Bill Madsen Hardy is on the short list of real estate developers to send a distress signal when Boston artists face imminent displacement. He’s working his most recent magic on Dorchester’s Humphreys Street Studios, a workspace for 50 artists.
Related Beal’s newly-approved 1.1 million-square-foot Channelside project addresses critiques of past Seaport District developments, setting aside space for affordable artist housing and studios, a 900-seat waterfront amphitheater and publicly-deeded park space.
A 1.1 million-square-foot Fort Point development will include more affordable housing and artist-dedicated units under pressure from neighborhood groups and Boston’s arts chief.
With many Boston cultural venues threatened by redevelopment, community and cultural advocates say a 1.1 million-square-foot Related Beal development must do more to bring the arts into the development. And City Hall is listening.
A development proposal by a pair of local nonprofits would create affordable artist housing and preserve a 92-year-old former bank building as exhibition and civic space in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner.
