Emerging Developers Bring Dormant Boston Sites to Life
Two years in, the city of Boston’s push to redevelop vacant, city-owned lots while helping emerging developers scale their businesses is finally bearing fruit.
Two years in, the city of Boston’s push to redevelop vacant, city-owned lots while helping emerging developers scale their businesses is finally bearing fruit.
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: It’s our weekly Personnel File roundup.
A dozen real estate projects received a combined $64.2 million in funding toward development and preservation of 637 apartments and for-sale condominiums in Boston.
Five Boston-area banks have partnered with the city of Boston to offer zero-interest loans to Boston homeowners. But promised zoning changes needed to enable ADU construction appear stalled.
A zero-interest loan from the city of Boston and pressure from a vocal anti-eviction group helped a local community land trust prevail in a drawn-out bidding war against private investors for a Dorchester property in July.
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: It’s our weekly Personnel File roundup.
Boston nonprofit developer Preservation of Affordable Housing and its partner Caste Capital were picked to construct 119 affordable housing units and a new library branch in Boston’s West End.
Nearly all new development projects are exciting, but a slate of proposals to turn a single-story library site in Boston into 90 or more affordable homes is worth cheering on with extra intensity.
An offering to redevelop the Boston Public Library’s West End branch attracted eight proposals that could create over 100 new affordable housing units and new civic space.
Boston officials have begun the formal process of selecting a developer for an 5-acre Charlestown site that’s the showpiece of Mayor Michelle Wu’s plan to stimulate housing production through public property dispositions.
Proposals for multifamily housing at the Boston Public Library’s West End branch are being sought from developers, as city officials seek to maximize housing production at underutilized municipal real estate parcels.
Boston is looking for a new director for the agency that test-pilots new housing models in Mayor Michelle Wu’s reorganized Office of Housing.
The acquisition of a Chinatown apartment building is a milestone for the neighborhood’s attempts to fight displacement and loss of housing affordability, according to a local nonprofit that took ownership this month.