For such a smarty-pants state, we can be so spectacularly stupid sometimes.
Virginia is spending a couple billion dollars to expand light rail along its equivalent of our Route 128 corridor, scrambling to keep up with the rapid development of big Washington suburbs.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino loves to play favorites when it comes to developers, with the mayor’s builder friends too often entering City Hall with project plans and exiting with tax breaks in hand.
Is it finally time to put Suffolk Downs out to pasture? East Boston’s stunning rejection of Suffolk’s grand plans to build a billion-dollar gambling resort should serve as a wakeup call to Boston Mayor-elect Marty Walsh as well as the track’s casino-hungry owners.
New boss, but same old, slow and stinky way at Boston City Hall of vetting big development projects, at least for the foreseeable future.
Incredibly, you can add the humble three-bedroom apartment to the list of undesirable development towns and suburbs across Massachusetts want to ban.
Apparently Massachusetts wants Las Vegas-style resort casinos, just not the global giants like Caesars that actually know how to build and operate them.
It might have helped had Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino taken all of two minutes to Google “downtown Detroit†before trashing the Motor City.
The University of Massachusetts Boston has the potential to spark a development boom that could do for Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester what Boston University did for Kenmore Square and Commonwealth Ave.
Boston mayoral contender Marty Walsh is a big cheese in local labor circles, having run the powerful Boston Building Trades, which goes to bat for the ironworkers, laborers, crane operators and other union hard hats putting up all those new towers.
Why are home prices in Massachusetts consistently some of the highest in the nation?
Boston City Hall sits astride the downtown of one the world’s greatest cities like a twisted tribute to East German architecture, a Stalinist-style bunker in the birthplace of modern democracy.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s bold vision of tens of thousands of new homes, apartments and condos puts to shame the mean-spirited NIMBYs who increasingly dominate towns and suburbs across the state.
The Bay State’s old mill cities and factory towns have long been a bastion of relatively affordable homes and apartments in one of the most expensive states in the country to live in.
As new housing construction sinks to record lows across Massachusetts, a few national giants are grabbing an increasingly larger share of a shrinking market.
Is John Henry the white knight the embattled newspaper industry so desperately needs, or a sharp-eyed businessman eager to exploit the Globe’s lucrative patch of Boston real estate and the many “synergies†created by joint ownership of New England’s favorite sports team and its leading media outlet?
Forget about all the happy talk about how rising interest rates will gently bring skyrocketing home prices back to earth.
With an asking price of $118 million, that Martha’s Vineyard seaside estate is certainly making waves, but there’s not a chance the owners will get their asking price.
Apparently, Boston isn’t interested in luring back all those boring old suburbanites, what with their retro four-wheeled pollution machines and their environmentally burdensome rug rats in tow.
The election of a new mayor will trigger a shakeup in Boston’s highly competitive development scene, with a new wave of builders set to take the lead in the years ahead.
