Nearly 20 years after development on the site was first proposed, Newton city councilors delivered nearly unanimous approval for 753 homes on the parking lots next to the MBTA’s Riverside station.
Commercial building owners in Newton will be required to reduce fossil fuel use that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions or submit payments to the city.
State and city officials gathered Monday to celebrate a new commitment by the MBTA to rebuild and modernize the Newtonville commuter rail station to make it larger and more accessible.
Plans for housing on the large parking lot next to the MBTA’s Riverside Green Line terminal have come back to life.
Northland Investment Corp. is seeking to replace 193,000 square feet of office space in a historic Newton mill with brick-and-beam residences in a significant, proposed change to its Upper Falls development.
As Newton’s teacher strike drags on, it’s worth asking: Doesn’t Newton’s historical development skepticism play a role in the city’s current political and financial predicament?
The new owner of a 292-unit West Newton apartment development obtained $117 million in construction financing after acquiring the 3-acre site.
Newton city councilors approved a plan 21-2 Monday night that still exceeds the minimum number of units required under state law.
Newton city councilors are facing pressure to scale back plans to rezone the community’s 13 commercial nodes for more multifamily development to comply with the state’s MBTA Communities law, but one of the mooted suggestions could come at a cost: plans to revamp its commuter rail stations.
Gov. Maura Healey has an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s housing crisis. But some recent developments in Boston’s suburbs and exurbs should raise concerns about the willingness on part of some local communities to embrace the governor’s call to action.
Backers of a multifamily rezoning effort were thoroughly routed in Newton last night’s local elections, while a slate of councilors who backed one of the biggest housing-focused upzonings in recent Cambridge history cruised to victory.
Perched at a gateway intersection to the Newtonville neighborhood, Mark Development’s Trio apartment block is a Rorschach test for competing visions of Newton’s future.
The latest version of Newton’s upzoning plan shrinks the size of buildings and the number of parcels where new housing will be allowed. But officials still think the plan can pass muster under the state’s MBTA Communities zoning reform law.
State housing officials announced Thursday afternoon that they will let Boston-area towns and cities add a potentially controversial requirement for mixed-use buildings to zoning changes designed to comply with the MBTA Communities transit-oriented zoning law.
Boston-based Greatland Realty Partners and Barings acquired a Newton office park where life science developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities had planned a lab conversion.
Redevelopment and expansion of the former Santander Bank branch building in West Newton will create 50 apartments in a project approved for Mark Development.
One project among many up for federal infrastructure dollars is revealing that state and Congressional leaders are not always on the same page when it comes to what makes a state application competitive.
Nearly 1 in 4 Massachusetts residents worked from home in 2021, new Census data shows, making the state the fourth-biggest adopter of the new mode of work.
The former AMC Chestnut Hill cinema will be replaced by a 90,000-square-foot expansion of The Street Chestnut Hill retail complex, including 20 new stores and restaurants.
A proposal is moving through the State House to let Cambridge and several of the wealthiest Boston suburbs ban natural gas use in new buildings. It’s the wrong idea at the wrong time and could hurt housing production where it’s needed most.
