Things aren’t looking so hot right now for Suffolk Downs and its dreams of hitting the casino jackpot, what with Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn hogging the spotlight with a rival bid and its top backer, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, headed for retirement.
It’s finally time to sink or swim for the Innovation District, Seaport, South Boston Waterfront, insert-your-preferred-name-here neighborhood.
From the Seaport to the Fenway to the North End, a bevy of super-ambitious developers want to redraw Boston’s skyline with dazzling new skyscrapers.
It’s well more than four decades since the Bay State passed a sweeping law meant to bust up snob zoning, but the snobs and their warped zoning are still with us.
Harvard clearly thought it was being hip with its choice of Oprah as commencement speaker while ferrying Menino across the Charles for a little touch of local color.
If you have had to pay a tuition bill lately, you know firsthand there is a massive bubble right now in higher education.
A parade of college students, self-styled environment activists and clergy staged a “funeral for our future†this spring at the unfortunate Route 9 outpost of TransCanada, developer of Keystone XL Pipeline.
An already crazed spring market is about to get even crazier.
Starting tomorrow, the number of homes for sale across inventory-starved Massachusetts will drop again, big time. For buyers house hunting online, the change will be dramatic. Thousands of “active†listings will now overnight be relabeled as “under agreement.â€
Don’t look now, but the cost of getting a major development project approved in the Bay State just shot up again.
It sounds 19th century retro and futuristic at the same time: a giant factory near Boston’s waterfront, literally churning out the city’s next wave of posh rental high-rises and office towers, one modular component at a time.
Don’t bet against real estate, especially the Boston-area variety, in the wake of the diabolical Marathon bombings.
As the savage reality of the Boston Marathon bombings sinks in, it is pretty clear the Hub has finally made it onto the world stage. Yes, we’ve become a target for terror, alongside London and New York.
The bulldozing of the old Boston Herald building may count as progress in some quarters – but not in my book, and not by a long shot.
The leveling of the long-time newspaper building, perched where the last development frontier of the South End meets Chinatown, is yet another step on the road to the Manhattanization of Boston, which is turning downtown Boston into a Potemkin village of luxury high-rises.
Oh boy, here we go again. Prices are surging as the number of homes on the market dwindles.
The Fenway is the hottest development zone in Boston and maybe even the Northeast right now, with new apartment towers jostling for a piece of the city’s skyline.
Legalizing casinos was supposed to have been all about the money – cold, hard cash for state coffers and jobs for the unemployed.
So why in the world are Gov. Deval Patrick and other leaders bending over backyards to support the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s quixotic quest to build a Foxwoods-style gambling palace?
Turns out Curt Schilling’s real estate judgment was nearly as catastrophic as his reckless, $100 million-plus gamble on 38 Studios, his now defunct video game start-up.
The Patrick Administration’s grand plan to dramatically expand rail service at South Station grabbed headlines, but there’s been little mention of a potentially expensive little detail that could hit taxpayers hard in the wallet.
Okay, let’s cut the phony speculation here: As long as he is able to wag that stubborn tongue of his and rumble about somehow, you can bet that Mayor Thomas M. Menino will run this fall for an unprecedented sixth term as Boston’s chief executive.
Gov. Deval Patrick surely thinks he is quite the bold guy after unveiling his plan for a massive, $2 billion tax hike that is sure to trigger a popular backlash.
