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By adamg - 9/19/23 - 1:09 pm
Proposed new life-sciences tower on Boylston Street

Rendering by Elkus Manfredi from kitty corner across Boylston Street.

The company that wants to replace the Star Market and the defunct gas station next to it on Boylston Street in the Fenway with a life-sciences building today filed modified plans that call for a new stand-alone Boston Public Library on the 2 1/2-acre site. Read more.

By adamg - 9/19/23 - 12:38 pm

The owner of the Forbes Building, 539-551 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, says he will soon submit detailed plans to the BPDA to renovate the building and to rent 143 of the 147 units as affordable. Read more.

By adamg - 9/18/23 - 9:44 am
Rendering of Dorchester Bay City

New development in the front, UMass and JFK Library in the back. Rendering by Stantec.

The Dorchester Reporter reports the BPDA last week approved the 36-acre Dorchester Bay City project, which will include 1,950 apartments and enough offices, labs and stores to employ up to 17,000 people. Read more.

By adamg - 9/15/23 - 12:22 pm
22-24 Pratt Street rendering

Drone's-eye view by Stantec Architecture.

Two developers this week filed plans to further the transformation of Allston's GAP from a warren of student-filled apartments and industrial buildings into a collection of taller residential buildings and towers, with plans for a 322-unit apartment building with a 16-floor wing off Pratt Street, next to the former Conrail train yard. Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/23 - 2:03 pm
Rendering of 141 Addison St. building

Rendering on one of those weird sunshower days by Zephyr Architects.

A developer who's built in East Boston before has filed plans for a four-story, 20-unit condo building to replace the current warehouse and parking lot at 141 Addison St., off Saratoga Street, in East Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 10:15 am

Two non-profit groups say they will soon file detailed plans to rebuild the shuttered Constitution Inn at 150 3rd Ave. in the Charlestown Navy Yard into an affordable apartment building, with roughly half the units aimed at people making between $30,000 and $83,000 and the other half targeted at "households headed by women or by veterans" who were previously homeless. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 9:30 am

The owners of the former Roxbury Boy's Club at 10 Malcolm X Blvd. in Roxbury say they will soon file plans to add two buildings to the site with a total of 140 new residential units. Read more.

By adamg - 8/29/23 - 1:48 pm

A developer has proposed replacing a printing company and its parking lot at 49-51 D St. in South Boston with a nine-story, 75-unit residential building with ground-floor commercial space. Read more.

By adamg - 8/21/23 - 8:53 pm
Rendering of proposed 81 Hancock St.

Rendering with lens flare by Vanko Studio.

Ed. note: Story updated to note the current building will not be torn down.

The owner of the building that now houses the Fernandez IV Liquors, a pizza place and a laundromat on Hancock Street at Trull Street in Dorchester has proposed adding three floors of apartments, with the liquor store and the laundromat remaining during construction. Read more.

By adamg - 8/2/23 - 11:26 am
Rendering of proposed 24-34 Notre Dame St. building

Rendering by KDI.

A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a "dilapidated house " and some vacant land at 24-34 Notre St. in Roxbury with a five-story, 26-unit condo building. Read more.

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 8:45 am
Rendering of proposed condos at 156 Wellington Hill St.

Rendering by Context.

A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to reuse part of the former Mount Sinai Baptist Church at Wellington Hill Street and Greendale Road at Morton Street in Mattapan to create a five-story, 27-unit condo building. Read more.

By adamg - 7/3/23 - 10:13 am
Rendering of proposed 118 B St.

Rendering by Timothy Johnson Architect.

A South Boston developer has proposed replacing the Hinds & Coon tool company at 118 B St., off West 3rd Street, with a five-story, 37-unit apartment building. Read more.

By adamg - 6/6/23 - 9:42 am
Rendering of proposed Holocaust museum on Tremont Street

Rendering by Schwartz/Silver Architects.

The Holocaust Legacy Foundation yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for the six-story Holocaust Museum and Educational Center she hopes to build at 125 Tremont St., across from the Park Street Church downtown. Read more.

By adamg - 5/21/23 - 10:16 am

A Florida developer says it will soon file plans to replace what it calls a "little used commercial building at 250 Everett St. in Allston with a six-story, 250-unit apartment building with about 117 parking spaces in an underground garage. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 11:24 pm

Holland Properties said today it will soon file plans to convert the Poor Clare Nuns monastery next to the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain into apartments and community uses - and to construct a new condo building behind the monastery. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 10:31 am

Most developers don't need to be told twice, but the BPDA has yet again rejected a proposal by a Dallas firm to construct a nine-building, 270-unit apartment complex on what is now a heavily wooded hillside on American Legion Highway next to the Stop & Shop strip mall. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 11:59 am
Rendering of proposed Dighton Street building

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.

By adamg - 5/11/23 - 10:09 pm

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.

By adamg - 4/30/23 - 9:30 pm

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.

By adamg - 4/20/23 - 3:00 pm
Rendering of proposed residential building at 1188 Bennington St.

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.

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