Next month, the University of Massachusetts-Boston will cut the ribbon on a new $182-million Integrated Sciences Complex, while Boston University stands before the Boston Redevelopment Authority to ask for permission to build a life sciences center of its own.
While life sciences departments are driving most of higher-education development in the Boston area, arts colleges are responsible for a spate of new centers opening up across the city. On Sept. 5, the Boston Conservatory will open a 20,000-square-foot studio and performance facility at 132 Ipswich St. in the Fenway.
Forget your grandpa’s office park. With office rents continuing to rise in Cambridge and downtown Boston, the demand for urban amenities in the suburbs has grown, and developers are responding.
A gaping hole greets residents and visitors to New Bedford’s downtown.
With 56-acres of town-owned real estate up for sale, Sandwich officials are hoping a more relaxed regulatory process will spur development on the one of the largest vacant commercial parcels on Cape Cod.
After a grueling four-hour hearing Tuesday, the Cambridge Planning Board agreed to extend the deadline to June 20 for a decision on a proposal to redevelop a roughly 500,000-square-foot courthouse and jail in East Cambridge.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) is doubling down on funding for incubator spaces across the state, committing more than $11 million to support capital projects this year.
Gov. Deval Patrick celebrated the opening of the new shared biotech lab, LabCentral, in Cambridge on Wednesday with the announcement of an additional $5 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
Business leaders are fairly optimistic about the economic forecast for the year to come, at least according to live survey results from Santander Bank North America and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s annual economic outlook breakfast Thursday, March 20.
City Councilor and State Rep. Tim Toomey is asking for the state to participate in a working group to “explore options” for redeveloping the Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge after a neighborhood group threatened to sue to block the project.
A new neighborhood group convened for the first time last week with the sole purpose of opposing the redevelopment plan for the E.J. Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge.
With federal tax incentives available for the next two years and an updated carve-out program in Massachusetts, renewable energy experts say the conditions are still ripe to invest in solar.
With redevelopment in Cambridge’s Kendall Square nearly complete, developers are inching their way down Massachusetts Avenue towards Central Square. And if the tenure of conversation around a 46-unit residential building is any indication, the future of development in the square will be a battle pitted on generational lines.
Harvard Square real estate heavyweight Raj Dhanda is proposing to build 40 micro and studio-sized apartments off of Winthrop Park in Cambridge.
A $500 million revamp of the Fenway’s Landmark Center, which adds 550 apartments and the city’s first Wegmans supermarket, easily won approval from the Boston Redevelopment Authority on Jan. 16.
