Two years after the last effort to develop Roxbury’s long-fallow parcel P3 collapsed, the Boston Planning & Development Agency formally kicked off a new competition Thursday to extend the city’s building boom there.
Developers who had planned to build a 12-story hotel tower behind a restored historic hotel facade near Boston’s South End are asking city officials if they can convert the building into condominiums.
Boston’s life science boom offers a fresh chance to spread economic benefits to Roxbury’s most important development parcel as the city prepares to solicit proposals for the 7.6-acre site.
Local real estate markets have been sorting out the effects of the pandemic and changing buyer preferences for the new rules of living and work agreements, leading to strength in some surprising places.
At a gateway parcel in Roxbury’s Nubian Square, three potential developers have another box to check: designing buildings and public spaces to minimize the neighborhood’s asphalt-covered urban heat island and its negative effects on residents’ health.
As the city of Boston strives to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, it might look to 52 Fisher Ave. in Mission Hill for a how-to guide. Developer Zeina Talje’s interest in sustainability stretches back to her formative years in Lebanon, where her father was involved in solar hot water installation projects.
Roxbury’s city-owned parcel P3 has been a place where development proposals go to die, despite the periodic efforts of top elected officials to spread some of Boston’s building boom into a neighborhood long starved of private real estate investment.
A nonprofit that helps disadvantaged young people in 18 countries find careers in the building trades is moving to a newly-completed headquarters in Roxbury and rebranding itself to reflect a broadening mission.
In a decade of commercial real estate success in Boston, the Roxbury neighborhood has lagged seriously behind. Could that be changing?
In addition to approving a major change to the former GE headquarters parcel at 15 Necco St., the Boston Planning & Development Agency board gave approval to a pair of small multifamily projects in two city neighborhoods.
A new series of bus lanes in downtown Boston has shaved 12 minutes off a major MBTA bus route: the Silver Line’s SL4 and SL5 service to Nubian Square.
A 36-unit development in Roxbury has landed a permanent loan to help preserve its affordability.
Boston-based developer and contractor Cruz Cos. has been given the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year award.
At a trash-strewn vacant lot in Roxbury’s Fort Hill section, Boston design-build firm Placetailor and architects Generate Technologies are making a bid to revolutionize how buildings are built in Massachusetts.
The Boston Planning & Development Agency did more than approve a landmark new tower over the Mass. Pike. at its March meeting Thursday.
A $22 million loan from Rockland Trust Co. is kickstarting a mixed-income development including mixed-income housing and a new headquarters for Cruz Cos., one of the region’s largest minority-owned construction firms.
The Boston Planning & Development Agency board approved a tower funded in part by affordable housing payments from Millennium Partners’ Winthrop Square tower, which will also contain a new Boston Public Library branch on the ground floor.
A 45-unit luxury apartment project planned for the heart of Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood has acquired construction financing.
JP Morgan Chase has received approval to open two more branches as part of its expansion in the Greater Boston area.
As I have heard from people living in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain in my new role as chief executive officer at Urban Edge, it has become clear that as much as residents are concerned about being able to afford to live in these neighborhoods.
