A group of 11 Winthrop residents today sued the state to block a requirement the town rezone land to allow some denser residential development, saying it will mean a "catastrophic impact" both by overburdening town's services and by setting up the potential for a literal disaster in a town only barely connected to the rest of the state, by just two roads. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 2:46pm
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By adamg - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 9:36am
A marina on one side of the unused, decaying Pier 5 at the Charlestown Navy Yard and a non-profit sailing program on the other side last week submitted the only two proposals to the city for redeveloping the site. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 9:18am
The Boston Sun reports that Jas Bhogal and Thomas Calus, owners of the former Alexandra Hotel at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue, are readying a new redevelopment plan to turn it into a 68-room hotel - but without the modern steel and glass addition they once proposed plopping atop the current facade. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 3:55pm
The owner of 31 Milk St. downtown has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to turn the top ten floors of the eleven-story office building into 110 studios and one-bedroom apartments, under Boston's office-to-apartments tax-break pilot. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 10:04am
The Boston Real Estate Times summarizes a new report by Colliers on the state of the Boston-area life-sciences development market: Basically, we got too much lab space too soon and it could take years for even our hard-charging life-sciences sector to sop up all the currently excess space: We now have the highest lab-space vacancy rate in the country.
By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 9:44am
Jamaica Plain News reports on the formal opening of a 202-unit apartment building, owned by Pine Street Inn and managed by the Community Builders, at 3368 Washington St. that features 140 "supportive housing" units for people moving out of homelessness - with 24/7 on-site support staff - and 62 affordable family units.
By adamg - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 11:10am
The owners of four office buildings in the West End and one on North Washington Street in the North End have filed plans to replace their office space with a total of 114 apartments, under a city program that offers tax relief for such conversions. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 2:31pm
The two federal buildings downtown are on a new list of "non-core" buildings the government now says it wants to get rid of. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 12:56pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-story building with 54 apartments and 9 condos on Warren Street at Crawford Street in Grove Hall. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 11:06am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-story, 59-unit apartment building on what is now a parking lot next to the Fortress self-story building off I-93 in Dorchester, once famous for its giant inflatable lock. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 03/02/2025 - 1:09pm
Two developers last week filed detailed plans for two 18-story residential towers with a total of 754 apartments where WLVI used to have its studios on Morrissey Boulevard - the first phase of a re-do of a roughly 9-acre parcel that also includes the neighboring Star Market. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 12:34pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved developer Joseph Federico's plans for a five-story, 54-unit apartment building at 1305 Hyde Park Avenue at Dana Avenue in Hyde Park. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 1:18pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans for what would have been Boston's first non-hospital birthing center on Winthrop Street in Roxbury after nearby residents and the district city councilor said the new building was the wrong idea for a parcel on a historic residential street. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 10:45am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a three-story, 12-unit apartment building on what are now city-owned vacant lots at 23 Nottingham St. in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 10:08am
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 - Sat, 02/15/2025 - 12:08pm
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 - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 3:37pm
Boston University has filed plans for an 12-story building to house the Pardee School, home to all of its international-studies programs. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 3:07pm
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 - Fri, 02/07/2025 - 2:19pm
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 - Tue, 02/04/2025 - 11:12am
Update: Proposal rejected.
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.
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