1270 Commonwealth Ave. rendering
By adamg - 12/12/23 - 12:27 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a six-story, 206-unit apartment building at 1270 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, where the lights currently remain on at what is a long vacant former CVS. Read more.

Rough sketch of the proposed new cancer hospital
By adamg - 12/11/23 - 11:52 am

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center today filed an "institutional master plan" with details, if not architectural renderings, of their proposed 14-story cancer hospital on what is now the site of the Joslin Diabetes Center. Read more.

One Waverly rendering
By adamg - 12/11/23 - 10:46 am

The Cruz Development Corp., which won BPDA approval in 2016 for a 44-unit senior-citizen apartment building at Warren and Waverly streets in Roxbury, is asking for permission to instead put up the building as a 48-unit affordable building open to anybody. Read more.

Rendering of proposed 2 Charlesgate and map showing its location
By adamg - 12/10/23 - 2:11 pm

Scape, now nearing completion on an apartment building on Boylston Street in the Fenway, wants to increase the size of its proposed 2 Charlesgate, near the Bowker Overpass and the turnpike, from 23 to 30 floors - and to eliminate the 75 parking spaces it once planned there. Read more.

Rendering of 22 Freeman St.
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 5:27 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a five-story building with 14 studio apartments on a lot that ends at a wall for the Fields Corner Red Line stop in Dorchester. Read more.

Rendering of proposed Milton Avenue parking lot
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 4:16 pm

When residents said Onyx Management and Development's plans for six condos in three attached buildings at 45 Milton Ave. in Dorchester would lead to parking woes on the street, the company responded with a proposal for nine parking spaces in a backyard that would be taken up almost entirely by a driveway and the spaces, with room for just three or four potted shrubs. Read more.

Rendering of proposed Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 1:30 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a new three-story home for the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center on Old Road between Ellington Street and Michigan Avenue in Dorchester, basically to the rear of its existing facilities on Blue Hill Avenue. Read more.

290 Tremont St. rendering
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 11:35 am

Two non-profit groups have filed formal plans for a 12-story residential building with all the units rented or sold as affordable on what is now a parking lot at 290 Tremont St. in Chinatown. Read more.

Rendering of Dighton Street building
By adamg - 11/29/23 - 2:11 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a four-story, 44-unit apartment building at 25-37 Dighton St., across from the Winship School, in Brighton Center. Read more.

Rendering of proposed Corey Road building and present structure
By adamg - 11/29/23 - 11:23 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by two artists to replace their small cinderblock garage turned studio at 171 Corey Rd., near Washington Street in Brighton, into a five-story building with two floors of artist space and three floors with a total of six residential units. Read more.

McKay Place rendering
By adamg - 11/28/23 - 3:16 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a 41-unit condo building at McKay Place and Maverick Street in Jeffries Point and two apartment building with a total of 41 units at the Orient Heights rotary where Saratoga, Ford and Boardman streets meet. Read more.

Hatoff's Gas on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 11/26/23 - 3:42 pm

The Boston Bulletin reports a developer is looking at tearing down the venerable Hatoff's gas station and the neighboring Acme Auto Body at 3430 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain to put up a residential building with ground-floor retail space. Read more.

The remains of the old Govermment Center Garage - basically just the ground level and a sign advertising 24/7 parking
By adamg - 11/22/23 - 10:10 am

Adam Castiglioni looked down Congress Street yesterday at what's left of a demolition project that has taken seemingly forever (because it has taken forever), forced the shutdown of the Haymarket T stop on countless weekends and left one worker dead.
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Rendering of part of the proposed Reserved Channel development
By adamg - 11/21/23 - 10:28 am

The owner of numerous industrial facilities and warehouses in South Boston and a Toronto developer have filed plans for an eight-building development on parcels along Pappas Way and West 1st Street in South Boston that would include 205 residential units, life-sciences lab space, a supermarket and a rebuilt one-acre park along the Reserved Channel. Read more.

Austin Street rendering
By adamg - 11/18/23 - 1:07 pm

The BPDA board this week designated downtown-based Trinity Financial to turn what are now parking lots between Rutherford Avenue and the I-93 deck south of the Gilmore Bridge into a complex of apartments and condos. Read more.

Alex Matov
By adamg - 11/17/23 - 10:19 am

Alex Matov, whose Garage nightclub on Linden Street in Allston was ordered shut last year after a series of violent incidents, is asking the Boston Licensing Board to let him sell the place's liquor license to a new nightclub operator, who would re-open the club and run it until Matov can gain the financing he needs to replace the building with a new apartment complex - one that might have room for a nightclub of its own. Read more.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 2:22 pm

City housing officials and the local architects' association are asking builders what it would take for them to put up new housing "inspired by triple deckers" on two city-owned vacant lots on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester and River Street in Mattapan. Read more.

By adamg - 11/15/23 - 11:14 am

Brookline.News reports on a rezoning proposal approved by Town Meeting last night. The measure would, among other things, allow four-story residential buildings "as of right." The vote comes a week after voters in neighboring and even leafier Newton voted out city councilors who supported more residential development there.

Expanded convent next to old church
By adamg - 11/14/23 - 2:50 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today deferred a vote on a developer's proposal to turn the former St. Matthew convent, 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester, into 14 condos - two of them affordable - to give the developer and neighbors a couple more months to try to reach agreement on the size of the project, in particular, its roof. Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/23 - 9:29 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports that, in an unusual move, the new owner of a parcel on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester that has long been home to a plumbing-supply business plans to build a new plumbing warehouse there, rather than try to put in apartments or condos.

1334 Dorchester Ave. filings.