A look back at 100 years of land-use history in Greater Boston raises questions about how much progress the state can make if Beacon Hill continues its extreme deference to local control over certain housing issues.
A prominent researcher who spent a year combing through archived municipal planning documents, state reports and local media accounts of land-use debates in Greater Boston says it’s clear many suburban areas have used zoning as a tool to exclude for over 100 years.
An Everett development site that’s approved for a 111-unit housing complex was acquired by a Boston real estate firm for $4.25 million.
Burlington officials hope to encourage up to 4.4 million square feet of new development and a new series of connections between properties in and around the town’s mall. Area landlords are watching intently.
Several Boston suburbs will their required multifamily zoning districts shrink under the state’s MBTA Communities zoning reform. But advocates say compromise regulations are still valuable progress.
The next phase of a transit-oriented development in Newburyport will include an 84-unit apartment building designed with Passive House principles.
Development of 293 apartments next to Dedham’s Legacy Place lifestyle center would create the town’s third-highest-assessed property.
Housing experts, developers and business leaders have high hopes that the recently passed Housing Choice Act will boost housing construction in Massachusetts, reversing a decades-long decline in the number of units built each year in the Bay State.
The first phase of Alliance Residential’s newest local multifamily development brings 110 apartments to a former commercial property in Billerica.
A multifamily developer that’s built projects in Boston’s Seaport District, Watertown and Westwood in recent years has acquired a 2-acre site overlooking the Bass River in Beverly for $5.5 million.
The path to tearing down the suburbs’ anti-density “paper walls” runs directly through town and city halls. That’s where you, the very people who know the realities of the state’s housing shortage first-hand, come in.
A newly-completed apartment complex steps from the MBTA’s South Weymouth commuter rail station is 60 percent leased in the first joint venture between a pair of local developers.
It is Greater Boston’s frontier of urban planning: How do you adapt dated, low-rise shops and office buildings for a brave, new, post-COVID world while creating a greener future with more housing?
Creating the kinds of interesting neighborhoods and producing the housing needed for growth will require more help for suburban municipalities with resource management of water, wastewater and land-use.
Financing from Rockland Trust Co. and Newburyport Bank is supporting a 76-unit transit-oriented development scheduled to open next to the MBTA commuter rail’s Newburyport station in early 2021.
The first high-rise development built in downtown Haverhill in decades has announced pricing and begun preleasing for 42 apartments overlooking the Merrimack River.
A Lynnfield developer has begun preleasing and announced rents at a Lynn apartment tower that markets Boston-style amenities at discounts to downtown properties.
A multifamily development proposed for a former Massachusetts Department of Transportation maintenance facility is attracting opposition from Medford officials who cite a loss of commercial space and safety issues.
A midrise rental complex developed in a Hingham office park under the state’s Chapter 40B affordable housing law is 50 percent leased following its recent completion by Callahan Construction Managers.
