A pair of Boston Public Library properties in West End and Egleston Square are being studied for up to 142 affordable housing units as the city seeks to maximize some of its underutilized real estate.
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.
Taylor Cain, the new, 30-year-old director of Boston’s Housing Innovation Lab, sits at the head of a team piloting a range of ideas for how to meet the city’s huge housing challenges.
Members of the banking, real estate and construction industries were all on the move recently. See who’s been hired and promoted.
Developers of microapartments near transit stops in Boston would qualify for reduced parking requirements under the city’s proposed new “compact living” regulations for new apartments and condos.
A South Boston developer has submitted designs for a 61-story office and residential tower above Boston’s City Hall Annex after the city asked for ideas how to generate affordable housing at municipal properties.
Hundreds of municipal properties in Boston could be redeveloped with multifamily housing in a pilot program that could provide the added benefit of shielding firefighters from cancer-causing work environments.
