development

Menino to BC: Cut the doublespeak

adamg — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:00:34 -0400

Menino tells Banker & Tradesmen that maybe a bit of sophistry is involved when BC says it'll house all its undergrads on campus, then turns around and buys a high-rise apartment building on Comm. Ave. that isn't on campus.

Via Michael Pahre, who notes that BC officials are careful to talk about "university-controlled" housing rather than "on campus."

Boston under development

adamg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:48:54 -0400

The BRA's begun building a searchable map of development projects across the city.

Via John Keith.

Interesting place to put an apartment complex

adamg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:30:20 -0400

357-unit complex proposed for space in old industrial park on Rivermoor Street, which is off the road that runs from Home Depot to Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

The strange connection between Everett and Newburyport

adamg — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:48:22 -0400

And that would be William J. Thibeault, who wants to build a 32-acre development in Everett and then truck the waste to an old town dump in Newburyport, according to Ari Herzog, who's compiling a dossier on Thibeault and his political connections.

A university agrees not to devour a neighborhood

adamg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:00:58 -0400

Suffolk agrees to a "non-expansion zone" on Beacon Hill.

As Harry Mattison (over in Collegelandia, i.e., Allston/Brighton) notes, one interesting part of the deal is that it was between the school and a residents group, rather than the school and the BRA.

The demolition of Filene's makes her sad

adamg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:53:19 -0400

Colleen responds in the only sensible way: She buys some shoes.

No more sub shop at Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street?

adamg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:26:27 -0400

Because you wouldn't think the owner of the Trilogy project would pay $8.5 million for the building just to keep a D'Angelo's there (anybody remember when the place was a Jewish deli?).

They paved paradise and put in a parking lot

adamg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:37:10 -0400

Friends of the Blue Hills continue to fight the request of the owner of the Lantana function hall in Randolph to turn 3 acres of the Blue Hills reservation into a parking lot.

Chinatown's hole in the ground

adamg — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:41:44 -0400

Will Ng reports the hole in the ground at Washington and LaGrange that was supposed to become a 26-story building is still a hole in the ground, but now it's filled with white gravel instead of just dirt.

BC seeks to buy Comm. Ave. apartment building

adamg — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:44:55 -0400

The 16-story, 190-unit building at 2000 Commonwealth Ave., GlobeSt.com reports.

As GlobeSt.com notes, the building was put up by Jerry Rappaport, the same guy who tore down the West End.

It's currently cat friendly.