Developer Stephen Weiner’s requests for design changes delayed the failed 1000 Boylston luxury condominium project, which was already facing a $35 million cost escalation, according to new testimony in a legal battle between Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish and Boston developer Weiner Ventures.
Boston is an attractive city with many desirable attributes, but it remains scarred by the 20th century public transportation project known as the Massachusetts Turnpike, an urban canyon that separates the Back Bay and South End.
Nobody ever said it was easy to develop air rights projects in Boston, or tall buildings in Back Bay. Peebles Corp. is attempting to accomplish both feats with a new design for a long-running project.
Harvard University is seeking to build an air rights development above the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston as part of the $1.7 billion Interstate 90 rebuild, according to a letter from a state legislator asking Harvard to go public with its plans.
Boston has become a sea of cranes, but not every building is a slam-dunk. Here’s why these six projects have languished.
State officials are offering developers a chance to bid on a high-profile property at the entrance to downtown Boston, seeking “forward-thinking” proposals that include a substantial affordable housing component and minority participation goals.
Does anyone truly think the owners of the Red Sox won’t get their way at City Hall when it comes to the team’s sweeping plans to redevelop the neighborhood around Fenway Park?
Resident move-ins have begun at the Bower, the first phase of the 1.3-million-square-foot Fenway Center air rights development that’s been in the works for nearly two decades.
A $700 million development on a landmark Massachusetts Turnpike air rights parcel is beginning construction in Back Bay in spite of the uncertainties swirling around future demand for office, hotel and retail space.
The maximum buildout of the Hynes Convention Center property is coming into sharper focus as the marketing process proceeds and the state legislature debates whether to authorize its sale.
A Cambridge-based online automotive marketplace and Dutch pod-style hotel chain will anchor a high-profile Massachusetts Turnpike air rights development.
A new design fad is sweeping Boston’s architecture firms as they design a new slate of towers set to rise across the city. But where did it come from?
A complex 1.3 million-square-foot office and residential development next to the MBTA’s Back Bay Station could break ground as soon as late winter.
