Gov. Charlie Baker “would want to try to be helpful” to the city of Boston as its leaders seek state approval to restrict fossil fuels in new buildings and major renovations, even though he continues to be worried about causing increases to housing construction costs.
While Boston’s mayor projects a month-long Orange Line and partial Green Line shutdown will unleash “chaos,” Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday he feels confident that recent subway closures have gone more or less smoothly.
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.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will get a chance to put her stamp on the Boston Planning and Development Agency with a pending vacancy on its board of directors.
Nearly 5 acres of parking lots near the MBTA’s Community College station could be redeveloped for housing and other benefits, Mayor Michelle Wu announced today, the first in what could be a wave of redevelopments aimed at using “public land for public good.”
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.
Attorney General Maura Healey supports local-option rent control bills, her gubernatorial campaign spokesperson said, after Healey told GBH News’ “Boston Public Radio” program that she did not think rent control bills were a solution to the area’s high – and rising – rents.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu appeared at the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance’s office in Dorchester yesterday to tout her proposal to spend $60 million in federal COVID aid on affordable home ownership programs.
A federal official who grew up in Amherst public housing and whose career in Boston, Detroit and Washington, D.C. has focused on affordable housing creation is Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s choice for the newly-created post of chief of planning.
Making good on a proposal she unveiled earlier this month, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced a formal date for a party to mark downtown Boston’s “reopening” after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic – and hopefully lure many workers back to still-empty office buildings.
Sworn in barely four months ago, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is already sending shock waves through the city’s development scene, though maybe not quite in the way many expected.
With downtown Boston still lagging behind its pre-pandemic vitality, Mayor Michelle Wu is organizing a grand reopening-style event to help lure more office workers back.
Millennium Partners will begin marketing 317 luxury condos at its $1.3 billion Winthrop Center skyscraper in Boston in April, amid a recovery of the downtown market.
With her new Rent Stabilization Committee, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is taking an important step in trying to address the state’s – and Boston’s – housing crisis. But will the committee have a blind spot?
As rents soar and evictions loom, it may be time for the real estate industry to radically reassess its lobbying and public relations strategy. For unless something changes drastically in the housing market, rent control is headed for a comeback.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu put her mandate to address Boston’s housing crisis into action Thursday morning, announcing the formation of a new Rent Stabilization Advisory Committee composed of advocates and real estate industry figures.
A day before Boston Mayor Michelle Wu plans to sign a petition that would add a new tax on real estate sales of $2 million or more in her city to fund affordable housing, Gov. Charlie Baker said he generally does not “support these sorts of things.”
Boston city councilors have backed Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal for a real estate sales tax on expensive properties. The measure now heads to Beacon Hill where state legislators must approve it before it can become law.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is seeking to extend urban renewal powers in nine areas through December as city officials study how to protect affordable housing and open space.
Opponents of a proposed downtown Boston tower cheered Mayor Michelle Wu’s decision to relaunch a contentious waterfront zoning process Wednesday, but the building’s developer warned that “immediate further cooperation” was needed to make sure the resulting plan was able to protect the city from floods.
