by Steve Adams | Mar 13, 2020
As the initial residential phase of the Fenway Center air rights projects prepares to open this spring, developers received approval to build a pair of office-lab towers totaling 720,000 square feet on a deck above the Massachusetts Turnpike.
by Steve Adams | Mar 8, 2020
Boston-based Samuels & Assoc. has begun demolition work to prepare for construction of 201 Brookline Ave., a 500,000-square-foot office-lab tower.
by Steve Adams | Feb 14, 2020
An office building leased to three hospitals and a tech startup has been sold for $270 million in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood to IQHQ, a life science REIT.
by State House News Service | Feb 6, 2020
Frequent shutdowns are coming to the entire MBTA system this year, including a month offline for the Green Line’s C and E branches, as the T ramps up maintenance plans.
by Steve Adams | Jan 17, 2020
A 278-bed co-living development in Allston and 451-unit private student housing complex in the Fenway moved a step closer to groundbreaking.
by Steve Adams | Dec 22, 2019
From a booming life science industry spreading further out from East Cambridge to new multifamily housing models and an e-commerce-fueled explosion in interest in distribution facilities, here’s what drove demand in 2019.
by James Sanna | Dec 2, 2019
British student housing developer Scape North America has filed a letter of intent for a second project in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood, this time in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital.
by James Sanna | Nov 22, 2019
The latest nightlife addition to the neighborhood...
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 27, 2019
As development momentum in Boston builds, how can designers and developers balance the city’s historic integrity with the demands and expectations of future residents?
by Steve Adams | Oct 20, 2019
As the Fenway, Chinatown and South End continue to face gentrification and housing displacement pressures, contributions from four private developers could deliver more than 700 new income-restricted housing units in coming years.
by Steve Adams | Oct 9, 2019
Developer Scape’s revised plans for the Fenway neighborhood call for three residential towers containing 1,357 units, including a 220-unit affordable housing tower at 2 Charlesgate West.
by Steve Adams | Aug 16, 2019
The next wave of development in the Fenway neighborhood will bring a 5,400-seat concert hall to the home of the Boston Red Sox and a 148-room hotel less than a block away.
by Steve Adams | Jul 28, 2019
In a city with a chronic shortage of college dorms and a housing affordability crisis, private for-profit developers are preparing to fill the void.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Jun 30, 2019
Instead of locals, outsiders like billionaire hedge fund king John Henry and Las Vegas icon Wynn Resorts were the ones who won out in knock-down fights for two of the most transformative deals in the history of Greater Boston, and we’re better off for it.
by Steve Adams | Jun 30, 2019
Time Out Market has opened its newest food hall at 401 Park, Samuels & Assoc.’s redevelopment of the former Landmark Center in the Fenway. After debuting its food hall concept in Portugal in 2014, Time Out Market opened Miami and New York locations in May and will expand to Chicago and Montreal later this year.
by Banker & Tradesman | May 10, 2019
Simmons University filed plans with the Boston Planning & Development Agency Thursday to consolidate the 1,036 dorm rooms, athletics and dining facilities into a 250-foot, 21-story tower on the site of the school’s current science center.
by Steve Adams | Apr 22, 2019
Private student housing developer Scape has acquired its second property in Boston, this time paying $39 million for a Fenway property where another developer had proposed a 29-story tower that drew objections from the Boston Red Sox and neighborhood groups.
by Steve Adams | Apr 12, 2019
A London developer’s proposed private academic housing tower in the Fenway recognizes the property’s history as the home to a series of gay nightclubs, with plans that include a 120-seat LGBTQ-centric “Boylston Black Box” performing arts center.
by Steve Adams | Apr 2, 2019
Fenway neighborhood activists are targeting the Boston Red Sox’ plans to build a 5,400-seat concert hall behind Fenway Park, eliminating 450 bleacher seats to make way for new seating and function space overlooking the ballpark.
by Steve Adams | Feb 14, 2019
Developer Skanska has sold its recently completed Harlo apartment tower in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood for $150 million.