The idea that 495 has become a low-cost alternative for homebuyers and businesses is great spin. But the gulf in prices points a grittier reason for the shift: Discouraged by increasingly grueling commutes, buyers are simply bypassing the outer suburbs in favor of communities closer to Cambridge and Boston.
Copley Wolff Design Group has an increasingly important seat at the table when project teams meet to map out new developments that put open space in the forefront. Ian Ramey joined the firm as principal in 2015 after 19 years at Morgan Wheelock, Carol R. Johnson Assoc. and Shadley Assoc.
A tech company that specializes in communications software for the insurance industry has signed a full-floor lease in Boston’s Financial District.
After evaluating six potential sites, Conservatory Lab Charter School has bought a Dorchester property that will enable it to build a new 45,000-square-foot campus.
Amid neighborhood concerns about gentrification, the Boston Planning and Development Agency board approved the new version of Samuels & Assoc.’s massive Dot Block project on April 11.
Has Boston’s ridiculously hot condominium market finally peaked? After rising for years, the price of Boston condos put under agreement actually fell in the first quarter of 2019 to $639,000, a drop of $10,000, or 1.5 percent.
A London developer’s proposed private academic housing tower in the Fenway recognizes the property’s history as the home to a series of gay nightclubs, with plans that include a 120-seat LGBTQ-centric “Boylston Black Box” performing arts center.
Fenway neighborhood activists are targeting the Boston Red Sox’ plans to build a 5,400-seat concert hall behind Fenway Park, eliminating 450 bleacher seats to make way for new seating and function space overlooking the ballpark.
What do you do when your ad agency is stuck in the ’80s?
Developer Millennium Partners didn’t anticipate a renewed debate in Congress over carbon taxes as it started designing its $1.35 billion Winthrop Center tower. But the potential to reduce the 691-foot skyscraper’s energy consumption by up to 80 percent is starting to look more prescient.
A developer with prior experience in South Boston is proposing a new residential project on Old Colony Avenue near Moakley Park.
A pair of progressive legislators are planning a push on Beacon Hill to legalize local rent control laws.
TD Bank is apologizing and has pulled one of its in-branch ads after many claimed the ad was racist for the way it referred to Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.
Separate developments proposed by Rock Development and Transom Real Estate would see nearly 200 units rise on two parcels facing Logan Airport in East Boston.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities and Anchor Line Partners have revealed their plans for a large lab project the two firms are proposing in South Boston.
The number of people who commute 90 minutes or more to work are on the rise in eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, according to a new study.
The cities, towns and neighborhoods that together make up greater Boston have changed significantly in the last few decades. But those changes have not been uniform across the region.
Boston District 1 City Councilor Lydia Edwards, who represents East Boston, Charlestown and the North End, is calling for organized community opposition to HYM Investments’ 166-acre Suffolk Downs development.
Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank is expanding its presence in the Boston market.
The market remains firmly tilted in sellers’ favor, but is beginning to show signs of a correction while two record-setting ultra-high-end condominium developments scheduled to open this spring in Back Bay and asking prices for Boston condos continue to rise.
