Bird-infused rendering by Embarc.
Landlord Anwar Faisal's Alpha Management Corp. has filed plans to replace a three-story apartment building at 23-25 North Beacon St. in Allston's Union Square with a six-story, 25-unit apartment building. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-story, 76-unit condo building on Hichborn Street at North Beacon Street in Brighton, the latest residential building proposed by New Balance to go along with its redevelopment of the Guest Street corridor. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say failed to break into Quality Market, 140 N. Beacon St. in Brighton, despite bringing a portable propylene torch with which to try to melt the front-door lock. Read more.
Rendering by J. Garland Enterprises/Moody Noland/MVRDV.
The Community Builders has filed plans with the BPDA to replace the 1940s barracks-like apartment buildings at Faneuil Gardens, off Faneuil and North Beacon streets, with five taller buildings that would have apartments for current residents and 183 apartments for new tenants - as well as a new community center and a tree-lined pedestrian "boulevard." Read more.
The Boston Housing Authority and the Community Builders say they will soon file detailed plans to replace all 258 subsidized units at the Faneuil Gardens development in Brighton with new apartments and to add 212 additional units on top of that. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc.
New Balance's development wing last week filed plans with the BPDA to replace a vacant one-story warehouse at 131 North Beacon St., at Hichborn Street in Brighton, with a six-story, 76-unit condo building. Read more.
IQHQ, which forced musicians out of the Sound Museum space at 155 North Beacon St. so it could put up a three-building life-sciences complex, said today it will give a warehouse just up the street to Boston to create a new home for musician studios. Read more.
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.
California life-sciences developer IQHQ says it will soon file plans with the BPDA to replace Marty's Liquors, which closed recently at 103 North Beacon St. in Allston - just down the street from where it hopes to build a three-building life-sciences complex. Read more.
Shamus captured the remains of the crane this afternoon behind the Model on North Beacon Street in Allston.
Rendering by Ellenzweig.
IQHQ, a California company that specializes in building life-sciences buildings, is proposing to build three more on a site at 155 North Beacon St. in Brighton now occupied by "an older, non-descript building, nearing the end of its useful life" - and the Sound Museum recording studio. Read more.
Part of current lot at corner of Parsons and North Beacon/Birmingham Parkway, across from the IHOP.
A resident of Parsons Street in Brighton is raising funds on GoFundMe to pay for a lawsuit against Zoning Board of Appeal and the owner of a parking lot at 372 North Beacon St. that wants to lease the space to a tow-lot operator being forced out of Emery Road in Allston. Read more.
A developer wants to replace a two-story warehouse at 155 North Beacon St. in Brighton, now home to the Sound Museum rehersal studios across from the Tin Tin Buffet, with a four-building complex of research labs and office space. Read more.
The Boston Cannabis Board this week approved the transformation of Mary Ann's, once Cleveland Circle's premier sticky-floor bar, into a recreational marijuana shop. Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports (last item) that a photographer hired to take "professional photos" of food at Yoma Burmese Restaurant in Allston wouldn't let the owner take a look at the shots unless he got paid first, the owner refused to fork over any dough without a look, but the photographer really wanted his money, so he chased a worker into the kitchen, then tried to steal both money and an iPad before jumping into a getaway car.
Around 11 p.m. at 250 North Beacon St., behind the CVS at the corner of North Beacon and Market. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of his injuries.
Evacuating residents. Photo by BFD.
The city opened the Jackson-Mann School as an emergency shelter after the Boston Fire Department evacuated residents of the ten-story building at 15 N. Beacon St. due to "major" flooding that started on the fifth floor around midnight. Read more.
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