Rendering of proposed replacement for Stats
By adamg - 2/7/25 - 2:19 pm

The owners of the one-story Stats Bar and Grille in South Boston's Perkins Square want to replace it with a five-story building with a ground-floor restaurant and four floors of apartments. Read more.

Proposed birthing center with illuminated birth lights
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 11:12 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal voted today to hold off any vote for at least three weeks on a proposed building that would house a birthing center and offices for five other non-profit groups at 14 Winthrop St. in Roxbury, so that organizers can hold more meetings with neighbors and a Roxbury community group to try to address neighbor concerns. Read more.

Rendering of proposed four-story apartment building
By adamg - 1/31/25 - 1:54 pm

The state Housing Appeals Committee recently ruled that Weston, a town far from meeting its minimum state requirement of having 10% of its housing units be affordable, has to allow construction of an apartment building that locals have been fighting for years as the "Weston whopper." Read more.

Rendering of proposed Great Scott entrance, featuring a green awning
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 10:03 am

A developer and two music impresarios this week filed detailed plans with the Boston Planning Department for a nine-story building at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street in Allston that will feature a return of Great Scott from the other end of Harvard as well as the continued existence of O'Brien's Pub, all topped by 139 apartments. Read more.

Rendering of proposed 5-story apartment building on Glenville Ave.
By adamg - 1/28/25 - 10:20 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to add four stories and 14 apartments to the building where the Glenville Stops bar used to be at 85-93 Glenville Ave. in Allston. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/25 - 4:08 pm

Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller reports UMass Amherst is looking to see if any developers might be interested in doing something with 16 acres of prime land just up the road a bit from the Boston line at its satellite campus where Mount Ida College used to be. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/25 - 11:59 am

MIT News reports researchers have figured out how to use 3D printers and mud to make "formwork molds" into which contractors can pour concrete at construction sites, replacing the more expensive wood formwork now used. "We found a way to make formwork that is infinitely recyclable," one researcher said. "It’s just dirt."

Rendering of proposed new farmstand and greenhouse at Allandale Farm
By adamg - 1/23/25 - 9:47 am

Allandale Farm, on the Jamaica Plain/Brookline line, this week filed plans to replace its current cramped farmstand with a larger "market barn" open year round and its current small retail greenhouses with one larger greenhouse. Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/25 - 10:55 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports Harbor Point resident and Corcoran Jennison Companies are asking state regulators to reconsider their approval of the $5-billion Dorchester Bay City project, arguing, among other things, the development would lead to even more flooding on the peninsula.

By adamg - 1/15/25 - 2:48 pm

The City Council today unanimously approved a $110-million fund to help finance new housing in the city through low-cost loans for new housing that meets certain city criteria for affordable units, the use of minority- and women-owned subcontractors and climate resiliency. Read more.

Rendering of proposed new apartment building
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 1:09 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a 28-story, 400-unit apartment building at 100-102 Ipswich St. at the Bowker Overpass in the Fenway. Read more.

Rendering of new apartments and rebuilt former Baptist church
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 11:41 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for 49 affordable apartments for senior citizens at 279-283 North Harvard St. in Allston, next to the former Hill Memorial Baptist Church, which will be turned into a " a programmed resident and community space." Read more.

Rendering of proposed Grove Street building
By adamg - 1/10/25 - 10:02 am

A developer who won approval in August for a 30-unit condo project with 11 parking spaces on Grove Street at Washington Street in West Roxbury yesterday asked the Boston Planning Department to let him put in 30 parking spaces instead. Read more.

By adamg - 1/8/25 - 2:27 pm

The City Council today agreed to look at eliminating current parking requirements for residential development across the city as a way of spurring new housing - although some councilors vowed to fight the proposal, warning it would destroy Boston's working class and drive low-income residents out of the city. Read more.

By adamg - 1/8/25 - 11:17 am

In a defeat for Milton and other communities aghast at the idea of the teeming masses moving in, the Supreme Judicial Court today ruled a state regulation that requires towns served by the MBTA to add at least one zone that theoretically could support more housing is entirely constitutional - and that the state can even sue towns that resist. Read more.

By adamg - 1/2/25 - 1:29 pm

Two end-of-year sales along Allston's North Beacon Street show how the local real-estate market has flipped: Life sciences is down, apartments are up. Read more.

By adamg - 12/26/24 - 4:01 pm

A developer that won BPDA approval last year for the broad outlines of a large, nearly 9-acre, multi-building redevelopment along Morrissey Boulevard, from the Star Market to the former home of Channel 56 has brought on a new partner and plans to soon file detailed pans for the first phase of the project: Two buildings with some 750 residential units, ground-floor retail space and underground parking. Read more.

Rendering of proposed new residential units behind rebuilt house
By adamg - 12/17/24 - 4:44 pm

The owners of an unusual "mission style" stucco three-family house sandwiched between two Brighton-style apartment buildings at 1954 Commonwealth Ave. have filed plans to move the building closer to the sidewalk, reconfigure it for six apartments and build a six-story, 20-unit building right behind it. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/24 - 1:42 pm

B'nai B'rith Housing last week paid $3 million for the abandoned Bank of America branch on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square - and its parking lot with entrances on Cohasset and Washington streets - according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.

No lights needed in downtown residence because of how bright the lights are across the street
By adamg - 12/12/24 - 10:01 am

A bleary-eyed resident files a 311 complaint about the seeming spotlights blaring out of a building under construction at 125 Broad St. downtown: Read more.