Building Expectations

Here's an idea for dealing with Boston's spiraling housing costs: "a 14-story, block-long $225 million building on a prime downtown parcel near TD Garden with 239 apartments, each priced at rents well below the going market rates. A little more than half of the units would be so-called workforce housing for middle-income tenants, with the rest aimed at low-income residents." The trick involves a bevy of tax breaks and other financial alchemy, however. Stay tuned. [Globe]