Boston Wants Proposals for Brighton Site Donated by Lab Developer
The city of Boston is seeking developers to build affordable housing and music studios at a Brighton property recently donated by life science developer IQHQ Inc.
The city of Boston is seeking developers to build affordable housing and music studios at a Brighton property recently donated by life science developer IQHQ Inc.
Life science developer IQHQ announced expanded plans to donate a recently-acquired Brighton building to the city of Boston for affordable musical rehearsal studios.
A group dedicated to saving Boston’s shrinking inventory of affordable arts and culture space helped identify a Dorchester property that will serve as a temporary home for musicians facing displacement from the Sound Museum rehearsals in Brighton.
A group of Dorchester artists that’s been fighting to preserve one of Boston’s remaining affordable studio buildings is on the verge of securing a long-term home, with help from a local developer and Boston City Hall.
Boston’s arts and culture chief is asking developer IQHQ to retain music rehearsal and recording space at a Brighton property it’s planning to demolish for a 409,395-square-foot life science campus.
Real estate’s rocket-like trajectory has left Greater Boston’s artists, performers and craftspeople pushed out of studio space left and right. Art, as the common trope holds, is rarely the most lucrative profession, and it shows.