by James Sanna | Jan 24, 2025
It’s massive, it’s divisive, but no matter what you think of it, it’s undeniably emblematic of a key moment in city history. And now, Boston City Hall has the historic landmark designation to prove it.
by James Sanna | Sep 19, 2024
The head of a top Boston historic preservation group and major owner of historic properties is headed to City Hall.
by Steve Adams | Jul 28, 2024
A refinancing package will enable Capstone Communities to begin an extensive renovation project at its Station Lofts property in Brockton.
by Steve Adams | Jun 9, 2024
An eight-year renovation project designed by Boston-based Finegold Alexander Architects was named a recipient of the 2024 Preservation Massachusetts Paul & Niki Tsongas Award.
by James Sanna | Apr 22, 2024
A former church in Fall River will be converted into 46 new market-rate homes thanks to a loan from Rockland Trust.
by Steve Adams | Apr 14, 2024
Changes designed to attract more developers and commercial tenants to downtown Boston and avoid a looming fiscal chasm tied to declining office occupancy are moving closer to the finish line.
by Steve Adams | Feb 11, 2024
Renovations and rehabilitation of a Classical Revival building at Dorchester’s Uphams Corner received recognition from a pair of preservation groups.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 10, 2023
Trying to hold onto Colonial-era charm, many communities have put historic preservation on a collision course with their enormous housing needs. What if there was another way?
by Steve Adams | Sep 3, 2023
Nonprofit preservation group Historic Boston Inc. has sold a Roxbury church to the Roxbury Action Program for a new headquarters, office space for nonprofits and an incubator.
by Steve Adams | Mar 5, 2023
A former rest area built in 1912 to serve Boston’s expanding streetcar system has new life as Dorchester’s newest purveyor of global cuisine.
by Steve Adams | Nov 2, 2022
The 19th-century Hayden building in Boston’s former Combat Zone was a seedy symbol of urban blight when Historic Boston Inc. purchased it in 1993. Following a multi-year restoration project totaling nearly $6 million, the nonprofit is preparing to sell the 681 Washington St. property, where luxury apartments now rent for up to $4,000 a month.
by Steve Adams | Jan 16, 2022
Decades before “compact living” became a buzzword, an order of priests lived in tiny cells at Brighton’s St. Gabriel’s Monastery. John Sullivan is an executive vice president at CC&F, where he oversees development projects including the 555-unit development that rose in the monastery’s place.
by Banker & Tradesman | Nov 28, 2021
Besides the benefit to the quality and character of these urban centers, these historic preservation and adaptive reuse projects are inherently more sustainable, economic and potentially face less resistance during approvals.
by State House News Service | Nov 24, 2021
A new state fund outlined in a bill before the state legislature would help facilitate improvements to underutilized commercial or industrial buildings in economically distressed areas.
by Steve Adams | May 30, 2021
A renovation of Fitchburg’s city hall by Medford-based Bond Construction garnered Preservation Massachusetts’ Paul & Niki Tsongas Award, which recognizes the best in historic preservation efforts across the commonwealth.
by Steve Adams | May 16, 2021
The Boston Children’s Museum recently received the 2021 Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award by Preservation Massachusetts for the renovation of the historic Hood Milk Bottle in Boston’s Fort Point.
by James Sanna | Dec 6, 2020
Commodore Builders recently completed renovations and updates to the 1848-vintage Custom House at the end of Boston’s Long Warf, creating office spaces compliant with COVID-19 fresh air guidelines and the ADA.
by Banker & Tradesman | Dec 2, 2020
A giant vacant mill at the center of legal disputes and dreams of future redevelopment for a Central Massachusetts mill town will be leveled to entice future development.
by Steve Adams | Nov 22, 2020
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.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 25, 2020
Now more than ever, the opportunity to reuse and reposition a property requires a critical design skill and expertise, and will prove essential to how we push forward as an industry.