A Roslindale developer has filed plans for a four-story, 46-unit apartment building at 586 Canterbury St. next to the ScrubaDub, the Rozzie apartment building and the brook that runs along American Legion Highway. Read more.
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 12:08 pm
The Boston Planning Department this week approved a "Squares and Streets" plan for Roslindale Square that includes zoning changes to make it easier to add housing atop the square's one-story commercial buildings, engineering studies of realigning Washington and Poplar streets along Adams Park and creating a more plaza-like feel to the intersection of Belgrade Avenue with South and Roberts streets. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 3:37 pm
Boston University has filed plans for an 11-story building to house the Pardee School, home to all of its international-studies programs. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/25 - 3:07 pm
A Wellesley developer has unwrapped its plans for the old Poor Clare Nuns monastery at the Arborway rotary in Jamaica Plain: Turn the former residence into 38 apartments for seniors and then build an all-wood 85-unit condo building behind it. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/25 - 2:19 pm
The owners of the one-story Stats Bar and Grille in South Boston's Perkins Square want to replace it with a five-story building with a ground-floor restaurant and four floors of apartments. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 11:12 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal voted today to hold off any vote for at least three weeks on a proposed building that would house a birthing center and offices for five other non-profit groups at 14 Winthrop St. in Roxbury, so that organizers can hold more meetings with neighbors and a Roxbury community group to try to address neighbor concerns. Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/25 - 1:54 pm
The state Housing Appeals Committee recently ruled that Weston, a town far from meeting its minimum state requirement of having 10% of its housing units be affordable, has to allow construction of an apartment building that locals have been fighting for years as the "Weston whopper." Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 10:03 am
A developer and two music impresarios this week filed detailed plans with the Boston Planning Department for a nine-story building at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street in Allston that will feature a return of Great Scott from the other end of Harvard as well as the continued existence of O'Brien's Pub, all topped by 139 apartments. Read more.
By adamg - 1/28/25 - 10:20 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to add four stories and 14 apartments to the building where the Glenville Stops bar used to be at 85-93 Glenville Ave. in Allston. Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/25 - 4:08 pm
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller reports UMass Amherst is looking to see if any developers might be interested in doing something with 16 acres of prime land just up the road a bit from the Boston line at its satellite campus where Mount Ida College used to be. Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/25 - 11:59 am
MIT News reports researchers have figured out how to use 3D printers and mud to make "formwork molds" into which contractors can pour concrete at construction sites, replacing the more expensive wood formwork now used. "We found a way to make formwork that is infinitely recyclable," one researcher said. "It’s just dirt."
By adamg - 1/23/25 - 9:47 am
Allandale Farm, on the Jamaica Plain/Brookline line, this week filed plans to replace its current cramped farmstand with a larger "market barn" open year round and its current small retail greenhouses with one larger greenhouse. Read more.
By adamg - 1/22/25 - 10:55 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports Harbor Point resident and Corcoran Jennison Companies are asking state regulators to reconsider their approval of the $5-billion Dorchester Bay City project, arguing, among other things, the development would lead to even more flooding on the peninsula.
By adamg - 1/15/25 - 2:48 pm
The City Council today unanimously approved a $110-million fund to help finance new housing in the city through low-cost loans for new housing that meets certain city criteria for affordable units, the use of minority- and women-owned subcontractors and climate resiliency. Read more.
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 1:09 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a 28-story, 400-unit apartment building at 100-102 Ipswich St. at the Bowker Overpass in the Fenway. Read more.
49 affordable apartments for seniors and reuse of old church as community center approved in Allston
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 11:41 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for 49 affordable apartments for senior citizens at 279-283 North Harvard St. in Allston, next to the former Hill Memorial Baptist Church, which will be turned into a " a programmed resident and community space." Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/25 - 10:02 am
A developer who won approval in August for a 30-unit condo project with 11 parking spaces on Grove Street at Washington Street in West Roxbury yesterday asked the Boston Planning Department to let him put in 30 parking spaces instead. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/25 - 2:27 pm
The City Council today agreed to look at eliminating current parking requirements for residential development across the city as a way of spurring new housing - although some councilors vowed to fight the proposal, warning it would destroy Boston's working class and drive low-income residents out of the city. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/25 - 11:17 am
In a defeat for Milton and other communities aghast at the idea of the teeming masses moving in, the Supreme Judicial Court today ruled a state regulation that requires towns served by the MBTA to add at least one zone that theoretically could support more housing is entirely constitutional - and that the state can even sue towns that resist. Read more.
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