Developers of the 6.5 million square-foot Dorchester Bay City project offered a third of the site for sale, more than two years after it was approved without any groundbreakings taking place.
Transformative projects reshaping the Dorchester waterfront and streets surrounding Fenway Park cleared their biggest hurdles at Boston City Hall in 2023, but a challenging development climate points to a reduced presence of cranes on the skyline.
Acres of parking on the Dorchester waterfront will become Boston’s next major mixed-use development including nearly 2,000 housing units under a 6.1-million-square-foot master plan approved by the Boston Planning & Development Agency.
Developers behind the 6.5 million-square-foot Dorchester Bay City project are offering to take responsibility for protecting not only its vulnerable waterfront site from flooding, but large sections of surrounding neighborhoods.
Researchers are urging state legislators to allow experimental new coastal resiliency projects, providing a guide for protecting waterfront real estate from climate change.
Dorchester Bay City developers will construct a nearly 23-foot-tall flood barrier designed to form a continuous coastal resiliency defense to South Boston’s Moakley Park, reflecting anticipating sea level rise.
The scope of the massive Dorchester Bay City project is expanding further to nearly 6.5 million square feet with developers’ acquisition of a neighboring parcel containing the Boston Teachers Union headquarters.
A Dedham developer that owns three parcels spanning nearly 9 acres along Dorchester’s Morrissey Boulevard is moving ahead with plans for a 250,000-square-foot office-lab building and 175 housing units.
Rusted pieces of the old Bayside Expo Center have been observed falling off on windy days. But who’s counting?
Accordia Partners’ proposed 5.9 million-square-foot Dorchester Bay City development is rekindling a running dispute between University of Massachusetts-Boston and a developer that owns 50 acres just south of the site.
The 1.7 million-square-foot redevelopment of the former Edison power plant in South Boston will bring nearly $20 million in community benefits including upgrades to MBTA service in City Point, and new public parks on Boston Harbor.
A plan to reverse exclusionary zoning in Boston and address discriminatory housing practices needs only Mayor MartyWalsh’s already-pledged signature to take effect, after receiving a favorable vote Wednesday from the Boston Zoning Commission.
With ample capital available for investment opportunities in 2021, Boston-area developers have resumed a busy pace of acquisitions and proposals tying into the region’s thriving biopharmaceutical industry and demand for multifamily housing.
Boston’s first-in-the-nation fair housing zoning law is already influencing key elements of the city’s largest proposed development, Dorchester Bay City, as Accordia Partners spells out how its affordable housing strategy will exceed what’s typically expected in new projects.
During the lengthy commercial real estate boom, many industry figures said Greater Boston’s diversified economy – with its strengths in financial services, technology and life science – was built to withstand anything except a “Black Swan event” such as a natural disaster or geopolitical conflict.
Boston’s two-year-old experiment with a new compact living model has attracted steadily increasing interest from housing developers willing to take a flier on its financial promises of lower costs.
A master-planned development on 34 acres could bring 1,740 housing units and 4 million square feet of commercial space to the Dorchester waterfront.
