As more Greater Boston communities adopt the state’s new opt-in energy code with its higher sustainability standards, developers are testing the limits of how far commercial buildings can effectively run without fossil fuel sources.
Boston Mayor-elect Michelle Wu has some ideas about how to save the city’s cultural venues from extinction. Her arts-and-culture platform calls for the city’s zoning code to be updated with new requirements for studio, rehearsal, performance and live-work artist housing.
A lingering relic of the dotcom bust could be replaced with a large three-building complex in the latest in a series of projects lining the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston.
Harvard has named Boston-based real estate investment firm Berkeley Investments to redevelop one of the city’s most well-known white elephant commercial properties.
