by Steve Adams | May 23, 2024
A priority site identified by Boston officials to turn surplus property into mixed-income housing will include four apartment and condominium towers, a gymnasium and artist live-work units.
by Steve Adams | Apr 19, 2024
The first building at the 16 million-square-foot Suffolk Downs redevelopment is nearing completion and has begun marketing 475 apartments for occupancy in June.
by Steve Adams | Jan 7, 2024
Recent funding awards from state and local sources will contribute to development of Templeton’s first multi-family housing development in a quarter-century.
by Steve Adams | Oct 2, 2023
A Dorchester property that spotlighted displacement pressure on Boston’s artist community will be redeveloped as affordable live-work housing under plans submitted by New Atlantic Development.
by Steve Adams | Aug 4, 2023
Developers of the newest apartment community at Plymouth’s Pinehills have begun preleasing 178 units in the Village Green town center of the 3,200-acre development.
by Steve Adams | Jan 5, 2023
Trinity Financial has unveiled a proposal to redevelop a Dorchester commercial property that’s been eyed for multifamily housing since 2016.
by Steve Adams | Sep 19, 2022
Developers received a $150 million construction loan for the first residential building at the former Suffolk Downs racetrack property.
by Steve Adams | May 3, 2022
A 141-unit apartment complex would rise in Watertown Square under preliminary plans submitted by a New York developer.
by James Sanna | Mar 18, 2022
Seven proposed Boston buildings are about to start testing whether real commercial development can move past carbon-spewing construction materials in a big way.
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 Banker & Tradesman | Mar 28, 2021
If houses had personalities, passive homes would be the kind that are calm, quiet and have a reliable temperament. Passive House significantly reduces the carbon footprint while making a comfortable, healthy, and affordable environment.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 5, 2020
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. has filed plans with the city of Boston for a 68-unit project just north of Franklin Park in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood.
by Steve Adams | Aug 4, 2019
Michelle Apigian is a leader in Massachusetts’ “passive house” movement, spreading the word on how tightly-insulated building envelopes can deliver energy savings to building owners.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 27, 2018
Homeowners Rehab Inc. has received funding for a 98-unit apartment community in Cambridge to be called Concord Highlands. It will be the largest affordable housing community in Cambridge in 40 years, with all units being deed-restricted and affordable.
by Steve Adams | Jan 21, 2018
Janis Mamayek works with developers to unlock the potential of existing buildings in her role as head of the “Renew” practice at Boston-based ICON Architecture. The firm designed the Distillery North apartments in South Boston, using passive house techniques to maximize sustainability and reduce energy consumption 60 percent from conventional construction, and recently completed an assessment of more than 40 municipal buildings in Cambridge.
by Steve Adams | Nov 12, 2017
Buildings from that period tended to be big boxes with very little daylight. We had to virtually turn the building inside out.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 26, 2016
The MBTA has designated Barnat Development as the successful bidder for a $20 million mixed-use development planned at 112 Rantoul St. next to Beverly Depot station.
by Steve Adams | Feb 23, 2016
Boston-based Berkeley Investments plans to build 171...