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Article is behind a paywall, but Lowell is selling the vacant Courthouse lot Downtown on Hurd Street to Heritage Properties to make way for a 200-unit market rate development -- Heritage Properties seals deal on 76m housing development in Lowell...

I think the problem is that Copley gets much more transient traffic than the big parks. It's not a destination picnic spot in the way The Esplanade or Public Garden is. It's mostly people on their 30 minute lunch breaks, or coffee breaks, or chilling for a few minutes after work making a call or...

It’s notable that while Boston gives developers a huge tax break for office-to-res conversions, it doesn’t give any relief from the inclusionary/affordable housing mandates requiring between 17-20% of units to be rented at below market rates. I’d rather see the City reduce the tax break - to...

7-1-2026

The Malden ZBA approved variances to allow a 7-story mixed-use building containing 73 condos in the heart of Downtown at 1 Salem Street. It would replace the infamous Downtown Malden hole that has existed at the crossroads of Ferry, Salem, and Main Streets since 2000 when a historic building was...

This is just dumb and greedy and risks spurring the kind of backlash which endangers the entire MF housing zoning overhaul. It’s a 7500 square-foot lot and they’re proposing a 6-story building that nearly goes up to the lot lines of the neighboring homes on Wyman. Build a nice 4-6 unit building...

The former Doyle’s Pub redevelopment on Washington Street (5/1/26) -

It's really not a bad idea. Even if it was just two stories of apartments it would be progress. The library is surrounded by buildings that are between 3.5 and 7 stories; it's really the odd one out in terms of height. The City should not make such a big deal then of how innovative it is...

Downtown redevelopment in Watertown Square --

Melrose has an impressive amount of residential projects, including several which are very transit-oriented, actively under construction - it's certainly putting Malden to shame -- 529 Franklin Street - 34 units Includes renovation of existing three story mixed-use structure with attached new...

According to the Lexington Planning Department's MBTA Communities Zoning tracker, this application has been in front of the Historic District Commission on September 4, October 9, and December 4 in 2025, and February 5, March 5, April 2, and if you want to provide input will be back again on May...

According to the MBTA's original estimates at the time the bid was awarded, this project was projected to take approximately 17 months to complete and wrap up construction in Late 2022. Now the project is approaching 3.5 years behind schedule - the amount of delay is equal to more than 2x the...

The number of units in this development has radically decreased from 322 units originally to 164 proposed today (a reduction of 49%) and the parking has vastly increased. In 2019, as part of the reviews, the Neighborhood Group actually requested that density be brought down to 166 units (see...

Dover Riverfront Development Update (1-16-2025) Small building in the foreground I believe will be a community boathouse the City is paying for —

12-20-2025 from the Esplanade —

I will be very happy if we get something built here in 2032. Do you realize that 40 years went by without anything at all getting built over the MassPike air rights parcels? And now you want to penalize one of the only two developers who managed to get a deck built in all that time? Because they...

11-29-2025 - Taken from the 17th floor of Raffles Hotel in Back Bay. Definitely starting to rise above the crowd even when viewed from the Boston side of the river where its impact will be a bit more limited due to being located a couple blocks further from the river than most of the Kendal...

The problem is that we are not building new highways or even expanding existing ones. So where are these 1,100+ cars going to go? They're going to be sitting next to you in traffic on 93 or 95 and likely aggravating the congestion problem. The only way to build our way out of the problem is to...

The new Inclusionary Zoning requirements that Suffolk is complaining about did not take effect until October 2024, so any project that has started construction likely did not fall under the newer requirements but the more permissive IZ requirements last tinkered with under the Walsh...

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/11/25/braintrees-first-mbta-communities-act-development-advances-toward-approval/?p1=hp_featurestack I was super enthusiastic about this one until I read "1.5 parking spaces per unit" - which in this case equates to over 1,100 parking spaces. This...