The viability of widescale office-to-residential conversion projects still is up for debate, but signs point to a greater awakening to incorporate multifamily housing into underutilized retail centers across Greater Boston.
The first residential building at the Allston Yards redevelopment has begun leasing 165 apartments in preparation for its scheduled spring opening.
Developers of the newest apartment community at Plymouth’s Pinehills have begun preleasing 178 units in the Village Green town center of the 3,200-acre development.
The Southfield Redevelopment Authority supported changes that would give the new master development team flexibility to build more housing depending upon market conditions.
On the heels of recent life science leases reshaping its Cambridgeside property, owner New England Development is set to update Lechmere Canal Park with new lighting, landscaping and accessibility upgrades.
SmartLabs will open its fifth and largest Greater Boston location at the Cambridgeside property as developers reposition the mall property for life science tenants.
Eight developers have responded to the city of Medford’s offering of air rights at the MBTA’s Wellington station for mixed-use projects including multifamily housing, office space and hotels.
New England Development wants to change office space, converted from third-floor storefronts before the pandemic, into laboratories. It’s following a familiar playbook for office landlords.
The federal government has received a dozen bids for a 51-acre parcel in South Weymouth that’s been the subject of a jurisdictional dispute with local officials.
Conversion of the former Sears store into lab space at the Cambridgeside mall picked up momentum with a 50,453-square-foot lease by a biotech that received $116 million in venture financing early this year.
The U.S. government is auctioning off a 51-acre site at the Southfield property in South Weymouth over the objections of the local agency responsible for redeveloping the former naval air station.
Allston Yards developers are accelerating plans for condo construction after reaching agreement with the owners of a neighboring property, bringing the project’s housing component to more than 1,000 units.
Burlington is blazing a new zoning trail that other suburban towns may be following in coming years, hoping for new housing and better pedestrian connections in the commercial district near the Burlington Mall.
A year-old Cambridge biotech company that’s received $315 million in venture financing has leased nearly 150,000 square feet in the Cambridgeside mall’s new office-lab redevelopment.
Construction of 165 housing units and new Stop & Shop Supermarket is set to begin this month in a redevelopment of an 11-acre strip mall bordering the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The Southfield Redevelopment Authority will receive nearly $1 million a year to help pay for its operations after entering an exclusive negotiating agreement with the potential new master developer at the 1,450-acre former air base.
New England Development’s proposed 240-unit apartment building at its Bunker Hill Mall property is the first step in a potential larger redevelopment of the 6-acre Rutherford Avenue retail property.
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the trend of shopping-mall owners rethinking how to reposition their properties amid the rise of e-commerce and consumers wary of venturing into enclosed retail shops and restaurants.
Charlestown’s Bunker Hill Mall would get a 204-unit compact living-style housing project in the latest in a series of multifamily developments at local grocery-anchored shopping centers.
A comprehensive revamp of the 30-year-old Cambridgeside mall would include 575,000 square feet of additional development including 200 housing units and office space, and new sidewalk-facing storefronts.
