by Steve Adams | Aug 12, 2025
A “significant” change in housing demand and economic conditions prompted a Newton developer to reduce the size of a planned $300 million residential tower near Sullivan Square in Charlestown while adding 221 for-sale units.
by Steve Adams | Jun 25, 2025
Owners of Charlestown’s 20-acre Hood Park are ready to take the next step in its transformation with plans for a 160-room hotel and 90-unit residential building.
by Steve Adams | Oct 18, 2024
Proposals to add housing and commercial space to Bunker Hill Community College’s Charlestown campus are due Dec. 10, state real estate officials announced.
by Steve Adams | Jun 28, 2024
Bunker Hill Community College’s 32-acre campus in Charlestown has the potential to add multifamily housing and a new life science industry cluster under a public-private redevelopment process beginning this month.
by Steve Adams | Jun 27, 2024
A $300 million apartment tower approved for a Charlestown industrial site received $25.8 million in financing as developers prepare for a projected groundbreaking as soon as 2025.
by Steve Adams | May 23, 2024
A priority site identified by Boston officials to turn surplus property into mixed-income housing will include four apartment and condominium towers, a gymnasium and artist live-work units.
by Steve Adams | Jan 29, 2024
The Milton-based developer has been seeking approval since late 2021 for eight buildings totaling 1.8 million square feet including a hotel, office-lab space and housing at the 20-acre site on the Mystic River.
by Steve Adams | Nov 19, 2023
Known primarily for its vast multifamily portfolio, developer Greystar is in the hunt for good sites in Massachusetts to provide expansion for industrial real estate tenants. Chris Legocki oversees the effort.
by Steve Adams | Mar 1, 2023
The developer proposing a 636-unit housing tower in Charlestown that’s been subject to a lengthy delay in its approval replied to critiques with a full-throated defense of housing creation next to public transit.
by Steve Adams | Oct 17, 2022
A partnership with a private developer could add up to 3 million square feet of new building projects at Bunker Hill Community College’s campus in Charlestown.
by Steve Adams | Jul 28, 2022
Developers are scaling back the initial phase of a 2.6 million-square-foot development near Sullivan Square to include less life science space, including the elimination of a previously proposed lab building at 100 Cambridge St.
by Steve Adams | Jul 28, 2022
Developers of a series of major projects in Charlestown will be asked to coordinate their public benefits packages under a new approach to neighborhood planning.
by Steve Adams | Apr 4, 2022
The first phase of a 2.6 million-square-foot Charlestown mixed-use development calls for nearly 632,000 square feet of office and lab space just outside of Sullivan Square.
by Steve Adams | Mar 4, 2022
The Fallon Co. is the latest major developer planning to build office and research space in one of Boston’s fastest-transitioning neighborhoods.
by Steve Adams | Feb 11, 2022
Developers of a 2.6 million-square-foot mixed-use project in Charlestown acquired the Teamsters’ office building in Sullivan Square this week for $13 million.
by Steve Adams | Nov 11, 2021
The 1.8 million-square-foot redevelopment plan for the former Domino Sugar refinery property includes a new flood barrier protecting not only the 25-acre site but over 200 acres in the surrounding Charlestown, Somerville and Cambridge neighborhoods, developers say.
by Steve Adams | Nov 9, 2021
Development of a former self-storage property would add 101,500 square feet of life science space to the growing industry cluster in Charlestown.
by Steve Adams | Sep 30, 2021
Braintree-based Flatley Co. is the latest developer to gauge demand for real estate growth in Charlestown with plans to redevelop a 20-acre site on the Mystic River.
by Steve Adams | Sep 22, 2021
Nearly 13 acres of commercial properties in the Inner Belt section of Charlestown are the next potential landing spot for life science and multifamily housing growth as a development partnership seeks approval for a 2.6 million-square-foot project.
by Steve Adams | Jul 15, 2021
Just 13 days after buying a three-parcel industrial site in Charlestown for $74.5 million, developer Related Beal is seeking to demolish the 645-unit CubeSmart Self-Storage facility at 420 Rutherford Ave. to build a 101,000-square-foot R&D building.