Dorchester Art Studios Seek to Add Condo Building
A Dorchester property that spotlighted displacement pressure on Boston’s artist community will be redeveloped as affordable live-work housing under plans submitted by New Atlantic Development.
BPDA Approves 1.8M SF of New Projects
A developer will pay $1 million to a new fund created by the city of Boston to support displaced artists, after receiving approval for a mixed-income housing and life science project in Allston.
Dorchester Developer Offers Temporary Space for Displaced Musicians
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.
Working Magic to Save Artist Housing
Bill Madsen Hardy is on the short list of real estate developers to send a distress signal when Boston artists face imminent displacement. He’s working his most recent magic on Dorchester’s Humphreys Street Studios, a workspace for 50 artists.
Dorchester Artists on Verge of Anti-Displacement Win
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.
Project Brings Artist Housing, Makerspaces to Nubian Square
New Atlantic Development and DREAM Development’s newly-launched project in Roxbury’s Nubian Square will create 62 income-restricted apartments, half of which will be reserved for artists and creatives.
Prospects Improve for Studios’ Survival
Developer Bill Madsen Hardy has a message for arts groups threatened by rising rents and redevelopments: Give him a call. But can his approach scale?
Real Estate Has Hurt the Arts. Can It Also Help?
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.
BPDA OKs Bunker Hill Housing Revamp, Six Other Projects
In addition to Redgate’s large revamp of the South Boston Edison power plant site, the Boston Planning & Development Agency board of directors approved six other projects at its meeting last night.
Senior Housing Planned in JP
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. and...
Quartet of Roxbury Multifamily Projects Proposed
Four projects proposed for city-owned land in and around Roxbury’s central hub of Dudley Square would bring nearly 200 affordable units and 64 market-rate units to the neighborhood.
