Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne abandoned a plan to develop a new public safety complex outside Union Square after the city lost a legal battle over an eminent domain taking of the 90 Washington St. property.
The visual centerpiece of Union Square’s overhaul has landed permanent financing via JLL and a major insurance firm.
Days before attorneys representing Massachusetts state government and the town of Milton face off in a dispute over the MBTA Communities law, Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell sought to spotlight the cities and towns that are taking the opposite tack.
A developer’s speculative bet on Somerville’s Brickbottom as a new life science industry cluster gained momentum with a 76,000-square-foot lease to Cambridge-based ADA Forsyth Institute.
Somerville is preparing to tackle lingering retail storefront vacancies and the displacement of local businesses that threaten to sap vibrancy from its commercial districts even as a sizable development pipeline is poised to bring a boost in foot traffic to prominent squares.
A Somerville landscape architect designed the first of a dozen public spaces that will be located within the 20-acre USQ project.
A recent column on Union Square development sorely missed the mark, painting an erroneous and skewed picture of how one parcel of land in the neighborhood, owned by Hamilton Co., is shaking out.
To see a current example of local bureaucracy run amok, one need look no further than Somerville, where city officials are giving the run-around to a promising proposal, and giving up their power to a big, corporate developer.
The developer behind the neighborhood’s massive, 2.7 million-square-foot project says it plans to bring local retailers into its new buildings alongside national credit tenants amid fears longtime businesses could be displaced.
The master developer of Somerville’s Union Square has paid $200 million for a cluster of industrial parcels that have been eyed for a 1.5 million-square-foot life science and hotel project.
The MBTA inaugurated its first new transit line in 20 years on Monday morning when the Green Line Extension’s first phase opened in Somerville’s Union Square.
Like so many parts of the MBTA, the new Green Line Extension is late – 31 years after being first agreed to, to be precise.
Mark your calendars now: March 21 is set to go down as the most significant Opening Day in 35 years.
The start of service is on the horizon for the most significant expansion of the MBTA’s core system in decades, but riders will need to continue their wait to learn when they’ll be able to ride the Green Line all the way into Medford.
A local developer is proposing to demolish a former bakery building halfway between Union and Porter squares and replace it with labs.
After years of planning, USQ broke ground on our first site at the $2 billion Union Square redevelopment in July. Next year, transformative transit investments will arrive, and plans for new buildings in the neighborhood will be revealed.
The first phase in a planned mixed-use development next to Somerville’s Union Square looks finally set to get out of the ground.
Texas-based developer Criterion Development Partners has bought a trio of industrial parcels on the Somerville/Boston line for $10.3 million.
Work on the Green Line Extension missed an internal target for the second time in several months. But the T says the project is still on pace to meet its target of completion by December 2021.
Work on a high-end hotel planned for a 1.1-acre site halfway between Porter and Union Squares looks set to begin after the project landed construction financing.
