Boston officials approved zoning changes designed to encourage high-rise housing development in three downtown neighborhoods and reinvigorate areas that have been drained of economic activity by rising office vacancies.
Boston planning officials approved new downtown zoning regulations designed to encourage development of multifamily housing and reinvigorate investment offsetting declines in office occupancy.
Opponents of Boston’s downtown “Skyline” rezoning proposal are mounting a last-minute campaign as it heads to a vote of the Boston Planning & Development Agency board of directors Thursday.
Owners of potential prime development sites in Downtown Crossing warn that Boston’s downtown rezoning won’t live up to its billing in catalyzing major projects.
Supporters and opponents of Boston’s proposed downtown rezoning will get additional time to weigh on a plan to hike maximum building heights to 500 feet.
The latest Boston downtown rezoning plan heads for approval next month with a new high-rise district designed to stimulate housing development.
Changes designed to attract more developers and commercial tenants to downtown Boston and avoid a looming fiscal chasm tied to declining office occupancy are moving closer to the finish line.
Can downtown Boston escape the so-called urban doom loop? Probably. But it’s going to take a lot more than new “skyline” zoning for taller towers to bring it back.
The final downtown Boston rezoning plan encourages multifamily housing and active retail and entertainment uses, while placing limits on research labs.
Rezoning plans for downtown Boston and the Mattapan neighborhood moved forward in a strategy designed to encourage post-pandemic reinvestment and housing production.
Proposed new downtown Boston zoning drew critiques as a developer-driven plan that allows excessive building heights and puts historical properties at risk.
The study recommendations offer “consistent and fair baseline and bonus heights” for new projects, the draft plan states, replacing a mishmash of more than 20 height limits.
Neighborhood residents and real estate executives are sparring as a developer renews its push for a 24-story tower in Downtown Crossing. At stake: competing visions for downtown Boston’s future.
Officials provided new details on how developers could receive approval for bigger projects in downtown Boston in exchange for bankrolling an assortment of community benefits, ranging from affordable housing to transportation upgrades.
The Boston Preservation Alliance added its voice to opponents of a proposed Downtown Crossing office tower and urged city officials not to approve “spot zoning” for taller buildings in the neighborhood.
Base building heights for development in parts of Boston’s Downtown Crossing would increase from 155 to 400 feet under proposed new zoning unveiled by the Boston Planning and Development Agency.
As remote and hybrid work entrench themselves, Boston’s class B office market looks like potentially fertile ground for conversion into thousands of new housing units.
A developer has reactivated plans for a high-rise in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, on the same property where it previously proposed a 59-story tower that drew opposition from neighborhood residents.
