Oh please. Take a look at the pictures of “redevelopment” back then and tell me it mirrors modern practices. We’re talking wholesale bulldozing of entire neighborhoods. Not a block or two, the entire damned thing.
Pivotal Labs was acquired by EMC back in the day. They bundled it with some cloud foundry work and created Pivotal. When Dell acquired EMC they also acquired a big share of Pivotal. Dell then decided to squeeze more blood from the VMWare stone and forced them to acquire Pivotal before selling the whole thing off to Broadcom.
The tomatoes and strawberries you grow at home don’t need to hold up to long distance shipping. Not to mention, the mass market fruits and veg don’t have somebody personally motivated by getting something at the peak of ripeness.
Like most things, it’s a different set of priorities and incentives that drive different results.
When people say the Rio Grande Valley they typically mean the counties at the southern tip of Texas. The Permian Basin is at the westernmost parts of the state. The areas don’t overlap. At all.
I’ve moved here roughly when you moved away, it seems. For Boston proper, it seems like things are finally picking up again after kinda falling off a cliff during the Walsh years. Wu ran on a campaign that prioritized transit, biking etc so we’re seeing some big, quick projects implemented (the temp Mass Ave bridge bike lanes for one).
Add that to the cycling ordinance in Cambridge and a cyclist mayor in Somerville and it feels like we have a chance for a comprehensive regional cycling network coming into reality.
If your talking about Assembly Row, that’s a “town center” development. Used to be a movie theater and a sea of parking lots. It doesn’t factor into Somerville’s style of urbanism.
Not all writing needs to be as dry as a technical bulletin.