Select Page BPDA OKs 88 Black Falcon Expansion, Allston-Brighton Bus Lanes By Steve Adams | Banker & Tradesman Staff | May 14, 2021 | Reprints | Print
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A 327,000-square-foot addition to the 88 Black Falcon complex will market space to life science companies while preserving traditional industrial tenants such as seafood companies in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park.
Boston Planning & Development Agency directors approved a 4-story addition to a former U.S. Army repair facility at the eastern tip of the Seaport District. The Davis Cos. of Boston leases the property from Massport.
The project is one of the first to take advantage of new development rules allowing higher-renting uses such as offices and labs on the upper floors of the buildings in the industrial park.
Cameron Sperance Boston.com correspondent May 6, 2021 6:48 am
The death of Boston’s urban housing market during the pandemic may have been greatly exaggerated.
Some buyers are ditching the city for the suburbs, many news stories allege, and they aren’t wrong. Condo prices and sales in some urban core neighborhoods like Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and the South End softened over the first quarter, but they shot up in areas farther out, according to Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Warren Residential’s first-quarter condo report for the city.
The average condo sales price in East Boston, $699,710, was up more than 24 percent since the end of 2020. Homes are also moving a lot quicker, as listings spent 22 fewer days on the market on average in the neighborhood. Roslindale’s average condo sales price last quarter, $567,008, was up nearly 14 percent. Condo prices in Roxbury shot up nearly 59 percent last quarter, but the number of transactions was small: Fifteen condos sol
Big-name developers vying to build on parcel just south of downtown
By Tim Logan Globe Staff,Updated April 22, 2021, 2 hours ago
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State transportation officials said Thursday that they have received six proposals from developers to build on a 1.4 acre parcel on Kneeland Street that was once used as part of the Big Dig. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo)David L. Ryan
A half-dozen big-name developers are vying for the rights to build on a key state-owned site on the southern edge of downtown Boston.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said Thursday that it received six bids for a 1.3-acre property on Kneeland Street known as Parcel 25, which sits atop the exit from the Tip OâNeill Tunnel for the southbound lanes of Interstate 93 leaving downtown. MassDOT is offering a 99-year lease for the site, which is left over from the Big Dig, and the opportunity drew interest from a range of prominent developers, most offering to build housing or lab space ther
Design firm Sasaki moving downtown
Earlier this year, the company said it was leaving its longtime headquarters in Watertown.
By Tim Logan Globe Staff,Updated March 12, 2021, 5:07 p.m.
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There arenât many companies moving into downtown Boston these days.
But Sasaki is.
The global design firm, long headquartered in Watertown, said Friday that it has signed a 16-year lease for a new home at 110 Chauncy St., an eight-story office building on the border of Downtown Crossing and Chinatown.
Itâs a partnership with MC Real Estate Partners, which closed Friday on a deal to buy 110 Chauncy for $27.8 million, according to Suffolk County property records. Sasaki will help redesign the 120-year-old building and occupy its 64,000 square feet.
Ways and Means Chairman Aaron Michlewitz Endorses Jon Santiago for Mayor of Boston
Just over a week after Jon Santiago launched his campaign, State Representative Aaron Michlewitz from the North End has endorsed Jon Santiago for Mayor of Boston.
“I am proud to endorse Jon Santiago for Mayor of Boston. Our city stands on the precipice of a new era of leadership and I know Jon’s experience as a doctor, a veteran, a Peace Corps volunteer, and as a state representative make him the most qualified to lead us into that new era,” said Representative Michlewitz. “He will help us recover as a city and region.”