While it ran into resistance during its public hearing, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to temporarily increase the property tax rate for commercial buildings cleared its first major legislative hurdle as a key deadline approaches.
Can downtown Boston escape the so-called urban doom loop? Probably. But it’s going to take a lot more than new “skyline” zoning for taller towers to bring it back.
In her biggest policy speech of the year, Mayor Michelle Wu laid out her pledges for 2024.
With housing construction stalled across Boston, the Wu administration is thinking big when it comes to ways to get apartment and condominium projects moving again.
In her most significant legislative action since taking office in January, Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday signed into law her first annual state budget, including a slew of major policy changes.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced the distribution of $2.8 million in grants to city small businesses Tuesday, with the aim of helping them expand downtown.
Public subsidies could be the next tool in Boston’s bid to revive the downtown economy through conversions of neglected offices into housing as concerns mount that zoning incentives won’t be enough.
With all due respect, one wonders whether the mayor’s CFO is living in the same world as the rest of us in day-to-day contact with the business of real estate and development.
Sheila Dillon, Boston’s chief of housing, lays the blame for a downturn in the construction of new units at the feet of larger economic headwinds and high interest rates.
The MBTA’s move to acquire a 24-acre parcel at Widett Circle “could be a great thing” for the region, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday.
The path forward on Boston’s high-profile and seemingly-intractable homeless encampment in the South End, Mayor Michelle Wu said, relies on getting Beacon Hill to take on a more active role.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is proposing that all new buildings larger than 20,000 square feet should emit net-zero carbon from the day they open.
We are about to see whether Boston Mayor Michelle Wu can make some headway on bringing new life to storefronts emptied out by the pandemic.
With a top state lawmaker calling for de facto federal receivership of the MBTA to address a torrent of safety failures, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the agency needs “a partnership, not a takeover.”
