The 1.7 million-square-foot redevelopment of the former Edison power plant in South Boston will bring nearly $20 million in community benefits including upgrades to MBTA service in City Point, and new public parks on Boston Harbor.
Now more than ever, the opportunity to reuse and reposition a property requires a critical design skill and expertise, and will prove essential to how we push forward as an industry.
Commodore Builders is nearing completion of Boston’s first cross-laminated timber building, a redevelopment of a former rivet factory into office and retail space at 69 A. St. in South Boston.
While complex, multi-faceted models of activating ground-floor space offer a potential strategy to reflect two trends in 2020 commercial real estate: a steady loss of industrial space in Boston’s urban core, and COVID-19-driven disruption to traditional retail and restaurant models.
The Matteson Cos. hopes to build an 8-story office building next to a South Boston landmark using a material that’s seeing a surge in interest in the area: cross-laminated timber.
Protecting Boston’s vulnerable real estate from flood damage in coming decades could require creation of new districts to collect payments from property owners, and a new cabinet-level resiliency czar and department at city hall to oversee the defense strategy.
At last, Boston appears to have a plan to protect one of its most important assets from sea level rise with more than sandbags and hope.
Condominiums are flooding the market in several of the city’s neighborhoods across several price ranges, threatening price declines in some of Boston’s hottest neighborhoods for the first time in many years.
As it studies future options for its 34-acre World Shaving Headquarters property in South Boston, Gillette Co. is seeking to remove some state oversight over what could be built next on portions of the prime waterfront real estate.
National Development has bought part of the site of a proposed 21-story tower in South Boston.
Boston is actively considering converting car lanes to additional sidewalk space, bicycle lanes and bus lanes to help speed the city’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Boston Planning & Development Agency did more than approve a landmark new tower over the Mass. Pike. at its March meeting Thursday.
Kems Corp. has filed plans with the Boston Planning & Development Agency to replace a single-story South Boston car repair garage with a 5-story condominium building.
A developer’s plans for a $210 million South Boston tower could include a combined heat and power plant to offset its carbon footprint.
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.
Boston-based Marcus Partners is looking to South Boston and Roslindale for multifamily investment opportunities with its $35.8-million acquisition of a 107-unit portfolio.
A South Boston townhouse that suffered a serious structural collapse on New Year’s Day was owned by developers Navem Partners and apparently undergoing renovations.
From a booming life science industry spreading further out from East Cambridge to new multifamily housing models and an e-commerce-fueled explosion in interest in distribution facilities, here’s what drove demand in 2019.
Newton-based National Development will seek approval for a 21-story tower including residential and commercial space on a development site on South Boston’s Dorchester Avenue.
A South Boston office building across the street from a large proposed development has sold for $28.85 million, according to documents filed in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
