State to Match $110M Boston Housing Accelerator Fund
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Tuesday announced that a planned housing accelerator fund for investing in housing developments will grow in size.
Healey Signs Off on 225 New Boston Liquor Licenses
Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Wednesday giving Boston 225 more alcohol licenses, the majority of which are expected to boost economic development in 13 targeted ZIP codes.
Live-Shop Combination Transforms Retail Properties
The viability of widescale office-to-residential conversion projects still is up for debate, but signs point to a greater awakening to incorporate multifamily housing into underutilized retail centers across Greater Boston.
Charlestown Lab Development Could Share Parking with Other Projects
Fallon Co. has filed updates to its proposed 812,000-square-foot life science research and development building in Charlestown’s Sullivan Square that include a pledge to explore sharing the project’s parking with future developments nearby.
Rubber Meets Road in Sullivan Square
It’s hard not to see the proposed One Mystic residential tower in Boston’s Sullivan Square as a test case for whether the Wu administration can follow through on its housing production rhetoric.
Sullivan Square Developers Drop Lab Building from First Phase
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.
BPDA Asks Charlestown Developers to Coordinate Public Benefits
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.
BPDA Dumps Plans for Charlestown Pier Redevelopment
Officials at the Boston Planning & Development Agency have rejected all three proposals to redevelop Pier 5 in the Charlestown Navy Yard amid intense neighborhood opposition and questions about proposals’ viability.
Pier 5 Developers Float Housing Proposals
Developers are meeting projections of rising Boston Harbor sea levels and a big construction challenge with two houseboat-like multifamily designs and a third boasting an expansive rooftop park.
Nearly 500 Housing Units Eyed for Bunker Hill Mall
New England Development’s proposed 240-unit apartment building at its Bunker Hill Mall property is the first step in a potential larger redevelopment of the 6-acre Rutherford Avenue retail property.
Developer Plans 29-Story Residential Tower in Sullivan Square
Plans are in the works to propose a 334-foot tower in Charlestown’s Sullivan Square, according to a letter of intent filed with city of Boston officials Tuesday afternoon.
Get in on the Ground Floor
While complex, multi-faceted models of activating ground-floor space offer a potential strategy to reflect two trends in 2020 commercial real estate: a steady loss of industrial space in Boston’s urban core, and COVID-19-driven disruption to traditional retail and restaurant models.
Life Science Sites Await Industry Spillover
Greater Boston’s massive life science real estate boom largely bypassed Somerville and Charlestown in recent years as growing firms gravitated toward western suburbs instead.
DRI Strategy Could Defend Boston Waterfront
Protecting Boston’s vulnerable real estate from flood damage in coming decades could require creation of new districts to collect payments from property owners, and a new cabinet-level resiliency czar and department at city hall to oversee the defense strategy.
Hospitals Face Short-Term Housing Crunch
Ever-rising hotel and apartment rates are challenging Boston hospitals to rethink how they provide temporary housing for patients and their families for both short- and long-term stays.
Hood Park Is Ready for its Next Act
Assembly Row and Cambridge Crossing are demonstrating how once-drab industrial parcels near the elevated decks of Interstate 93 can be reinvented as successful mixed-use developments. And developers are following a similar game plan at Charlestown’s Hood Park.
Office Tenants Receptive to New Construction in Suburbs
Looking ahead to a new decade in 2020, suburban office users will continue to gravitate towards quality modern office space as tenant experience and talent retention remain key drivers of business decisions.
A Graphic Example of Reuse in Sullivan Square
At the Graphic Charlestown, Berkley Investments brought together two buildings – one a new modular structure, the other an adaptive re-use of a former industrial property – in one well-received multifamily development.
Constitution Wharf Sold for $114M After Upgrades
The owner of Boston’s Innovation and Design Building has picked up another signature waterfront property with the $114 million acquisition of Constitution Wharf in Charlestown.
Days After Neighbor’s Sale, Second Charlestown Industrial Parcel Sells for $7.2M
A little over a week after the next parcel south sold for just over $10 million, a second parcel in Charlestown’s Bunker Hill Industrial Park has sold, this time for $7.2 million on July 1.
