A couple months ago, Boston city councilors unanimously approved a new regulation that limited to four the number of students allowed to rent any apartment in Boston. (So, even if an apartment has five, six, or twelve bedrooms, only four students can live there.)
The new law was met with joy from neighbors who no [...]

Thomas M Menino, has done a lot to help the lower- and middle-class in the city during the 15 years he has been mayor (and the four months he was “acting” mayor).
His staff does him no favors, then, when they say things that are blatantly untrue; or, at the very least, misleading.
From yesterday’s Boston Globe:
The [...]

A column written by me appears in this week’s South End News.
Defeated Columbus Center is an orphan with a thousand fathers
An opportunity to stitch back together a deep tear in the urban fabric was lost with the failed Columbus Center project, the proposed $800 million, mixed-use complex to be built on decks constructed over the [...]

I noticed an expired listing in MLSPIN today, #70742963.
It is a five-bedroom condo on Park Drive, conveniently located near Emmanuel, Simmons, Wheelock, Northeastern, BU, MassArt, SMFA, Mass College of Pharmacy, and Wentworth, among others. It was listed at $585,000.
Not that it matters.
With five bedrooms, it’s too large for a group of students to rent.
The [...]

Tom Keane lives on Beacon Hill. He writes a column in the Boston Globe Magazine. This week he talks about a developer’s proposal to tear down the Government Center garage, replacing it with … well, something. See, “neighbors”, and I use that term loosely, have opinions wide and varied about what should [...]

According to Banker & Tradesman:
A plan to move a Boston performing arts high school from the Fenway to the Theatre District could give the Red Sox a chance to expand their real estate holdings around Fenway Park.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino wants to build a new Boston Arts Academy on a city-owned parking lot wedged [...]