MBTA officials abruptly cancelled their largest upcoming real estate project, a redevelopment of Cambridge’s 30-acre Alewife station and parking garage that could have included millions of square feet of commercial space and housing.
Nearly 20 years after development on the site was first proposed, Newton city councilors delivered nearly unanimous approval for 753 homes on the parking lots next to the MBTA’s Riverside station.
A 753-unit housing development that would provide a multi-million-dollar mitigation package is up for approval by Newton officials next week.
Wood Partners is joining a growing list of national developers seeking to build large-scale multifamily housing in Boston suburbs under the Chapter 40B affordable housing law.
Developers to have financing in hand this summer to begin construction of the $105 million mixed-income housing project.
Following its receipt of two major donations, the West Newton Cinema Foundation completed its acquisition of the Garden City’s only independent movie theater for $5.6 million.
Plans for housing on the large parking lot next to the MBTA’s Riverside Green Line terminal have come back to life.
Jeff Speck has spent decades advocating for the benefits of dense and walkable environments. As cities confront the future of urban spaces in the post-pandemic era, he’s teaming up with transit advocate Chris Dempsey.
As Newton’s teacher strike drags on, it’s worth asking: Doesn’t Newton’s historical development skepticism play a role in the city’s current political and financial predicament?
The new owner of a 292-unit West Newton apartment development obtained $117 million in construction financing after acquiring the 3-acre site.
Developer Robert Korff is selling off an approved development site for 292 multifamily units in West Newton and seeking changes that would potentially revive his stalled Riverside project.
Perched at a gateway intersection to the Newtonville neighborhood, Mark Development’s Trio apartment block is a Rorschach test for competing visions of Newton’s future.
A hotel slated for demolition as part of the Riverside development in West Newton would serve as a homeless shelter for two years under preliminary plans by Mark Development.
Redevelopment and expansion of the former Santander Bank branch building in West Newton will create 50 apartments in a project approved for Mark Development.
The next generation of developments with the potential to reshape the Boston skyline are under threat from a combination of higher construction costs, rising interest rates and questions about the region’s housing market.
Mark Development will ask the MBTA for a two-year extension of its deadline to acquire a lab development site in Newton in the latest sign of softening for the life science market.
A trio of development companies are partnering to turn a long-vacant grocery store parcel in the heart of Somerville’s Winter Hill neighborhood into hundreds of new apartments.
Mark Development’s newest project in Newton would expand a bank building to create 50 multifamily housing units and a 225-seat restaurant.
Two projects in Newton raise the question: Is the city set to emerge as the region’s next life science cluster, as pharmaceutical and biotech companies increasingly look outside of Cambridge’s crowded and expensive Kendall Square for desperately needed space?
Boston’s suburban office properties often make poor candidates for housing conversion, with their large floorplates and other restrictions, but paradoxically they could offer an excellent opportunity for creating new housing.
