
Boston Mayor Angers Neighborhood Activists
Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu managed to unite real estate developers and neighborhood activists against her with pending tax increases on homeowners and the White Stadium redevelopment?
Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu managed to unite real estate developers and neighborhood activists against her with pending tax increases on homeowners and the White Stadium redevelopment?
Boston Mayor Wu is holding out hope that she can get Senate President Karen Spilka to come around to her proposal to temporarily increase the tax rate for Boston’s commercial property owners.
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.
After meeting with Boston’s delegation of state legislators Monday, Mayor Michelle Wu said she’s holding out hope that her plan to shift the city’s property tax burden to avoid a residential tax hike could pass through the State House before a quickly approaching deadline.
A new analysis by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation wades into the debate over Boston commercial property taxes, arguing the city’s downtown faces long-term challenges just as bad or worse than other major American metros.
A coalition of real estate and business groups suffered a setback Wednesday in their campaign to keep Boston leaders from increasing their property tax rate to compensate for falling office values.