Northeastern Buys Private Dorm Tower for $169M
Northeastern University acquired Boston’s first privately-built student residence hall from a Dallas-based developer for nearly $169 million.
Research: Starter Homes Ballot Question Would Unlock Hundreds of Houses Per Year
New research from Tufts University found that a proposed ballot question would have “a real but limited impact” on Massachusetts’ housing problems.
Wentworth Institute Shrinks Campus Building Plans
Wentworth Institute of Technology is partnering with student housing specialist Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions on redesigned new student housing projects on its Boston campus.
Amid Headwinds, College and Lab Projects Move Forward
These three projects are bright spots offering valuable lessons. All three required years of work and complex transactions. All are entering construction during unprecedented uncertainty.
Tufts Partners with Capstone on School’s Biggest Dorm Project
Tufts University and Capstone Development Partners unveiled plans for the school’s largest-ever dormitory project, a 667-bed development across from the MBTA’s Medford/Tufts station.
Future Uncertain for Boston’s Compact Living Experiment
City officials hoped developers would build more units per acre and pass along the savings to residents. It hasn’t turned out that way, and it’s an open question whether the pilot that permitted around 2,000 units in three years will come back.
Commercial Site Near Tufts Pitched for Lab Development
A shovel-ready life science development site is being offered for sale following recent rezoning designed to enlarge Medford’s life science industry cluster.
Hot Property: Tufts University Joyce Cummings Center
The Joyce Cummings Center at Tufts University received national recognition by a building trades group for efficiency in a design-build project.
Tufts Announces New Dorm Near Green Line Extension
Tufts University will develop a new on-campus residence hall across from the new MBTA’s Green Line Extension station in Medford for its first on-campus dorm project in nearly two decades.
Hot Property: Joyce Cummings Center
Tufts University’s new Joyce Cummings Center houses 148,000 square feet of interdisciplinary learning space.
Cummings Seeks to Expand Medford Biotech Cluster
Cummings Properties is proposing a 60,000-square-foot expansion of its Medford lab complex to meet spillover demand from life science companies.
Housing Developer Says Chinatown Project Stalled Without Changes
A 168-unit affordable housing and hotel tower planned for a city-owned parcel in Boston’s Chinatown is unlikely to move ahead because of rippling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when eviction pressures are squeezing neighborhood residents.
Urban Planning as a Tool of White Supremacy: The Other Lesson from Minneapolis
Racial segregation was not the byproduct of urban planning; it was, in many cases, its intention. The effect was and still is devastating.
Tufts to Pay $2M for Name on Final Green Line Extension Station
The Green Line station in the works at the intersection of College and Boston avenues in Medford will be named Medford/Tufts, under an agreement announced Thursday by Tufts University.
Unfinished Business in the South End
It’s been 35 years since 50 Herald St. was designated as a preferred spot for affordable housing in Boston’s South End, part of a community benefits agreement tied to expansion of New England Medical Center and Tufts University.
Biotech Startup Moves from Cambridge To Medford
Seventh Sense Biosystems (7SBio) has leased 9,000...
