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This warehouse on Main Street right next to Route 128 and beneath those radio towers on the hill..... ...could get turned into apartments (369-unit Chapter 40B project w/ a 549-space parking garage) under plans Lincoln Property Co. Willow Brook recently submitted to the Waltham ZBA...

Last night, the city announced its abandoning plans for this public safety complex after losing an eminent domain case over the property. https://bankerandtradesman.com/facing-39m-bill-somerville-to-sell-public-safety-site-for-housing/ (Edit: the big delta in what the SRA offered and what...

Cambridge is pretty close to effectively eliminating single-family zoning mandates citywide after yesterday's council vote. The zoning change will become effective https://bankerandtradesman.com/cambridge-councilors-back-4-story-zoning-citywide/

We don't think this has yet been posted anywhere? Along with the bigger projects the BPDA board OK'd last night (our story, if you're curious: https://bankerandtradesman.com/mission-hill-towers-okd-after-agreeing-to-additional-payments/), this funky one from Cobalt Development Partners got the...

BPDA approved: https://bankerandtradesman.com/mission-hill-towers-okd-after-agreeing-to-additional-payments/ What made the difference? $200K. From our story (which also includes the other five buildings OK'd last night):

https://bankerandtradesman.com/28-story-furnished-housing-tower-approved-in-fenway/ The Boston ZBA signed off on this project this morning. Seems like shaving two floors of the tower was the local city councilor (Durkan)'s price for support to minimize shadows on the Fenway, but it still tops...

Skanska did get back to us eventually and we've updated the story: ”We are confident about the future of office in Boston and are encouraged by recent trends that reinforce the city as our region’s economic engine. In an evolving market, we are positioning ourselves to be ready to start at the...

Popping in to add: We confirmed that the abutter lawsuit that would have held up construction was recently dismissed, but we couldn't get anyone from Skanska on the horn immediately to get more details. https://bankerandtradesman.com/back-bay-office-tower-construction-approved/

In case you haven't been following, Burlington officials have been beavering away for the last few years trying to get community support to zone the whole Mall Road area for more zoning. And now, with office vacancies there hitting 20 percent, they're looking at multifamily development as the...

Phil Eng got a big hug from Santa (alias, MBTA COO Ryan Coholan) for his slow zone-removal work this morning. When a reporter asked Gov. Healey about this morning's Red Line signals debacle, she apologized ("It sucks. I'm sorry"). Elsewhere in the program, she noted there's still "more work...

A small update we published yesterday: A new proposal substituting by-right approval for 4-story buildings (instead of the 6 stories by right) is gaining support. https://bankerandtradesman.com/cambridge-weighs-4-story-compromise-on-upzoning/ We also published a much bigger dive into the...

A tidbit of how they'll make it work that we got from one of the developers for our story yesterday: https://bankerandtradesman.com/legendary-music-halls-second-act-seeks-housing-harmony-in-allston/

In case you hadn't seen it, yet, the Revs stadium got included in the just-released economic development bill: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H5100 Key bit starts at the end of page 296 of the PDF. Our story is here, if anyone is curious...

https://bankerandtradesman.com/infrastructure-used-to-raise-significant-hurdles-for-housing/ We took a look at some of the towns going in the opposite direction of Lexington, et al., places like Hopkinton that are leveraging a lack of water and sewer infrastructure to hamstring the amount of...

It's a very slight increase. Building B is there in the "before" image but it's greyed out for reasons. The massing model @NorthshoreCity posted up-thread has the view from Route 9 before this size reduction., which more clearly shows Building B.

As @Equilibria speculated, City Realty has shrunk its proposal down by about 266,000 square feet. “We definitely heard from everybody that 20 stories is a number that is too high for this project, as well as looking for us to reduce density overall,” Cliff Kensington, director of acquisitions...

The first phase of this project vaulted a key hurdle this week: fast-track approval from state environmental regulators for its first phase (the battery-based energy storage facility). https://bankerandtradesman.com/state-backs-500m-energy-storage-project-in-everett-docklands/

This week, we've got a news story and an opinion piece looking into why Boston's seen so little office-to-housing conversions when other cities are seeing a lot more success. In theory, Gensler (the architecture firm that's done the most modeling, surveying and actual design work on these...

Come for our reporter Steve Adams' photo of how The Davis Cos.' 101 Smith lab building turned out: Stay for our story highlighting how some developers see the investment fundamentals in West Cambridge (and, to a certain extent, in South Boston) possibly changing back in favor of multifamily...

We made some public records requests of the Wu administration and found that they and J. Safra are negotiating some substantive changes to the property's lease from the city, and earlier this year J. Safra began working with Elkus Manfredi on a visioning plan for the property...