Three Big Ideas for Fixing Boston’s Housing Production Problem
The decline in housing production in Boston, a city already beset with some of the nation’s highest prices and rents, has gone from bad to worse to simply catastrophic.
Commercial-to-Housing Redevelopments Gain Momentum in Lexington
Lexington officials are set to review developers’ proposals this week for projects that would generate a combined 201 new housing units in office parks and commercial districts.
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.
On Route 128, a History of Constant Innovation
The completion of Route 128 changed Massachusetts and its commercial real estate industry more fundamentally than anything before, or perhaps since. And its evolution continues today.
Will Fed’s Move Shut Down Housing Pipeline?
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.
West Suburban Y Expands with Wells Ave. Purchase
Acquisition of a former Boston Sports Club in Newton will enable the West Suburban YMCA to expand this fall following planned renovations to the 61,000-square-foot facility.
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.
New Development Districts Coming Down the Track
Massachusetts communities have their marching orders...
CC&F Pitches Lab Building on a Remaining Alewife Parcel
Boston developer Cabot, Cabot & Forbes has filed plans with Cambridge officials for a 58,000-square-foot research and development building near the site of a major planned biotech development in the city’s west.
Luxury Apartment Glut Starts to Recede
It’s still a renter’s market for luxury apartments in Boston, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to last much longer after five straight months of rent increases
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.
Brighton Monastery Redevelopment Plan Released
A dilapidated former church and monastery property in Brighton would give way 679 housing units under a detailed development proposal filed this week by Boston developer Cabot, Cabot & Forbes.
Developers Propose 680-Unit Housing Project At Brighton Monastery Property
Boston-based Cabot, Cabot & Forbes has proposed...
