Rendering by Urbanica.
A developer has filed plans for a three-story, three-building condo development at 65-79 Seattle St. that would include things most Boston projects don't get, including plantings that will include nut trees and a "woonerf" - a sort of combination plaza, driveway and shaded area that is popular in the Netherlands and which could ultimately be connected to a local "greenway" path once Harvard finishes its own research campus nearby. Read more.
Rendering by Stack and Co.
The family that owns Down Home Delivery & Catering at 2 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester's Four Corners has filed plans to replace their building with a seven-story apartment building - with ground-floor space for their restaurant to move back into. Read more.
Residents of Redlands Road off Centre Street in West Roxbury are mostly reacting cautiously to a developer's plans to replace the closed Stonehedge nursing home with a 30-unit apartment building. Traffic and parking, of course, are their main concerns. Read more.
Rendering by Animal Arts.
The Animal Rescue League of Boston yesterday filed plans to replace its current two-story South End home with a more modern three-story home right next door. Read more.
The co-founder of Flatiron Energy of Boulder, CO met with Brighton residents yesterday to talk at length about the company's proposal for a two-story, 62,000-square foot building filled with lithium-ion batteries on Electric Avenue - except for the one thing most of them wanted to hear more about: How the company would protect them from the risk of a fire at a large electric facility as close as 40 feet to some residents' property. Read more.
Rendering by Spalding Tougias Architects.
A developer has filed plans to build a five-story, 25-unit condo building at 157 Granite Ave. in Dorchester, steps from the Granite Avenue Bridge over the Neponset River. Read more.
Rendering (with site of current Hatoff's on right) by Choo & Company.
A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and the neighboring Acme auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
In a monochromatic city, the one copper tower stands out, in rendering by Gensler.
A Newton real-estate investment firm today filed plans for a 40-story tower with 400 residential units, 320 hotel rooms and a two-level garage underground garage with 150 parking spaces between Causeway, North Washington and Medford streets - a block that forms the top angle of the Bulfinch Triangle. Read more.
In lieu of birds, Monte French Design Studio's rendering highlights contrails.
A developer has filed plans to replace a four-unit house at 99-105 Addison St. in East Boston with a five-story, 20-unit condo building. Read more.
Rendering by Merge Architects.
A developer has filed plans for a six-story, 59-unit apartment building at 101-109 Boston St., right next door to the prominent Fortress self-storage building with the giant inflatable lock off I-93 near South Bay Mall. Read more.
Bird-enhanced rendering by Khalsa Design (garage shown across the street has since been replaced by a residential building).
A developer has proposed converting an abandoned four-story manufacturing plant at 98-100 Condor St. in East Boston into 35 market-rate apartments. Read more.
A developer says he will soon file detailed plans to convert the Boston Wharf Co. building at Summer and Melcher streets - the one that has long beamed its devotion to "industrial real estate" in bright red neon across Fort Point Channel - into 77 apartments, under the city's pilot tax-break program for that sort of conversion. Read more.
Mayor Wu today announced she's appointed Kairos Shen, current real-estate development professor at MIT and a former top planner at the one-time Boston Redevelopment Authority, to lead the new Boston Planning Department with current planning head Arthur Jemison heading back to Detroit. Read more.
A developer has filed plans to convert four floors at 60 South St., in the Leather District near South Station, for use as Level 2 life-sciences labs. Read more.
Rendering by JGE Architecture and Design.
A trio of developers awarded a series of unused lots owned by the city between Terrace and Parker streets on Mission Hill have filed plans for a four-story condo building with retail space on the ground floor and a community garden out back along Parker Street, next to an "urban wild" that will be formally turned into a city park. Read more.
Rendering by Stantec Architecture.
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Beacon Communities yesterday asked the Boston Planning Department to let them shrink the size of a proposed apartment building at 50 Herald St. in the South End - where the C-Mart is now - from 313 to 115 or 120 apartments. Read more.
Rendering by DREAM Collaborative.
Related Beal and DREAM Development have filed plans for a six-story, 45-unit condo building on what is now a Boston Water and Sewer Commission parking lot on Reed Street between East Lenox and Newcomb streets on the Roxbury/South End line. Read more.
A developer that won approval in 2016 for a 36-unit condo building with 33 parking spaces at 151 Liverpool St. in East Boston says it's still chugging along on the project but that it wants to reduce the amount of parking to just 13 ground-floor spaces - by eliminating a proposed one-level basement garage with an expensive "vehicle elevator." Read more.
Feel the sine wave of surging AC in this rendering by Burns & McDonnell and RODE Architects.
A Boulder, CO company last week filed plans for the two-story, 50-foot-tall big battery building it's proposing for, really, the best street in all of Boston for something like that: Electric Avenue in Brighton. Read more.
Rendering by MicDougal Architects.
Local developer and restauranteur has filed plans to build a seven-story, 30-unit apartment building on what is now a vacant lot at 691-695 Morton Street, next to the Mobil station on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan. Read more.
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