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Chilacates Will Bring Taco Joy to Mission Hill

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It will be the third location for the growing Mexican restaurant group, and its first outside of Jamaica Plain. Chicken and fish tacos at Chilacates. / Photo by Jenna Pelletier Popular taco shop Chilacates is spreading the love: The Jamaica Plain-born taqueria will open a third location in Mission Hill. Eater Boston got a tip about signage going up at the under- construction Tremont apartment complex (1480 Tremont St.), and Chilcates owner Socrates Abreu confirmed he’s currently working with architects and planners to design the forthcoming restaurant. While his original location near Stony Brook was joined by a second outpost on the well- traveled Centre Street this past winter, the Mission Hill location will be Chilacates’ first location built from the floor up. That will take about four to six months, Abreu estimates . He has been looking for more locations for a year, he told Eater, and found the Tremont spot to have “the same vibe” as the original Armory Street Chilacates . T...

A Week of Mining Seattle's Craigslist Apartment Pricing

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Everyone is freaking out over San Francisco astronomically high rent prices right now when Seattle real-estate isn’t that far behind. I was walking down the street once in the university district around the University of Washington when I saw construction being built. And then more construction. And then MORE construction down the block. Ridiculous. Looking at a half-torn up flyer, the prices for these new apartments coming out in 2015 were around 1300 per bedroom for a two bedroom apartment ! I quickly went home and started trying to figure out how fast rent was rising in Seattle. One fun way to do this was by working on a project that I have since put off for school back in November. Since reliably the best place to find apartments has been on Craigslist, I created a script using Scrapy to grab listings of apartments on Seattle craigslist and filtered them for the zipcodes within the Seattle boundaries . I manually ran the script for about a week and after filtering out duplicate p...