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The Boston Housing Authority is once again seeking a private partner to rehabilitate a dated housing project. Like One Charlestown, the partner's interest comes from adding a significant number of market rate units to what is now an exclusively affordable community. In this case there are 804...

The John Jeffries House, an affordable hotel right next to MGH and Beacon Hill, was sold last summer to a developer that also bought the adjacent parking garage. No public word on what they are planning, but "conversations" with the community will begin within the next month. The Guardian has an...

Lots of exciting things are happening with vehicle automation and vehicle to vehicle/infrastructure/bike-ped communication, but mostly in Michigan and the Bay Area. MIT, Volpe and some other locals have been doing good work, but there has been no real ecosystem here. Two developments over the...

Ah, the parkways. A network of roads for carriages to get from park to park, for calm Sunday driving, and to funnel the working class to the right beaches. The whole concept is from another time, and the parkways today serve a wide variety of purposes. Some remain tranquil parkways, but others...

The Boston Housing Authoritiy released an RFP for the redevelopment of 1,100 of their low-income apartments spread across 41 buildings in Charlestown. The twist here is the lack of public funding for the project: the developer will be expected to find their own funds for redeveloping the...