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By mid-2018, there were a handful of bike-share options in the Boston area and maybe more on the way. As of early 2020, there’s really only one. Here are the details.
Boston and Cambridge were the two priciest municipalities to rent at the start of October, a Zumper report said. No surprise there. But what’s with the steep jumps in Revere and Everett?
This week’s Critical Mass. also includes a Quincy development off the Red Line, an Orange Line connection for Encore Boston Harbor, and downtown Boston’s first automated parking garage.
Looking for a deal on an apartment in the Boston region? Steer clear of Cambridge. As for Boston proper and elsewhere, here are the best bets, according to one report.
Casino-resort operator Wynn Resorts, which already owns 11 additional acres around its newly opened complex, envisions a vast expanse of attractions, its CEO says.
Everett’s 33-acre casino-resort opens June 23 with 3,158 slot machines, 231 table games, and 800 trees more than 15 feet tall—to name just a few vital numbers.
The home prices in Boston’s northern neighbor are some of the more reasonable in the region. Thus, each of these listings in the tour is under $530,000.
California-based LimeBike has added the pedal-assist vehicles to its fleets in Medford, Melrose, Milton, Needham, Revere, and Waltham. They’re already in Bedford, Belmont, Chelsea, Everett, and Winthrop.
The riverwalk on the banks of the Mystic in Everett will also include 50,000-plus flowering plants and a type of synthetic grass unique to the project’s developer, Wynn Resorts of Las Vegas.
Sometimes it’s just not possible to rent an apartment in Boston proper. But there are plenty of more affordable options just beyond Boston’s borders, including in its northern neighbors such as Revere and Chelsea.
The yacht-like vessels for the 20-minute trips will be 41 feet long and able to accommodate 40 riders each; and each will contain "a computerized gyro stabilizer for smooth sailing in choppy condition."
The company had met with rivals about selling the under-construction project, but the prices offered weren’t right. Yet, should Wynn lose its Massachusetts gaming license, all bets are off and a distressed sale likely.
California startups LimeBike and Spin plan to deploy about 2,000 dockless bikes in 15 municipalities region-wide by this summer. Here’s how much they’ll cost and other details.
Wynn Resorts, the Vegas firm behind the 3 million-square-foot casino-resort under construction in Everett, is pretty much trying to move on completely in Massachusetts from its disgraced founder and former leader.
But it might be too late: The Vegas firm—whose namesake, chairman, and CEO resigned earlier this year amid sexual assault allegations—has already sunk $1 billion-plus into the project.
State officials have unveiled plans for a 780-foot run from the future Wynn Boston Harbor casino-resort in Everett to the still-unfolding Assembly Row neighborhood in Somerville.
"Asking price can be seen as a measure of the long-term prospects of a neighborhood," NeighborhoodX research director Constantine Valhouli says. "Asking rent can be seen as a reflection of what the neighborhood is like right now."
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission could revoke Wynn Resorts’ license to operate a 3 million-square-foot casino that it is building near Boston because of numerous sexual assault and harassment allegations against the company’s chief executive and chairman.
The average asking price for market-rate homes in Medford as of January 29 was $388 a square foot. That makes the city more expensive than Chelsea, Malden, and Everett.