Bunker Hill Campus Redevelopment Sets Call for Offers
Proposals to add housing and commercial space to Bunker Hill Community College’s Charlestown campus are due Dec. 10, state real estate officials announced.
Proposals to add housing and commercial space to Bunker Hill Community College’s Charlestown campus are due Dec. 10, state real estate officials announced.
In the latest reconfiguration of the state government’s office footprint in Boston, seven agencies will relocate to a Financial District property in 2025.
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.
Six state agencies are taking advantage of the Boston office market downturn to upgrade to a new location at One Federal St., where they will occupy 106,000 square feet.
State agencies’ pending lease expirations in downtown Boston would add over 800,000 square feet of vacancies to the beleaguered office market, prompting pleas for Gov. Maura Healey to reverse a planned real estate diet.
State officials are asking Springfield landowners to pitch them on locations for a new courthouse complex for that city.
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The small cluster of cabins providing supportive housing at the state’s Shattuck Hospital campus could blossom into hundreds of units for families and individuals under a redevelopment proposal from Boston Medical Center.
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.
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.
Two-thirds of construction contracts administered by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance don’t employ women and nearly one-third don’t employ minorities, Auditor Suzanne Bump’s office said.
Non-union contractors are continuing their push to strike a requirement that the new $400 million Holyoke Soldiers’ Home be built using a project labor agreement, cautioning lawmakers that the directive is unnecessary, costly and discriminatory toward minority- and women-owned contractors.
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.
Two offshore wind farm projects have signed leases to use the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal as the primary staging and deployment base for construction and installation, state officials said.
A 10-acre parcel that would complete the redevelopment master plan of the former Boston State Hospital property in Mattapan could be the missing piece of the puzzle that creates a true “smart growth” neighborhood.
The Newton Pavilion project reactivated a former Boston Medical Center property spanning eight floors and 166,500 square feet.
State real estate officials are floating four redevelopment options for the Charles F. Hurley Building in Boston’s West End, ranging from partial demolition of the Modernist structure to complete demolition.
Gov. Charlie Baker’s effort to sell off excess state-owned land for development has faced hurdles. Now, the administration is taking another crack at marquee real estate dispositions in downtown Boston.
The state is seeking proposals to ground-lease the 3.25-acre Charles F. Hurley state offices property near Boston’s Government Center, saying the existing 327,000-square-foot structure needs $200 million in renovations and is ripe for redevelopment.
With a Cambridge City Council vote earlier this week, it appears that Leggat McCall’s proposal to convert the former Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge to a mixed office-residential tower has cleared its biggest hurdle.