by Steve Adams | Jul 25, 2024
The Healey administration abandoned plans for life science towers at a state-owned Brutalist landmark in Boston’s West End and pivoted to a new development plan prioritizing housing production.
by Steve Adams | Dec 11, 2022
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.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 28, 2022
The Baker administration’s chosen design to redevelop the Charles F. Hurley building in downtown Boston is a disappointment – but not for any architectural reasons.
by James Sanna | Aug 24, 2022
The Boston Preservation Alliance says it supports developer Leggat McCall’s proposal to turn a Boston Brutalist landmark into labs, 200 units of housing and new offices for state agencies.
by Steve Adams | Dec 29, 2020
State officials say the potential demolition of the historically-protected Charles F. Hurley Building in Boston’s West End is still on the table, a month after publicly indicating the idea was a non-starter because of objections from preservationists.
by Steve Adams | Nov 22, 2020
State officials have released draft guidelines for redevelopment of the property that rule out demolition of the state offices building, which is prized by devotees of modernist architecture.
by Steve Adams | Nov 20, 2020
Demolition of the Charles F. Hurley state offices building is no longer likely because of objections from the Massachusetts Historic Commission and preservationists, state officials confirmed Thursday.
by Steve Adams | Feb 28, 2020
The Massachusetts Historical Commission has instructed state real estate officials to consider preserving the Charles F. Hurley Building in Boston’s West End, the site of a potential 1.3-million-square-foot redevelopment.
by Steve Adams | Dec 29, 2019
Greater Boston’s booming real estate industry continues to reshape the local landscape as the real estate cycle passes the decade mark, and 2020 is likely to generate more headlines about how developers are responding to the region’s job growth and housing needs.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Dec 1, 2019
Gov. Charlie Baker is pushing ahead with plans to sell Boston’s Hurley Building to a developer, but oddballs with a misbegotten love for Brutalist architecture are riding to its rescue, unable or unwilling to acknowledge its frankly totalitarian overtones.