areas leaving only grass. Even if those plots are someday filled, they'll never look the same as their neighbors.
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Spitting image of Paris. I guess that's why everyone calls Boston the Paris of New England.
You're missing an important degree of separation: Montreal is the Paris of Quebec, and Boston is the Montreal of New England.
And some holes were bones used to be. It's too bad that seemingly so many handsome but derelict old masonry houses got torn down in those areas leaving only grass. Even if those plots are someday filled, they'll never look the same as their neighbors.
Exactly. It's too bad that apparently a lot of similar homes in Chicago have been torn down and replaced with grass fields after sitting too long. I don't think Boston has many giant patches of empty land like the ones mwj119 showed upthread.
Exactly. It's too bad that apparently a lot of similar homes in Chicago have been torn down and replaced with grass fields after sitting too long. I don't think Boston has many giant patches of empty land like the ones mwj119 showed upthread.
It definitely has some- but as I posted earlier, Most of them are gone in the past 25 years.
Even in 2005 there were a lot. The entire current Mattapan library was a massive vacant lot on Blue Hill Ave Until 2008. There are some significant grassy lots in Dorchester though, most of which are being built upon.
It definitely has some- but as I posted earlier, Most of them are gone in the past 25 years.
Even in 2005 there were a lot. The entire current Mattapan library was a massive vacant lot on Blue Hill Ave Until 2008. There are some significant grassy lots in Dorchester though, most of which are being built upon.
I used to live a few blocks away from this one actually. It was never housing that got torn down. Before being an empty field, it was an MBTA maintenance facility: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/r1-s...tion-boston-ma
I used to live a few blocks away from this one actually. It was never housing that got torn down. Before being an empty field, it was an MBTA maintenance facility: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/r1-s...tion-boston-ma
Yea but it was a pretty abandoned MBTA facility in HS I used to smoke weed in there. It was still a blight ya know? It was cool when it was like an art space though.
I used to be on my way to marcella Street another one with a lot of vacant lots
It definitely has some- but as I posted earlier, Most of them are gone in the past 25 years.
Even in 2005 there were a lot. The entire current Mattapan library was a massive vacant lot on Blue Hill Ave Until 2008. There are some significant grassy lots in Dorchester though, most of which are being built upon.
Still most vacant lots in the city are smaller nowadays. And Sometimes Boston has some Southside Chiacgo traits.
Kind of odd when coupled with how expensive real estate is in Boston even in the not so nice parts. Has there been a lot of development of plots like these?
Kind of odd when coupled with how expensive real estate is in Boston even in the not so nice parts. Has there been a lot of development of plots like these?
On two of them, still I could pull many more.
Most people just don’t realize the rate of poverty, the dismal public schools and the extent of social and racial segregation/stratification in Boston. If you haven’t lived in these areas it doesn’t make sense. these places are still expensive it’s just there gang infested and not near much of anything people care for and They are pretty far from the universities:
Cost of development wouldnt be made up in rent. Price is overinflated for QOL and everyone knows it. The prices in much nicer areas of the city are barely higher.
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