City officials hoped developers would build more units per acre and pass along the savings to residents. It hasn’t turned out that way, and it’s an open question whether the pilot that permitted around 2,000 units in three years will come back.
Boston’s newest co-living complex opened in January in Allston. And a prominent developer has figured out how to make it work. But city officials have put a pause on more housing developments like this.
National Development opened the doors to 7INK, the last piece of the firm’s landmark Ink Block project that has transformed an industrial stretch of the South End into one of the city’s hottest new neighborhoods.
Local developers of innovative housing insist the coliving trend – where renters share spaces such as kitchens, bathrooms, common areas and other amenities in exchange for lower rent prices – has not succumbed to the risks of COVID-19, despite reports of its demise.
Copley Wolff Design Group has an increasingly important seat at the table when project teams meet to map out new developments that put open space in the forefront. Ian Ramey joined the firm as principal in 2015 after 19 years at Morgan Wheelock, Carol R. Johnson Assoc. and Shadley Assoc.
Job growth in the life science and e-commerce sectors spurred some of the decade’s largest lease deals in Greater Boston during 2018, sweeping aside notions of a real estate cycle that’s run its course. The space crunch reflects another big year for the office market, with 2 million square feet of positive absorption in Boston.
National Development has acquired two of the largest parcels along South Boston’s Dorchester Avenue industrial corridor, an area being primed for redevelopment as office, lab and multifamily towers.
Multifamily developers could build smaller housing units and fewer parking spaces beginning this fall, offering potentially significant project cost savings as the city prepares to embrace the microapartment movement.
7INK by Ollie and the co-living program is the logical evolution of our innovative Ink Block brand. The built-in infrastructure of Whole Foods Market, our restaurant and fitness retailers, the AC Hotel by Marriott, and our new Underground at Ink Block art park make this a perfect location for co-living.
