Rendering by Context of the view from Centre Street.
A Medfield developer yesterday filed plans to replace a vacant nursing home at 5 Redlands Rd. in West Roxbury with a three-story, 30-unit apartment building with 45 underground parking spaces - and real spaces, not some complex mechanical stacker system. Read more.
Drone-view rendering by Stantec Architecture and Engineering.
A developer has filed plans to replace a building housing radio stations and an antenna tower on Leo Birmingham Parkway across from Lincoln Street in Brighton with an eight-story, 338-unit apartment building. Read more.
Two non-profit groups have filed plans to convert and modernize a six-story lodging house at 20 Charlesgate West in the Fenway into an 86-unit apartment building, with all the units renting at "affordable" rates below what the city normally considers "affordable." Read more.
A Worcester developer and a local architecture firm say they will soon file detailed plans for replacing the shuttered Dorchester Trust at 555-559 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a two-story Boston Public Library branch and 33 affordable condos. Read more.
Procter & Gamble told the city yesterday it will soon file detailed plans for turning World Shaving Headquarters along Fort Point Channel into a new neighborhood as it moves its manufacturing to Andover over the next few years. Read more.
Rendering by Sousa Design Architects.
The owner of the Playwright bar on East Broadway in South Boston has filed plans to replace a neighboring building with a four-story 12-unit apartment building. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects of new building and old church.
The Allston Brighton Community Development Corp. today filed plans to build a four-story, 49-unit apartment building on North Harvard Street at Coolidge Road in Allston, next to the former Hill Memorial Baptist Church, which will be turned into a " a programmed resident and community space." Read more.
The Madison Park Development Corp. says it will soon file detailed plans for a six-story, 54-unit apartment building and a 9-unit condo building on a 3/4-acre lot at 639 Warren St. at Crawford Street in Roxbury's Grove Hall. Read more.
The Globe reports that Arthur Jemison, who came to Boston two years ago to help move the semi-autonomous Boston Planning and Development Agency into the Boston Planning Department, told his staff today he'll be resigning in September to return to Michigan.
Rendering of the Mass. Ave. side by RODE Architects.
A local developer has proposed a six-story, 45-unit residential building at 1274 Massachusetts Ave. that would also have an entrance on Boston Street, not far from the Giant Pear and the mega-intersection of Edward Everett Square. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc.
A Newton developer has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to raze a single-family house at 434 Washington St. in Brighton Center and replace it with a four-story building with 18 residential units and ground-floor commercial space. Read more.
Rendering by McKay Architects.
A Burlington developer has proposed replacing a "run down" single-family house at 140 Wachusett St. in Jamaica Plain, between the Boston Teachers Union and Young Achievers Schools, with a 28-unit apartment building with 20 parking spaces. Read more.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute this week filed a "institutional master plan" for its proposed 14-story hospital where the Joslin Diabetes Center now sits. The 10-year development plan does not have detailed renderings of the new hospital - to be built as part of a new long-term agreement with Beth Israel Medical Center - but it does call for construction of new pedestrian bridges, including one that would span Brookline Avenue from the new building to Dana-Farber's current facilities. Read more.
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