A decades-in-the-making project to transform a mostly vacant former military base south of Boston into a buzzy mixed-use development is poised for a major step forward with an assist from Beacon Hill.
Boston, Worcester and Springfield may be the Bay State’s three largest cities, but if Congressman Jake Aucincloss has his way, they may get competition.
Money for a sewer and water connection isn’t headline news – unless it means unlocking 6,000 long-anticipated housing units near a commuter rail station.
House Speaker Ron Mariano on Thursday voiced an openness to considering a local-option real estate transfer tax to boost the affordable housing supply and indicated he would use water and sewer infrastructure to unlock a long-stalled development site.
A Norfolk Superior Court judge has ordered a multifamily developer hired to helm the troubled redevelopment of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station to pay $63 million for failing to pay for a range of development and upkeep costs on the property before the firm was removed from its master developer role.
The full-time administrator in charge of the troubled Union Point redevelopment on the South Shore is stepping down from his post, as the Southfield Redevelopment Authority begins the search for another master developer at the 1,450-acre site.
A Dutch technology company that backed out of plans to become the first major commercial tenant at Union Point in Weymouth has committed to another property south of Boston.
Lenders have scheduled another foreclosure auction at Union Point on the South Shore, the latest round involving 214 acres zoned for up to 8 million square feet of commercial development.
A local redevelopment authority has voted to remove LStar Ventures as master developer of the 1,450-acre Union Point property, but some of the company’s executives say they hope to take control of the project.
A Boston-based lender foreclosed on 115 acres of developable residential parcels at Union Point in Weymouth, in the latest setback for master developer LStar Communities.
LStar Communities isn’t the first company to come up short trying to crack the code of what’s needed to attract commercial development at Union Point, the 1,450-acre former naval air station in South Weymouth. It likely won’t be the last.
LStar has struggled to attract development to the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station property.
Heather Quintal is the fifth generation in her family to work with stone.
State-sponsored construction of a half-mile parkway at Union Point has begun, improving access to one of the largest undeveloped parcels in Greater Boston and prompting new hopes of economic development after two decades of false starts.
The former South Weymouth Naval Air Station has been renamed by its master developer, LStar Communities, as Union Point.
