The approximately 15-acre development along the Massachusetts Turnpike includes all sorts of uses, including the training headquarters for the Bruins and the Celtics.

It also includes the 250,000-square-foot headquarters for athletic-gear kingpin New Balance, which developed Boston Landing (Elkus Manfredi designed it). The project is also due to include a hotel and a performance venue.

While Boston Landing serves or will serve as all of the above, it also created a kind of western gateway for those going in and out of Boston proper, especially along the Pike. It is so prominently placed, in fact, that it includes its own commuter-rail stop, which opened in 2017. The complex itself began opening in 2015.

The 61-story, 742-foot tower—which topped off in August 2018 and started to open in May 2019—is New England’s tallest predominantly non-office building, with some 160 ultra-luxury condos and 215 hotel rooms.

Developed by Carpenter & Company and designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Cambridge Seven Associates, One Dalton is 699 feet at its highest habitable spot. Its very proposal, never mind its completion, highlighted the challenges in building tall in the Boston area.

Years in the making, the Bruce C. Bolling Building opened in early 2015 as a kind of economic-development anchor for Roxbury’s Dudley Square. It not only includes the headquarters of Boston Public Schools, but the Roxbury Innovation Center.

The 215,000-square-foot building—which the city developed and which firms Sasaki and Mecanoo designed out of another building at the site—won plaudits almost immediately for its architecture. The economic-development angle is TBD. 

The Boston area’s very first casino-resort opened in June 2019 to much flowery fanfare, filling the site of an old chemical-processing plant in Everett.

The complex revolves around a 210,000-square-foot casino—featuring 3,158 slot machines and 231 table games—but there are plenty of other bells and whistles, including 15 eateries and a 671-room hotel as well as expansive outdoor space.

Developed by Las Vegas-based Wynn, the whole thing might end up as the nexus of an entirely new “entertainment district” on the Mystic.

The developers behind the 1.5 million-square-foot project on and around TD Garden—and on the site of the former Boston Garden—opened the complex’s first two phases by the fall of 2019.

It’s got a ton of moving parts and came in conjunction with a major revamp of TD Garden itself. The Hub on Causeway includes a Star Market, a 15-screen ArcLight cinema, a 1,500-seat concert venue, a 272-room hotel, a 31-story office tower with around 630,000 square feet, and a 38-story apartment tower with some 440 (very popular) units.

Delaware North, TD Garden’s owner, and Boston Properties are the developers on the still-unfolding Hub on Causeway—the third phase is expected in 2021—and Gensler and Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates are the architects.

The five-building redevelopment of the old Boston Herald site started opening in early 2015. It includes or is due to include 315 apartments, 153 condos, and a 200-room AC Hotel by Marriott as well as retail that includes a Whole Foods. 

The project from developer National Development has been the most prominent in terms of scope and ambition in the South End, one of the Boston area’s busiest this decade in terms of development. 

This multi-building project is notable not only for its scope—which includes Boston’s tallest new office building since the mid-1980s and a 480-foot residential building that topped off in August 2019—but for where it’s going.

For Bulfinch Crossing is replacing much of the behemoth-like Government Center Garage, highlighting the slow fade of conventional parking garages and parking norms in downtown Boston.

In the end, Bulfinch Crossing is due to have more than 1 million square feet of office space, more than 800 residential units, and a pedestrian plaza. The lead developer is the HYM Investment Group LLC.

This 33-acre project spans much of the land between Summer Street and Northern Boulevard in the Seaport District, filling in most of the remaining space in that neighborhood. Much of Seaport Square is already under construction or near completion.

That includes 7.6 million square feet of new development, which in turn includes 3 million square feet of lab and office space, three hotels, and 3 million square feet of residential space encompassing 3,200 units. Seaport Square is also due to include 9 acres of public open space.

This rendering from lead developer WS Development shows the under-construction 111 Harbor Way, a 525,000-square-foot office-retail component.