MBTA officials abruptly cancelled their largest upcoming real estate project, a redevelopment of Cambridge’s 30-acre Alewife station and parking garage that could have included millions of square feet of commercial space and housing.
Two MassDOT-owned parcels in Boston’s Back Bay and Chinatown sit undeveloped while officials await signs of progress from their hand-picked developer, Peebles Corporation.
Don Peebles’ pair of developments at highway tunnel portals in Boston come with complicated design considerations, but also potential transformational changes.
One of the most complex recent air rights projects in Boston would bring a 300,000-square-foot life science tower to Back Bay along with 100 percent affordable housing and accessibility upgrades to the MBTA’s Hynes station.
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.
The developer of a mixed-use project above the Massachusetts Turnpike in Back Bay is dropping plans for a hotel in favor of office-lab space, and swapping out luxury condos for 125 affordable apartments.
Luxury towers have eroded Chinatown’s working-class housing stock for years. Now, a pair of proposals would generate a combined 328 affordable units as officials and community groups seek to address the housing crisis through surplus property dispositions.
A partnership between two Black-owned development companies got the nod from Massachusetts Department of Transportation officials to pursue an affordable housing and life science project on a Big Dig remnant parcel at the edge of Chinatown.
Six developers have submitted proposals for a state-owned parcel at the doorstep to downtown Boston, and in keeping with the dominant trend in local commercial real estate, five include a lab component.
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.
The $550 million Omni hotel in the Seaport District is billed as a new way of developing real estate in Boston, giving minority-owned firms a stake in ownership, construction and operations.
