Thinking Big on the Blue Line
A recent wave of high-end housing developments in Revere has shifted the conversation to production of affordable and workforce housing, potentially including several large public parcels near transit.
Seeking Stabilization in Revere’s Shirley Ave. Corridor
After beginning her career as a landscape architect in St. Louis, Laura Christopher is focusing on a different type of Gateway City in her new role for MassDevelopment’s transformative development initiative.
Revere Asks Judge to Put Beach Tower into Receivership
Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo is asking a judge to put a 1986 apartment tower overlooking Revere Beach into receivership, whose landlord has allegedly failed to help its tenants relocate after a high-profile fire.
Revere Tank Farm-for-Logistics Swap OK’d
The pending redevelopment of a huge Exxon Mobile tank farm in Everett isn’t the only big reimagining of local fossil fuel infrastructure in the pipeline.
Blue Line Up For Two Rounds of Repairs
Four Blue Line stops in East Boston and Revere will go offline to riders for two and a half weeks in May, adding to a previously delayed 14-day shutdown on the line’s other end designed to accelerate repair work, officials announced Monday.
Hot Property: Eliot on Ocean
One of the first in a growing line of new, transit-oriented rental complexes along Revere Beach has sold again.
291 Units Proposed in Revere Near Lynn Projects
Boston developer Redgate Capital Partners is proposing Revere’s latest large multifamily development: a 291-unit project just across the water from several proposed luxury developments in Lynn.
Revere Officials OK 360-Unit Beachfront Project
Revere planning officials have green-lit another large apartment complex overlooking Revere Beach, this time far to the north of the MBTA’s Wonderland Blue Line and bus station.
Revere Rides Wave of Development
In recent years, Revere has seen the construction of thousands of new apartment units and the opening of new hotels, restaurants and shops. But the activity has been so intense and rapid that many are concerned that it may one day squeeze out many of its largely immigrant and working-class residents.
Suffolk Downs’ First Revere Phase OK’d
Developer HYM has received site plan approvals from Revere officials to build the four buildings that make up the project’s first Revere phase.
State Targets Prevention Teams on COVID Hot Spots
State field teams will fan out across five communities that have recorded persistent dangerously-high transmission rates for COVID-19 as the state seeks to stamp out the disease.
State Issues Map of High COVID-19 Infection Rates
Gov. Charlie Baker launched a new colored-coded system to label cities and towns based of the severity of their COVID-19 infection rates on Tuesday, initiating a targeted approach to virus containment that he said should help inform and guide the state, communities and their residents in making decisions about how to contain the coronavirus’s spread.
Free Virus Testing Program Expanding to 8 More Communities
Massachusetts is expanding its free coronavirus testing program to eight additional communities where positive test rates are above the statewide average at the same time the number of tests being conducted is dropping.
Amazon Facility in former Necco Factory Opens
Amazon has opened a delivery center in a former candy factory famous for making Sweethearts and other classic confections.
Encore Casino Places 3,000 Employees on Furlough
Encore Boston Harbor, the $2.6 billion resort casino in Everett, said Monday that it is placing about 3,000 of its employees on an indefinite furlough as it prepares to reopen under guidelines that limit the resort’s occupancy.
Renters Reluctant to Pull Up Stakes
Owners of new apartment buildings in the Boston area are facing unprecedented times trying to fill units amid the coronavirus outbreak and economic downturn that’s left many would-be tenants wary of moving into unfamiliar and oftentimes more expensive living quarters.
When Bad Housing Policy Turns Deadly
A handful of Greater Boston communities have become ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts, thanks in part to the overcrowded conditions forced by too-high rent and too few rental units.
1 in 4 Area Families with Children Pay Half their Income for Housing
Nearly one out of every four families with children in 13 Greater Boston communities pay more than half their income for housing, while nearly 1 in 10 live in overcrowded conditions with more than two people per bedroom, a new report says.
Our Most Popular CRE Stories of 2019
Today caps off another momentous year in Massachusetts’ commercial real estate landscape, with massive new projects rising across downtown and in once-unremarkable neighborhoods. Here are our five most popular commercial real estate stories from 2019.
The Year in Commercial Real Estate
From a booming life science industry spreading further out from East Cambridge to new multifamily housing models and an e-commerce-fueled explosion in interest in distribution facilities, here’s what drove demand in 2019.
