With a top state lawmaker calling for de facto federal receivership of the MBTA to address a torrent of safety failures, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the agency needs “a partnership, not a takeover.”
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu gave the state legislature perhaps her strongest argument yet to accept her transfer tax proposal last week when she laid out a goal of creating affordable housing “as quickly as we can.” on over 1,200 underutilized city-owned properties.
Gentrification across Boston has created a significant shortage of affordable housing, in particular rentals that are too often beyond the reach of so many – especially young people of color.
As he assumes the powers of Boston’s new planning czar, BPDA Director James Arthur Jemison II is paying special attention to the future of downtown zoning and managing a looming development boom in Charlestown.
Michelle Wu became the third Boston mayor in a row to to hear leaders of real estate industry trade groups blast the idea of a real estate sales tax before a panel of state legislators.
With many Boston cultural venues threatened by redevelopment, community and cultural advocates say a 1.1 million-square-foot Related Beal development must do more to bring the arts into the development. And City Hall is listening.
A new phase is beginning for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package. States are in fierce competition for the largest grant awards that would support multi-billion-dollar projects.
The old Boston, where the most important thing is who you know and what political strings you can pull, is still alive and well, if a legal battle playing out in state court is any indication.
It’s hard to say who is more grating to listen to: the angry landlords bristling with resentment, or the self-righteous activists who highhandedly dismiss opponents as plants for cynical corporate interests.
Under the MBTA’s new board, important transit plans are falling aside and public commitments are falling off-track. And vital zoning reforms and carbon emissions plans depend on the plans being abandoned.
State regulators on Wednesday gave Mass General Brigham the green light to move ahead with a pair of projects at Boston hospitals, expansions the system says will help address capacity constraints.
Critics have long accused some Boston developers of switching out city-approved designs for aggressively value-engineered alternatives. A new position at the top of the city’s planning bureaucracy is expected to tackle the problem head-on.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu proposes to boost funding for the city’s Main Streets nonprofits and rental rebates for retailers to stem business displacement and fill vacancies in outlying neighborhoods.
Boston’s new push to boost its neighborhood retailers is coming at a welcome time, just as Gov. Charlie Baker is proposing a similar move statewide.
In what looks to be an emerging trend, Boston’s mayor is leaning heavily on housing advocates for advice on highly-charged real estate issues, while excluding outspoken critics.
The one-two punch of rising interest rates and spiraling construction costs points to a slowdown in Greater Boston multifamily development, even as apartment rents and home prices shatter all-time records.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is off to a strong start on affordable housing in her first four months – eliminating the tent encampments at “Mass. and Cass,” supporting a real estate transfer fee for housing funding, eliminating parking minimums for affordable housing and announcing a new rent stabilization advisory committee.
A trio of MBTA bus lines in Boston – Routes 23, 28, and 29 – are part of a two-year fare-free pilot program that launched on March 1 and the bus routes partly pass by Roxbury Community College.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, took sides over the weekend in the suddenly wide open Boston mayoral contest, endorsing City Councilor At-Large Michelle Wu’s campaign.
The chairman of the Boston Planning & Development Agency’s board of directors since 2014 is retiring immediately and Priscilla Rojas has been named acting chair of this afternoon’s monthly board meeting.
