Developers of the 6.5 million square-foot Dorchester Bay City project offered a third of the site for sale, more than two years after it was approved without any groundbreakings taking place.
Developers and brokers say a new, albeit small, pool of state funding called the “Momentum Fund” will break through a logjam that’s severely reduced groundbreakings of major multifamily projects.
Transformative projects reshaping the Dorchester waterfront and streets surrounding Fenway Park cleared their biggest hurdles at Boston City Hall in 2023, but a challenging development climate points to a reduced presence of cranes on the skyline.
Acres of parking on the Dorchester waterfront will become Boston’s next major mixed-use development including nearly 2,000 housing units under a 6.1-million-square-foot master plan approved by the Boston Planning & Development Agency.
Developers behind the 6.5 million-square-foot Dorchester Bay City project are offering to take responsibility for protecting not only its vulnerable waterfront site from flooding, but large sections of surrounding neighborhoods.
Boston leaders are eager to use the NAACP convention to cast off city’s reputation as a largely white place where racism still lingers. Big changes underway in the region’s commercial real estate and finance sectors can back that up, local executives say.
The scope of the massive Dorchester Bay City project is expanding further to nearly 6.5 million square feet with developers’ acquisition of a neighboring parcel containing the Boston Teachers Union headquarters.
Growing up in Waukegan, Illinois, Tayler Morris got an early introduction to the architecture profession through a high school work-study program that laid the groundwork for a future career.
Rusted pieces of the old Bayside Expo Center have been observed falling off on windy days. But who’s counting?
Accordia Partners’ proposed 5.9 million-square-foot Dorchester Bay City development is rekindling a running dispute between University of Massachusetts-Boston and a developer that owns 50 acres just south of the site.
The 1.7 million-square-foot redevelopment of the former Edison power plant in South Boston will bring nearly $20 million in community benefits including upgrades to MBTA service in City Point, and new public parks on Boston Harbor.
A plan to reverse exclusionary zoning in Boston and address discriminatory housing practices needs only Mayor MartyWalsh’s already-pledged signature to take effect, after receiving a favorable vote Wednesday from the Boston Zoning Commission.
Boston’s first-in-the-nation fair housing zoning law is already influencing key elements of the city’s largest proposed development, Dorchester Bay City, as Accordia Partners spells out how its affordable housing strategy will exceed what’s typically expected in new projects.
During the lengthy commercial real estate boom, many industry figures said Greater Boston’s diversified economy – with its strengths in financial services, technology and life science – was built to withstand anything except a “Black Swan event” such as a natural disaster or geopolitical conflict.
A master-planned development on 34 acres could bring 1,740 housing units and 4 million square feet of commercial space to the Dorchester waterfront.
Commercial real estate and development experts said they are confident that the pandemic won’t spell the end of the development boom in and around Boston, but they said they are keeping their eyes on consumer and workforce trends that might reshape their industry.
A team led by developer Kirk Sykes in partnership with homebuilder Toll Brothers will develop the final 10-acre site at the Boston State Hospital property in Mattapan.
Two of the biggest names in Greater Boston development are joining with two of the region’s biggest community banks to support a $10 million effort to give free bridge loans to Black- and Latino-owned businesses struggling in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Accordia Partners’ plans for a nearly 6 million square-foot development in Dorchester join a series of high-profile projects bringing large-scale multifamily units, office space and hotel rooms to the Morrissey Boulevard corridor.
Developers are proposing a 5.9-million-square-foot mixed-use development including 1,700 housing units on the former Bayside Expo Center property in Dorchester and a Morrissey Boulevard parcel they bought last year.
