Rendering by McKay Architects.
DND Homes of Burlington has filed plans to replace three "dated" buildings with a total of between 12 and 18 apartments on Dighton Street, off Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton Center, with a four-story, 42-unit apartment building with 34 parking spaces in a garage. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the BPDA board today unanimously approved a plan to turn the Comfort Inn at 900 Morrissey Boulevard into 99 apartments. Under the proposal by Pine Street Inn and The Community Builders, the building would have full-time staff to help residents adjust to their new lives. Read more.
New Balance's development wing says it will soon file plans to replace a one-story commercial building at 131 North Beacon St., at Hichborn Street, in Brighton with a six-story, 78-unit condo building. Read more.
Rendering by Design Resource Team.
GVW Construction has filed plans with the BPDA to replace its current building at 1188 Bennington St. in East Boston with two buildings with 40 apartments - across Bennington from where another developer wants to replace what's left of a former casket factory with 220 apartments. Read more.
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority announced today it plans to start over with plans to develop six acres it owns near the South Boston convention center, rather than going forward with either of the two mixed-use development proposals it had received. Read more.
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
A developer has proposed replacing a vintage-furniture store at 115 Boston St. in Dorchester with a two-building, six-story complex with 90 "compact" apartments. Read more.
California life-sciences developer IQHQ says it will soon file plans with the BPDA to replace Marty's Liquors, which closed recently at 103 North Beacon St. in Allston - just down the street from where it hopes to build a three-building life-sciences complex. Read more.
A Houston real-estate company says it will soon file plans with the BPDA to replace an automotive warehouse and two-family house at 22-24 Pratt St. in Allston with a new residential building with 316 units. Read more.
Street-level rendering by Grassi Design Group.
The owner of the parking lot at 17 West St. in Downtown Crossing has filed plans to build a 15-story, 94-room hotel on the less than 1/10th acre parcel. Read more.
Rendering of smaller Cheney Street apartment building by Icon Architecture.
A non-profit group that originally proposed building 59 affordable and assisted-living apartments for senior citizens and 15 affordable condos on and near Cheney Street in Roxbury has filed revised plans with the BPDA that decrease the number of apartments to 48 and the number of condos to 12. Read more.
Rendering by Context.
A pair of developers have proposed a four-story, 18-unit condo building on what is now a vacant lot that stretches between Dorchester Avenue and Boston Street in the Polish Triangle, just south of Andrew Square. Read more.
Allston's changing face in rendering by Embarc (newest proposed building in baby blue). See it larger.
A developer this week filed detailed plans with the BPDA to replace the condemned former post office on Harvard Avenue in Allston and three neighboring lots with a six-story, 170-unit apartment building. Read more.
A New York developer that paid $80 million for a slice of Gillette's land in South Boston in 2021 says it will soon file detailed plans for a new building there that will have both lab and retail space, or as it calls it, "a vibrant, inclusive mixed use project that integrates into and complements the Fort Point neighborhood." Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects.
A developer has filed plans to replace a car wash at 247 Hancock St. in Dorchester with a six-story, 47-unit residential building. Read more.
A trio of developers say they will soon submit plans to replace a Wentworth Institute of Technology sports field at 500 Huntington Ave. with two buildings aimed at "innovative" life-sciences R&D. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc. Gateway to the Arboretum on the right.
Two developers today filed plans for a six-story, 233-unit apartment building on Arboretum Road in Roslindale that will also include creation of a "gateway" to the Arnold Arboretum to replace what is now a litter-strewn underpass beneath the Needham Line train track. Read more.
Rendering by Elkus Manfredi.
The Druker Co. has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a vacant warehouse and a parking lot with a two-building, 588,000-square-foot life-sciences complex at 1033 Washington St. in the South End. Read more.
Two weeks after one developer said it wanted to change its proposed apartment building on Fairmount Avenue in Hyde Park to condos because of the current economy, another developer has filed a request to change a proposed condo building on Hyde Park Avenue from condos to apartments due to the current economy. Read more.
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