Boston officials approved zoning changes designed to encourage high-rise housing development in three downtown neighborhoods and reinvigorate areas that have been drained of economic activity by rising office vacancies.
Opponents of Boston’s downtown “Skyline” rezoning proposal are mounting a last-minute campaign as it heads to a vote of the Boston Planning & Development Agency board of directors Thursday.
Battle lines are entrenched as Boston officials near decision time on new ground rules for downtown development.
“RTP stands alone as Boston’s only rooftop pool open to the public. Perched 12 stories above Huntington Avenue, it offers a unique urban oasis in the middle of Back Bay.”
Owners of potential prime development sites in Downtown Crossing warn that Boston’s downtown rezoning won’t live up to its billing in catalyzing major projects.
State agencies’ pending lease expirations in downtown Boston would add over 800,000 square feet of vacancies to the beleaguered office market, prompting pleas for Gov. Maura Healey to reverse a planned real estate diet.
A new Northeastern University dorm tower in Roxbury and lab developments in Charlestown and South End received approval from Boston Planning & Development Agency directors.
The Druker Co. unveiled its designs for a 588,000-square-foot life science complex to replace a vacant industrial property near the Ink Block development in South End.
The Druker Co. is seeking to develop more life science space in Boston’s South End by replacing a commercial building with a pair of office-lab towers.
Boston-based Bain & Co. is relocating to a new office building overlooking the Boston Public Garden that reignited calls for changes in how Boston treats development projects that are delayed for extended periods.
A project to replace the former Shreve, Crump & Low jewelers building in Back Bay is under way after nearly 16 years, prompting preservationists to renew critiques of the city’s reviews of developments.
Boston’s life science boom could kickstart a South End development approved in 2013 that has yet to break ground.
Boston has become a sea of cranes, but not every building is a slam-dunk. Here’s why these six projects have languished.
In addition to a prominent affordable housing project proposed for Jamaica Plain, the Boston Planning & Development Board approved several projects and changes to projects at its Nov. 14 meeting.
A 9-story office development that’s sat on the back burner in Back Bay for a decade is set to begin in late 2020.
The $400 million, 33-story Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences, set to begin construction this summer, soared upward in size and market niche during seven years of permitting and predevelopment. This is the saga of its tricky path to groundbreaking.
Fresh off its signing of a nearly 400,000-square-foot office lease in Back Bay, online retailer Wayfair is already scouting real estate for its biggest expansion to date.
