Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Parking

Main Street in Northampton. Courtesy of the City of Northampton.

Northampton Resets Its Planning Process for Main Street Redesign

By Elena Huisman | Mar 1, 2021 | No Comments

Northampton plans to reconstruct its Main Street in 2025, and the project presents an opportunity to redesign the wide Main Street corridor from the intersections of Elm and West Streets, at the edge of the Smith College campus, to Market and Hawley Streets, near the railroad viaduct.

The city-owned Lafayette parking garage in Downtown Crossing.

More Evidence That Bigger Parking Lots Generate More Traffic, Hurt Transit

By Michael Andersen | Feb 10, 2021 | No Comments

An empty parking lot. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Could Flipping Parking Lots Help End Car Dependence?

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2020 | No Comments

Miami-based startup REEF Technology made headlines last month when it raised $700 million to buy up parking lots and rapidly transform them into a range of more profitable uses.

A conceptual aerial rendering of the proposed Suffolk Downs development in East Boston and Revere. Courtesy of the BPDA.

Updated Suffolk Downs Plan Acknowledges Climate Goals, But Still Proposes 6,760 New Parking Spaces

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 24, 2020 | No Comments

The board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) voted Thursday evening to approve a massive development of Suffolk Downs, a former horse racetrack that straddles the Boston-Revere border adjacent to two Blue Line stations. As reported previously, the developers are touting the proposal as a “transit-oriented” neighborhood that will bring thousands of new […]

3368 Washington rendering credit RODE Architects/BPDA

Brewery Landlord Sues to Block Housing for the Homeless, Because Parking

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

The Jamaica Plain landlord of Turtle Swamp Brewing is arguing that his tenant’s “ability to find parking” on Washington Street is more important than housing over 200 homeless people. That’s one of the arguments in a lawsuit filing from Monty Gold, the owner of Turtle Swamp’s building at 3377 Washington St., who wants to overturn […]

A historic photo of the Boston Parks and Recreation Department's Foster Street Playground in the North End, compared with its condition today, after being taken over by car owners. Both images courtesy of Peter Petrigno.

How Did the North End’s Car Owners Steal a Public Playground?

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 30, 2020 | No Comments

An overlooked parking lot in the North End is technically a public park.

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