Street Fight reports that Everyblock, which used to be a handy place to look up building permits and the like, is coming back to Boston and will add a Medford version (Medford? Yes, Medford).
I hope that Everyblock is better than the current City of Boston permit search site, which only searches on substrings. If you want to look up, say, "5 Commonwealth", it will find 5 Commonwealth, 15 Commonwealth, 25 Commonwealth, 35, 45, 51, 52, 53, 54, not to mention 46 Commonwealth #5, 1344 Commonwealth #15. Very inefficient.
I loved Everyblock. They told me every time a new house in my neighborhood went on the market. They told me about all the reports to the city from other citizens. It was VERY handy.
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I hope that Everyblock is better than the current City of Boston permit search site, which only searches on substrings. If you want to look up, say, "5 Commonwealth", it will find 5 Commonwealth, 15 Commonwealth, 25 Commonwealth, 35, 45, 51, 52, 53, 54, not to mention 46 Commonwealth #5, 1344 Commonwealth #15. Very inefficient.
Yea!
I loved Everyblock. They told me every time a new house in my neighborhood went on the market. They told me about all the reports to the city from other citizens. It was VERY handy.