by Steve Adams | Jul 17, 2022
The Boston City Council and BRA Director Ed Logue found themselves at loggerheads amid accusations of backroom negotiations over a 40-story office tower planned as part of the Government Center urban renewal project.
by Steve Adams | Jun 19, 2022
Cambridge’s Kendall Square might never have become the world’s life science capital save for a chance connection between David Clem and a New Hampshire timber company.
by Steve Adams | Nov 18, 2021
Boston’s former economic development chief is making the transition from City Hall to the Financial District.
by Steve Adams | Jun 2, 2019
Brookfield Properties has reached an agreement to recapitalize 75 State St. at approximately $755 per square foot. But unlike other downtown trophy properties, this building rose in the 1980s amid a scandal that threatened to topple some of Massachusetts’ most powerful figures.
by Steve Adams | Sep 30, 2018
One of the ground rules for multifamily development in Boston is that market-rate projects are required to subsidize affordable units, which otherwise might never get built because of insufficient financing.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Aug 5, 2018
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh doesn’t strut around acting like the city’s development czar. He doesn’t design tower tops, as his legendary predecessor did, to the detriment of the city’s skyline, with the resulting “baby bottle” high-rise at 111 Huntington.
by Christopher R. Vaccaro | Dec 24, 2017
Imagine that you are a real estate developer navigating the Massachusetts permitting process. You committed time and money to a project that will reward your risk-taking, while addressing community needs.
by Steve Adams | Sep 29, 2016
The Boston Redevelopment Authority – an outgrowth of 1950s urban renewal schemes – has a new name that’s designed to better reflect the agency’s far-reaching roles shaping Boston’s landscape.
by Steve Adams | Aug 5, 2016
Related Beal has sold two parcels in its Congress Square development in downtown Boston for $14.55 million.
by Steve Adams | Aug 1, 2016
General Electric’s new 388,700-square-foot Boston campus headquarters will include a 2-story company museum, a rooftop solar “veil” and a 900-square-foot illuminated rooftop GE sign, though one that probably falls short of CEO Jeff Immelt’s tongue-in-cheek goal of being visible from Mars.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 15, 2016
Six projects including a $160 million new dormitory complex at Northeastern University were approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority at its July board of directors meeting.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 15, 2016
A developer is planning a $47 million conversion of the Church of God of Prophecy property in Roxbury into a mixed-income residential project with ground-floor office and retail space.
by Steve Adams | Jun 17, 2016
As it pitches its vision for a 57-story skyscraper at...
by Steve Adams | May 26, 2016
Boston-based developer Abbey Group wants to...
by Banker & Tradesman | May 25, 2016
The International Institute of New England (IINE) has...
by Steve Adams | May 16, 2016
A 20-unit condominium development in West Roxbury is...
by Steve Adams | May 2, 2016
Developers have reduced the size of an office...
by Steve Adams | Apr 8, 2016
A development team has submitted a redesigned...
by Steve Adams | Mar 29, 2016
The next phase of the Waterside Place development in...
by Steve Adams | Mar 11, 2016
The Vertex Pharmaceuticals headquarters and Twenty...