Boston is an attractive city with many desirable attributes, but it remains scarred by the 20th century public transportation project known as the Massachusetts Turnpike, an urban canyon that separates the Back Bay and South End.
Don Peebles’ pair of developments at highway tunnel portals in Boston come with complicated design considerations, but also potential transformational changes.
Nobody ever said it was easy to develop air rights projects in Boston, or tall buildings in Back Bay. Peebles Corp. is attempting to accomplish both feats with a new design for a long-running project.
Boston has become a sea of cranes, but not every building is a slam-dunk. Here’s why these six projects have languished.
Public pension funds’ role in financing major developments presents an opportunity to increase minority-owned businesses’ participation in commercial real estate, a developer proposing a complex hotel and condo project in Back Bay said.
Construction is expected to begin this spring on a landmark project that will change the view for Massachusetts Turnpike commuters and Newbury Street pedestrians alike, and on which Samuels & Assoc.’s Abe Menzin has played a key part.
The western edge of Back Bay is becoming the epicenter of Boston’s newest hotel development cluster.
