A developer that helped preserve artist studios in an old industrial building on Humphreys Street in Dorchester filed plans today to build a 21-unit condo building nearby in which all the units would be sold to people making no more than 80% to 100% of the Boston area median income - with 18 of them marketed to artists. Read more.
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A developer proposing 13- and 11-story life-sciences buildings on Cambridge Street next to I-93 in Charlestown has added a dedicated 700-foot-long path for pedestrians and bicyclists it says will let them get from Hood Park and the Lost Village to the Sullivan Square T stop with reduced worries about getting squashed like a bug. Read more.
A developer who bought a vacant lot at Dorchester Avenue and B Street last year is asking the BPDA to sign off on plans to build a six-story, 114-unit apartment building there. Read more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.