Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street?

Re:Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street? by drivers99 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:50PM (#11640616)

So one side of the street is big box stored with giant parking lots, and the other side is parking garages with 1st floor businesses. Looks 1000% for cars and not transit.

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Re:Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street? by ghaff on Friday May 06, 2016 @01:07AM (#11641824)

I wouldn't conclude much from that development which is largely a retail and restaurant development in a long rundown industrial area (former Ford plant). [1] It was basically cut off from most of Sommerville by highways. There was long a plan to put an Ikea there but there was a lot of pushback from various groups and Ikea eventually walked.

Much of Sommerville away from the highways is essentially a gentrifying, historically somewhat downmarket, version of Cambridge. Generally low-rise houses and some condo complexes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_Square

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