Will Lab Slump Translate into Housing Gains?

A vision to turn West Cambridge into a second Kendall Square is coming apart amid record lab vacancies across the region, as the fundamentals of development look set to shift back in favor of multifamily housing.

Will Money Pool Move the Housing Needle?

Developers and brokers say a new, albeit small, pool of state funding called the “Momentum Fund” will break through a logjam that’s severely reduced groundbreakings of major multifamily projects.

Cloistered Quarters Reimagined in Brighton

Decades before “compact living” became a buzzword, an order of priests lived in tiny cells at Brighton’s St. Gabriel’s Monastery. John Sullivan is an executive vice president at CC&F, where he oversees development projects including the 555-unit development that rose in the monastery’s place.

Biden Needs to Put the Screws to the Suburbs

The Biden Administration has proposed spending a stunning $213 billion to tackle our nation’s growing affordable housing crisis. But in the end, all that extra cash sloshing around will fuel bidding wars for an artificially limited number of urban sites.

Quincy Tops Apartment Production Outside Boston

A new report shows that Quincy, Revere and Malden had the most new apartment deliveries in Massachusetts in the last five years, while underscoring that Greater Boston trails many U.S. metros in rental housing production.

CC&F Buys 4 Acres in Alewife Quad

Major Boston developer Cabot, Cabot & Forbes has bought a roughly 4-acre parcel in an industrial area near the Alewife MBTA station that’s being heralded as the city’s last great growth opportunity.

A Blueprint to Remake Alewife

Now that Wall Street investors have discovered the Alewife neighborhood and its fast-growing life science cluster, change seems inevitable and Cambridge officials have completed a playbook designed to shape future development.