by Steve Adams | Jul 31, 2022
Art galleries, Bocce courts and farm-to-table restaurants serving up produce grown on-site: Not the amenity list at a Millennial-focused apartment complex but features at recent developments by Benchmark Senior Living, led by CEO Tom Grape.
by Banker & Tradesman | Feb 25, 2022
Kaplan Construction of Brookline has broken ground on the first affordable housing complex for seniors to be built in the Upham’s Corner section of Dorchester.
by State House News Service | Feb 10, 2021
Public and private low-income and affordable housing property operators should begin exploring options to vaccinate residents and staff now before the state activates the next phase of its vaccine distribution plan,
by Steve Adams | Jan 3, 2021
Jennifer Francis has a day-to-day window into how all commercial real estate sectors are performing throughout the pandemic as an executive vice president of Newton-based RMR Group.
by Banker & Tradesman | Dec 27, 2020
An unprecedented need for senior housing is coming. The question is whether we can provide enough safe, affordable, comfortable and care-appropriate options before the wave hits the shore.
by Steve Adams | Nov 15, 2020
Peabody Properties is among a group of Boston-area multifamily landlords and property managers that are working with their tenants to prevent evictions. Adam Kenney oversees management, leasing and sales for the company for 6,000 units at more than 60 properties.
by Steve Adams | Oct 8, 2020
Boston-based Taurus Investment Holdings is making its first investment in the senior housing sector with a $200 million acquisition of six Massachusetts properties in a joint venture with Burlington-based Northbridge Cos.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 5, 2020
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. has filed plans with the city of Boston for a 68-unit project just north of Franklin Park in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 2, 2020
Belmont Town Meeting members recently approved zoning necessary for a plan by Northland Development Corp. to build 150 units of senior housing on a former part of the McClean Hospital grounds.
by Steve Adams | Aug 14, 2020
Resuming their busy approval process after adjusting meeting and public comment protocols, Boston Planning & Development Agency directors gave the go-ahead to 354 housing units, including 254 at a trio of projects in the active Allston-Brighton submarket.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jun 25, 2020
A Newton Center elderly and disabled housing complex has received $8 million in refinancing from Rockport Mortgage Corp. of Gloucester.
by Steve Adams | Jun 24, 2020
Brookline town meeting Tuesday authorized the $14.8 million purchase of a 4-acre portion of the Newbury College campus from an Ohio developer that plans senior housing on part of the remaining site.
by Susan Gittelman | Apr 5, 2020
Subsidized housing funding comes with extremely strict deadlines for performance. If an project is delayed not only can costs increase, as prices for materials rise, but project funds can actually disappear.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 23, 2019
The late, famed Boston residential developer and landlord Harold Brown recieved another honor last week when 2Life Communities and Congregation Kehillath Israel broke ground on a Coolidge Corner affordable housing complex named in his honor.
by Steve Adams | Sep 17, 2019
A senior housing specialist has acquired the 7.8-acre former Newbury College campus in Brookline for $34 million.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 7, 2019
If housing instability or a lack of a service-rich environment drives overutilization of the health care system, health care providers should be able to write a prescription for an affordable home, equipped with supportive resident services.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Jun 2, 2019
Some affluent suburbs like Weston are trying to use age-restricted Chapter 40B affordable housing developments to gain “safe harbor” from the law without helping change the dynamics of the regional real estate market.
by State House News Service | Mar 12, 2019
In increasing numbers, senior citizens in Massachusetts are turning to assisted living or living at home with assistance, and those choices are exacerbating problems in the nursing home industry.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Jan 27, 2019
The dirty little secret is that town officials like over-55 projects mainly because of what they aren’t: New homes and apartments that would attract families with children to their community.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 20, 2018
A proposed senior housing development in Devens called Shirley Commons has received a rental housing award from the Baker-Polito administration, allowing it to move forward with construction in spring of 2019.