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New development projects approved in the city of Boston this month will create about 577 new homes, including 251 considered affordable. At the Boston Planning and Development Agency Board’s ...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority, the BPDA’s legal name, was created in 1957 and has the legal power to “buy and sell property, acquire property through eminent domain and grant tax concession to ...
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (“BPDA”) has adopted a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy (“DEI”) that asks developers of large projects (adding/constructing more than ...
Boston is one step closer to making a major overhaul of its long-maligned development review process after Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 unveiled a draft modernization plan last week.
Mayor Wu’s big plans for Boston’s development agency have run up against an uncertain economy. But she’s pushing ahead. Some in real estate world warn now is not the time to overhaul the ...
In November 2023, the Boston Zoning Commission adopted Article 79 of the Boston Zoning Code, codifying for the first time long-studied changes to Boston’s Inclusionary Development Policy (IDP ...
Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft could be part of a succession plan to inherit ownership of the New England Revolution, according to a 2015 legal document that’s recently come to light, a ...
Development projects approved in Boston this month include a 236-unit residential building, two projects to convert office space to apartments and a 640,000-square-foot life science complex.
The biggest public housing development in Boston is officially under construction for a massive redevelopment after nearly 90 years. “When this was built, the federal government didn’t really ...
Boston is facing a financing gap that is handcuffing its ability to build out of a housing crisis. There are 30,000 multifamily units in the city that have been approved but have yet to be ...