Jury Tours Damage in Big Dig Case

Parcel 9 Letters From Community Groups and Haymarket Pushcarts Strongly Favor Cresset / DeNormandie “Blackstone Market” Apartment / Restaurant Proposal

In a landslide of comment and recommendation letters for the final Parcel 9 designation, Cresset / DeNormandie’s Blackstone Market proposal gained broad support from a myriad of community and business interests against Normandy Partners’ Haymarket Square Hotel. Perhaps most notably, the Haymarket Pushcart Association has come out strongly against a hotel at the site. Parcel Read More…

Globe: Big Dig Needs Early Repaving Work

The surface pavement for the Big Dig is crumbling about 20 years earlier than expected, according to state officials and reported in the Boston Globe. The repairs could cost $1 million, adding to the Central Artery project’s $22 billion price tag. The work will cause weekend and night lane closures at the tunnel openings where Read More…

Downtown View: Make No Little Plans

Hey, Bostonians. Can we stop complaining about the Big Dig? Yes, it cost almost $15 billion. Yes, it took 15 years to complete. (It was a big job, moving all those utility lines and keeping the cars running overhead.) It was also worth every penny we spent on it. It has caused the area around Read More…