A $335.4 million federal grant to rebuild a key section of the Mass. Pike and build a new transit hub in Allston will help unlock Harvard University’s plans for a big, new science and technology-focused neighborhood. But the school isn’t the only winner, experts say.
Corporate leaders beware. These are not one-off actions that affect only academic institutions. They are the latest salvos in an escalating war against a key tool for future corporate success.
Developers received approval for 656 housing units at a series of multifamily projects planned across Boston, including a new American Repertory Theater that will provide 275 housing units for Harvard students and staff.
While protests about artist displacement cloud one proposed Allston redevelopment, Boston officials approved another project that will provide artists with housing, makerspaces and retail space to sell their work.
Harvard University next Allston development proposal includes a new home for the American Repertory Theatre and 264 affordable housing units for faculty and graduate students.
In a sign of Boston’s new approach to development under Mayor Michelle Wu, a stalled 900,000-square-foot Harvard University project in Allston is poised for approval after the school agreed to the highest percentage of affordable units by a private developer in the city.
The income needed to buy the median home in every major Massachusetts metro is significantly greater than the median income, a new study found.
Boston’s next major transit hub should offer frequent commuter rail service to prevent the Allston neighborhood from being overwhelmed with traffic congestion, Metropolitan Area Planning Council said in a report on the $2 billion Allston multimodal project.
For one morning at least, the city of Boston, Harvard University and Massachusetts Department of Transportation appeared to be on the same page about their vision for the Interstate 90 multimodal project and how it will lay the groundwork for the massive Beacon Yards development site in Allston.
MIT’s Central for Real Estate is getting competition up the road in Cambridge as Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design is launching its own master’s program in real estate.
It wasn’t supposed to be this difficult to push the first part of Harvard University’s new Enterprise Research Campus across the finish line. But community opposition and personnel changes have put the project into an uncertain holding pattern.
A Harvard University official confirmed talks with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation on construction of an elevated deck at the planned MBTA West Station, which would open up development opportunities over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston.
Harvard University is seeking to build an air rights development above the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston as part of the $1.7 billion Interstate 90 rebuild, according to a letter from a state legislator asking Harvard to go public with its plans.
Growth in improvement and repair expenditures to owner-occupied homes is expected to remain solid throughout the year and into 2022, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
Harvard University and developer Tishman Speyer laid out details of their 900,000 square foot Enterprise Research Center campus in Allston along with plans for another 1 million square feet of future development on Western Avenue.
After facing pushback from local officials and the MBTA board chair, Department of Transportation officials softened their stance on funding requirements for a “once-in-a-generation” infrastructure project in Allston.
Harvard University’s latest development plans in Allston arrives at the perfect time for makerspace Artisan’s Asylum, as it faces an expiring lease for its Somerville home.
State transportation officials suggested punting once again on selecting a preferred design for a massive infrastructure project in Allston stretching across multiple modes of transportation, this time until at least next year.
A lingering relic of the dotcom bust could be replaced with a large three-building complex in the latest in a series of projects lining the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston.
Boston-based Samuels & Assoc. is proposing to redevelop a cluster of commercial parcels in the transforming Barry’s Corner section of Allston as a 270-unit apartment complex.
