BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE | Developments

[chris08876]

Project: 55 India Street

Boston Residential Development, LLC was given approval to move forward with its plans to construct a twelve-story residential development that includes 44 condominium units and 4,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space in the heart of downtown along the Greenway. 55 India Street will contain one-, two-, and three-bedroom units in a building that is designed for residents to take advantage of the many public transportation options in the area. The building will have no on-site parking, but it will offer secure bicycle storage for every unit.

Project: 45 L Street

45 L Street will be a five-story mixed-use development containing 30 condominium units, with four of those being affordable. The building consists of 20 two-bedroom, six one-bedroom, and four three-bedroom units. The project will provide 32 on-site parking spaces and an enclosed bicycle storage facility.

Project: 933 East Second Street

The project will consist of a newly constructed four-story building containing 20 residential units with on-site parking for 27 vehicles. The building will include 17 two-bedroom units and three three-bedroom units. Three of the 20 units will be affordable.

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http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/news-calendar/news-updates/2014/10/17/bra-board-approves-nearly-$152-million-of-new-deve

[IMBY]

Originally Posted by brudy

Having lived in Boston and in LA, Boston's nimby's are a special breed. "If it's not brick, it won't stick!"

Meaning? They won't allow the construction of Poofers in Boston? Buildings built out of wood?

[chris08876]

Project: Portside at East Pier

The development, which will eventually be part of a larger project with nearly 500 residential units, is actively playing up Eastie's changing aura in its marketing: "Relax," says the website. "You've found your haven. It's every bit as luxurious as the high-rises across the harbor, but with even more spectacular views, and provides a bit more room in the budget to enjoy brand new discoveries." Budget. Room. Eastie.

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http://goeastpier.com/
http://boston.curbed.com/archives/20...onths-free.php

[chris08876]

Project: New Quincy Center

The fresh Quincy project is expected to eventually include more than 400 apartments as well as several thousand square feet of retail and commercial space, all near a Red Line stop (transit-oriented, people, transit-oriented). The first phase calls for a complex called West of Chestnut (that spot had once been dubbed Merchant Row, the site of the short-lived construction). It is slated to have 169 apartments in a six-floor building with 12,000 square feet of commercial and retail space. Construction on that should start early next year and mercifully wrap in 2016.

The second phase, East of Chestnut, will have 220 apartments and more retail. No timeline on that, except that it's to follow the first phase's completion.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/ne...pstarting.html

[chris08876]

Project: Cleveland Circle

Boston Development Group and National Development announced that the project's 92-unit apartment component would be "an age-restricted adult community much like National Development's award-winning Waterstone at Wellesley independent living community in Wellesley Lower Falls."

The project also includes a 162-room Hilton Garden Inn as well as retail along Chestnut Hill Avenue. The development team hopes to start construction in the middle of 2015, should the City of Boston and the Town of Brookline sign off—and those locals stand down.

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http://boston.curbed.com/archives/20...t-the-olds.php

[sbarn]

Originally Posted by DZH22

Boston currently has 4 600'+ towers APPROVED, with one of those currently U/C and about to take off as they finish the podium.

A bit of a bump here, but what are the 4 600'+ towers currently approved?

I was just looking at a bunch of photos of Boston and was thinking that a 800' to 1000' tower in Downtown (not Back Bay) would completely transform the skyline - perhaps to one of the best in the U.S. It has the layering and density, just needs a pinnacle in the Downtown area.

[Mike/617]

Originally Posted by sbarn

A bit of a bump here, but what are the 4 600'+ towers currently approved?

Millenium Tower
One Dalton Street
Copley Tower
North Station Tower

[chris08876]

Construction has begun on the project in post #129.


http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Bost...eastie-big.jpg

[chris08876]

New West Broadway Development; South Station Expansion

The Cornerstone Pub & Restaurant has been there more than 30 years: "An affiliate of South Boston-based City Point Capital wants to build an 11-story, 120,164-square-foot mixed-use residential building at 14 West Broadway in South Boston, according to documents filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday." [Biz Journal]

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http://boston.curbed.com/archives/20...ire-dec-24.php

[chris08876]

Fenway Center Rendering:


http://boston.curbed.com/uploads/Fen...erWestView.jpg

High Quality (3500x2200) : http://boston.curbed.com/uploads/Fen...r-Arrays-2.jpg

* Different Rendering

[chris08876]

Giant ‘Parcel U’ Development Nears Final Approval

The community process for one of the largest residential developments in the history of Forest Hills is over — except for a public hearing on variances from the zoning code the 124-unit project might need.


Parcel U, as the property is known in MBTA lingo, sits on the skinny three-acre strip between Hyde Park Avenue and the train tracks south of Ukraine Way. It includes 124 homes in a cluster of nine duplex ownership row houses and one rental multi-family building.

The public comment period for the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s public process ended Oct. 10. Here’s what we found in a review of the feedback Forest Hills residents gave the project.

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http://www.jamaicaplainnews.com/2014...inal-approval/

[chris08876]

Project: 5 Washington Street

The Boston Redevelopment Authority will hold a public meeting re: the plans to plunk a 145-unit apartment complex at 5 Washington Street in Boston's one-time Next It Neighborhood.

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http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthor...munity-meeting

[DZH22]

A couple progress shots from yesterday (1/11/15) of the 685' Millennium Tower, which will become the city's 3rd tallest building before being passed a year later by CSC.

[chris08876]

Project: 248 Dorchester Avenue

For eons the one-to-one parking-housing ratio has held forth in Boston development. That is, each new unit of housing, whether condo or apartment, demands one parking space for the theoretical owner or tenant. Despite a tightly packed populace amid a convenient, if occasionally blinkered, mass-transit (and bike-sharing) system, that ratio continues to hold on like some ancient writ everyone knows isn't applicable to the modern world but can't bring themselves to reject, however hard they try. Case in point: the new development proposed for 248 Dorchester Avenue in ever-changing Southie.

The six-story project would add 33 apartments as well as 4,400 square feet of retail to a site along Dot Ave. that's barely a five-minute walk from the Broadway T stop. Yet plans for the development currently call for 33 on-site parking spaces. One-to-one. Again. The Boston Redevelopment Authority is still reviewing 248 Dorchester, so things might change.

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http://boston.curbed.com/archives/20...r-bra.php#more

[chris08876]

Project: AC Hotel by Marriott

National Development reports it plans to build a 200-room AC Hotel by Marriott hotel in South Boston near its Ink Block project.

The Newton Lower Falls, MA firm will build the new hotel at the former sites of FW Webb and Independent Taxi. National Development previously acquired both sites and anticipates the construction on the hotel will begin later this year with an opening slated for early 2017.

The Ink Block contains three apartment buildings, totaling 315 units, and a fourth residential building with condominiums. In addition, a 50,000-square-foot Whole Foods store opened at the site on Jan. 9, according to the Boston Business Journal.

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http://www.globest.com/news/12_1040/...-355067-1.html

[chris08876]

Project: 110 Broad Street and 55 India Street

Rendering: http://media.bizj.us/view/img/501772...-667-182-0.png

Boutique real estate development firm New Boston Ventures LLC has submitted plans to restore the historic Bulfinch building and build a 12-story residential tower at 110 Broad St., a triangular downtown parcel that's adjacent to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

The 83,500-square-foot project will include 52 residential units with a ground-floor cafe on a site that's just 7,580 square feet stretching from 102-112 Broad St., according to the plans filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/re...sidential.html

[chris08876]

Roxbury’s Whittier Neighborhood Seeks $30 Million for Revitalization

Boston Housing Authority and the City of Boston are asking for $30 million from the federal government to improve quality of life in Roxbury’s Whittier neighborhood.

BHA announced Monday that it applied for an implementation grant through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Choice Neighborhoods program.

The federal program, which first began receiving funding in 2010, targets low-income neighborhoods with distressed public housing or HUD-assisted housing. It aims to help city governments and other local stakeholders address challenges associated with housing, inadequate schools, and high crime rates.

The transformation plan for the Lower Roxbury neighborhood and the surrounding Dudley Square area include bringing new housing investments to replace deeply subsidized existing housing and build new units.

The neighborhood transformation plan also calls for investments in neighborhood infrastructure and public safety, as well as a plan to create union construction jobs in the neighborhood and improve educational opportunities.

“The vacant parcels that have stood for decades blighting the area and representing the City’s disinvestment have more recently become viewed as the key to the neighborhood’s revitalization,” the plan reads.

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http://www.boston.com/real-estate/ne...K6H/story.html

[chris08876]

Followup to post #149 :
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The BRA will be hosting a meeting for the Impact Advisory Group (IAG) to meet with the development team of the proposed 14 West Broadway project in South Boston. This meeting is open to the public and is specifically designed for IAG members to discuss the project with the developer. The developer is proposing to construct a mixed use project consisting of approximately 47 condominiums, ground floor retail, and 76 parking spaces.

FEB 19, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthor...ay-iag-meeting

[chris08876]

Winchester May See More Housing in Town Center

Winchester has one of the most beautiful town centers in the Boston area, with local shops and restaurants nestled in historic 19th century buildings and a river running through town.

And soon there may be more opportunities not just to shop and stroll in the downtown, but to live there as well.

Winchester’s planning director wants to revamp the zoning rules that guide development in the town center to make way for new apartments and condos.

No big new developments are planned yet. Rather, the proposal envisions building owners converting the upper floors of some of those graceful old downtown buildings into residences, said Brian Szekely, Winchester Town Planner.

There would also be the possibility of converting commercial buildings to residential use on the northern section of Main Street, which currently entails a more modern strip of gas stations and stores.

“There is certainly a very large demand for housing in the downtown area as it is right next to a commuter rail stop,” Szekely said. “Keeping more feet on the street will help keep businesses in town as well as attract new businesses.”

The downtown rezoning is a work in progress; Szekely plans to have the proposal ready to put before voters at a town meeting on April 27.

The proposal will have to win support from at least two-thirds of the voters who cast ballots at the meeting in order to pass.

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http://www.boston.com/real-estate/co...ylK/story.html

[chris08876]

Project: Mass+Main

A 230-unit Central Square project called Mass+Main has become part of a citywide debate about demand and pricing for Cambridge housing.

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http://www.cambridgeday.com/2015/03/...dability-goal/