Alexandra Project Hopes to Switch Back to Hotel
Will the third time be the charm for a development team’s efforts to redevelop the old Hotel Alexandra property in Boston?
Will the third time be the charm for a development team’s efforts to redevelop the old Hotel Alexandra property in Boston?
A new arts center, which incorporates elements of the historic building it’s replacing, will be a hub for the Boston Latinx community’s cultural empowerment.
In both urban and suburban environments, dynamic neighborhoods are a major new draw in the race for talent. This shift has prompted the evolution of Boston’s most historic neighborhoods, like the South End.
Developers who had planned to build a 12-story hotel tower behind a restored historic hotel facade near Boston’s South End are asking city officials if they can convert the building into condominiums.
Studio Enee and Ann Beha Architects will design South End-based community development corporation Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción’s new community arts center at 85 West Newton St.
In addition to approving landmark projects in Allston and Kenmore Square, the Boston Planning & Development Agency board approved three multifamily projects, including a controversial condominium development on the site of a financially struggling community center, at its Thurdsay meeting.
Boston-based developer Abbey Group began demolition of the former Boston Flower Exchange property this morning, as it prepares the 5.6-acre South End site for a four-building, 1.6 million-square-foot office and lab development.
Using its ability to offer low-cost, fixed-rate, long-term financing, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership has closed on a $50 million loan to community development corporation Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) to preserve the affordability of Victoria Apartments.
A new design fad is sweeping Boston’s architecture firms as they design a new slate of towers set to rise across the city. But where did it come from?
A complex 1.3 million-square-foot office and residential development next to the MBTA’s Back Bay Station could break ground as soon as late winter.
Developers of two new condo projects in South End and Jamaica Plain have announced prices and begun presales in preparation for their completion in 2020.
As the Fenway, Chinatown and South End continue to face gentrification and housing displacement pressures, contributions from four private developers could deliver more than 700 new income-restricted housing units in coming years.
Sales at the brand-new Pier 4 luxury complex aren’t letting up but already Boston real estate brokerage Advisors Living has landed the contract to exclusively market and sell a new luxury development, this time in the South End.
One of the largest multifamily projects to break ground in Boston’s South End in recent years is marketing units in its first apartment building which is scheduled to open next spring.
The former Alexandra Hotel property has been acquired by developers planning a 150-room hotel.
Publicly-owned properties are a lucrative but challenging real estate frontier in Greater Boston, as developers pursue centrally located sites such as MBTA stations, postal facilities and air rights parcels above the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Developer Related Beal has begun marketing 101 condominiums at The Quinn, its redevelopment of the former Quinzani’s Bakery site in Boston’s South End.
Sebastian Colella remembers when it was easy to distinguish the difference between “boutique” hotels and “traditional” hotels run by large hospitality companies.
As projects in Somerville, East Boston, Allston-Brighton and South End move forward, developers of large vacant commercial properties in Newton and Woburn are laying out plans for mixed-use projects totaling over 3 million square feet.
Architect Vickie Alani’s specialties in the multifamily and hospitality sectors are starting to blur together, as hotel and housing developers borrow each others’ design trends.