Some ideas Mayor Michelle Wu pitched in her State of the City speech could help make up for planned hikes in development fees. But her proposals will take time to implement, something Boston doesn’t have. It’s time the mayor invites industry into the affordability conversation to help find immediate solutions.
In a break from Gov. Charlie Baker’s approach, Governor-elect Maura Healey has vowed to give housing developers top priority as the state seeks to accelerate surplus property sales in the new administration.
If you thought bosses would give up on getting workers back into the office without a fight, you were sorely mistaken. Big employers are gearing up for a big push next year, and the future of downtown Boston may hang in the balance
Real estate development in Boston is only getting trickier, and it’s pushing the city’s development pipeline southward into Mattapan and Bowdoin-Geneva.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Friday morning the city plans to offer 150 city-owned parcels and construction subsidies to developers in neighborhoods across the city for the construction of affordable housing.
Downtown Boston’s pedestrian activity is rebounding to the highest levels since the beginning of the pandemic, but office tenants’ trial-and-error approach their future real estate needs continues to drive up vacancies.
Ridership during the shutdown smashed prior Bluebikes records, and more cities in the Boston area are joining the bike rental network.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is announcing a major overhaul of the city’s Zoning Board of Appeal with the aim of “advanc[ing] the Mayor’s goal of rebuilding trust with communities through planning-led development.”
A proposed real estate sales tax in Boston hit the House floor Monday in a late-session advancement for the controversial idea, but passage isn’t a done deal just yet.
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.
Boston took a major step Wednesday toward seeking state permission for a fossil fuel ban in the local building sector when a home rule petition won City Council approval, but it’s possible the request is just headed for bureaucratic limbo.
Welcome to Boston, the city that reinvents itself every century or so. A new history of the city by a leading real estate attorney is a good reminder that its current success is by no means cast in stone.
Boston officials are looking for a few good ideas – $50 million worth, to be precise.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says the city will be filing a home rule petition today to join the state’s new pilot program for communities seeking to ban natural gas hookups in new construction and major renovations.
Architects SGA designed a new 32,219-square-foot spec office suite on the fourth floor of 125 Summer St., a 22-story office tower in Boston’s South Station submarket.
The Federal Reserve’s largest interest rate hike in nearly three decades likely will put a kink in Greater Boston’s housing pipeline, increase apartment rents and weed out some development firms.
As he assumes the powers of Boston’s new planning czar, BPDA Director James Arthur Jemison II is paying special attention to the future of downtown zoning and managing a looming development boom in Charlestown.
Creating currency was not legal in the colonies, independent-minded Bay Staters went ahead and set up a mint anyway to dodge British authorities’ demands they barter for goods and services, a rule that threatened to hobble the booming economy.
Validity Inc. has relocated its headquarters to a new 25,000-square-foot office suite at 100 Summer St. in Boston’s Financial District, after subleasing space for four years in Back Bay.
As city officials and landlords seek to revive street life in downtown Boston, Whitney Gallivan has played a key role in shaping one of the Financial District’s newest attractions: the High Street Place food hall.
