by Steve Adams | Jan 30, 2025
Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne abandoned a plan to develop a new public safety complex outside Union Square after the city lost a legal battle over an eminent domain taking of the 90 Washington St. property.
by CommonWealth Beacon | Dec 17, 2024
Somerville will now be the second city in...
by Steve Adams | Nov 17, 2024
Somerville officials and one of its key commercial landlords wanted to stem the exodus of clean energy startups with a big, new development. But the presidential election and market realities are threatening that vision.
by James Sanna | Oct 30, 2024
State officials have picked Northampton to round out its fossil fuel-free building pilot program, skipping over an application from Somerville officials.
by Steve Adams | Oct 18, 2024
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in favor of a developer that challenged an eminent domain taking of its property for a new Somerville public safety complex, awarding $30 million for the acquisition.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Oct 6, 2024
If political happy talk could be converted into housing units, the cost of a home wouldn’t be nearing $1 million in Greater Boston. But it’s a reality our state and local pols seem incapable of grasping.
by Steve Adams | May 15, 2024
Developer Rafi Properties is back with a new proposal for a tech campus near Somerville’s Union Square, reducing building heights and parking while seeking to prevent displacement of the cultural economy.
by Steve Adams | Feb 29, 2024
A developer’s speculative bet on Somerville’s Brickbottom as a new life science industry cluster gained momentum with a 76,000-square-foot lease to Cambridge-based ADA Forsyth Institute.
by Steve Adams | Feb 13, 2024
At neighborhood meetings last fall, residents objected to Rafi Properties’ proposed building heights of up to 245 feet, plans for 1,252 parking spaces and loss of arts and cultural space.
by Steve Adams | Dec 10, 2023
Advocates say Gov. Maura Healey’s housing plan is missing opportunity to expand a model that’s shown a track record of success in Boston and across the U.S. for decades: community land trusts.
by Steve Adams | Nov 19, 2023
Somerville is preparing to tackle lingering retail storefront vacancies and the displacement of local businesses that threaten to sap vibrancy from its commercial districts even as a sizable development pipeline is poised to bring a boost in foot traffic to prominent squares.
by Steve Adams | Oct 29, 2023
A Somerville landscape architect designed the first of a dozen public spaces that will be located within the 20-acre USQ project.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Sep 3, 2023
To see a current example of local bureaucracy run amok, one need look no further than Somerville, where city officials are giving the run-around to a promising proposal, and giving up their power to a big, corporate developer.
by Cameron Sperance | Apr 23, 2023
The developer behind the neighborhood’s massive, 2.7 million-square-foot project says it plans to bring local retailers into its new buildings alongside national credit tenants amid fears longtime businesses could be displaced.
by Steve Adams | Mar 24, 2023
BioMed Realty is targeting a mid-2023 completion for the first phase of its 495,000-square-foot Assembly Innovation Park campus. The San Diego developer and construction manager John Moriarty & Assoc. held a topping-off ceremony Thursday for the project.
by James Sanna | Mar 8, 2023
With the Boston City Council expected to vote on Mayor Michelle Wu’s rent control proposal at its meeting today, a leading progressive city councilor in Somerville announced he’s introduced his own rent control proposal.
by Steve Adams | Jan 8, 2023
Gary Kerr is the face of Greystar’s expanding profile in Massachusetts commercial real estate, as its developments rise in East Bridgewater, Somerville and Everett.
by State House News Service | Dec 9, 2022
Residents in cities north of Boston only have to wait a few more days, the last in a decades-long span of promises and anticipation, before they can hop on a Green Line trolley into the state’s capital city.
by James Sanna | Nov 29, 2022
A trio of development companies are partnering to turn a long-vacant grocery store parcel in the heart of Somerville’s Winter Hill neighborhood into hundreds of new apartments.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 16, 2022
Despite the general softening of the life science real estate market, a major pension fund has decided to back Somerville’s latest spec lab high-rise.