I was just checking out the new FP3 development, currently under construction in the Fort Point Channel area. Looks as though they have a long way to go, based on the views from their webcams. The project includes constructing a new building next to the two existing...
Mmmm. – click for full image This is the latest rendering of the new “Filene’s Building” multi-use development proposed for Downtown Crossing. You can see the facades of the two existing buildings toward the bottom. The development will include...
So, a developer wants to build a 29-story mixed-use high-rise facing the new Rose Kennedy Parkway, where Chinatown meets the Financial District. That area is zoned for buildings up to 100 feet; as proposed, the building would rise 340 feet. That’s a lot taller....
So, this past week, it was discovered that the $1 billion (that’s billion) NorthPoint development was in trouble. Basically, from what I’ve read in the press, it goes like this: the majority owner of the land on which the project would be built is suing...
Hayward Place, as it exists today, is an empty parking lot (I walked by it earlier today during my nine hour long resident permit parking renewal adventure). Basically, what happened is this: Back in 2001, the city put the property up for sale. The mayor wanted office...
Ouch. There is no bigger development project in the Boston area than Cambridge’s multibillion-dollar NorthPoint. But a nasty legal battle has erupted between NorthPoint’s would-be developers, raising questions about the future of this long-planned...