State officials have approved Boston leaders’ controversial decision to scrap a waterfront plan that would have enabled a pair of high-profile towers to rise along the harbor’s edge, Mayor Michelle Wu said yesterday.
Former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s legacy of largely apolitical planning appears to be well and truly dead. Mayor Kim Janey’s withdrawal of the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan raises potent questions about the future of other supposedly-settled city plans.
Seven environmental protection groups are calling on Boston Mayor Kim Janey to withdraw the city’s downtown waterfront harbor plan key to future development in the area.
The Superior Court decision on the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan, or MHP is a victory for protecting open access to Boston’s beautiful waterfront. It’s also an opportunity to reimagine what waterfront development should look like. What it is not is a decision about any one individual project.
Legislators on Beacon Hill urgently need to step in and clarify the rules for waterfront development in Massachusetts following a bombshell ruling in a dispute over a downtown Boston tower.
Boston has become a sea of cranes, but not every building is a slam-dunk. Here’s why these six projects have languished.
The kickoff of formal review of a 865,000-square-foot office and residential tower at what developer Chiofaro Co. describes as “Boston’s front door to the world” is rekindling the battle over building heights on Boston Harbor.
Developer Don Chiofaro has filed plans for a 600-foot-tall tower on the site of Boston’s Harbor Garage after years of hints and legal and political wrangling.
