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.
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.
Critical Mass. is a roundup of the most notable development news in the Boston area. This week, it tackles projects and movement in Dorchester, East Boston, Watertown, and elsewhere.
Curbed Comparisons is a weekly column that explores what one can rent or buy for a set dollar amount in the Boston area. Is one woman’s studio another woman’s townhouse? Let’s find out!
It’s looking for a new home now that a Watertown development has disrupted its old one. And the scoreboard’s owner is teasing the possibility of a sale.
That 1 million-square-foot-plus development is due to include 425 apartments; a 150-room Hampton by Hilton; 250,000 square feet of shops and restaurants, which Roche Bros. will anchor; and a Majestic Cinema.
This weekend’s tour takes us west of Boston, where homes in this town of about 35,000 run the whole range of styles, including Victorians, capes, colonials, and ranches.
The nine-room, 2,614-square-foot shingled gambrel on Marion Road is the product of a major overhaul that its owners undertook after buying the circa-1898 pile in 2004.
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.
The region’s building boom includes hotels. And some of these planned projects are more portentous than others, whether because of their locations or the complexes they will be a part of—or both.
The region is rife with gobsmacking listings of late, few more memorable than those properties born from recent renovations.Here are five in particular worth checking out.
The 12-room, 3,170-square-foot pile does have certain draws regardless of the needed work. There’s that size, for one thing, which includes four levels of living space and the possibility for seven bedrooms.
The 5,600-square-foot 30 Lincoln Street is the city’s most expensive listing. The tag not only scores a buyer the 4,900-square-foot main house, but a separate 700-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment.
The house dates from 1901, and includes stately touches such as a wraparound porch and an ornate wooden balustrade along the front staircase. There are also two fireplaces and room for rooms such as a library and a wine cellar.
Developers are rolling out a more than 1 million-square-foot expansion and redevelopment of the Arsenal Mall site. It’s already slated to include hundreds of new apartments and lots of fresh retail.
It’s retailing now for under $1,000,000. Go a few miles eastward and forget it: In Cambridge, we might be talking about $2M, same with a jump over the river into Boston.
The Watertown Planning Board voted unanimously to approve the more than 1 million-square-foot redevelopment and expansion of the Arsenal Mall site. The O.K. clears the way for one of the Boston region’s biggest developments to start construction this year.
It’s Curbed Cup 2016 time! Let’s pick the year’s No. 1 neighborhood. First up: Last year’s Curbed Cup champ, Assembly Row, vs. a busy, busy slice of Watertown. Polls open 24 hours.
The redevelopment and expansion of Arsenal Mall is due to include more than 400 market-rate apartments, a ginormous wine store, and lots of movie theaters.
The 4-BR is asking $1,025,000—which is a lot, yes, but it pencils out to a relatively tame $337 and change per square foot. That could be considered a bargain by Boston-area standards.
It’s one of the highest hurdles for homeownership in the region, if not the highest: the downpayment. What does 20 percent of a house's asking price run you on average in Arlington, Belmont, Malden, Medford, and elsewhere?
If you're looking for a suburban reprieve close to urban amenities, look no further than Watertown. This week's open house tour offers a range of single-families and condos with space to spare. Remember, it's free to look.
The smallest condos for sale in Quincy, Waltham, and Watertown are asking between $368 and $690 a square foot, according to a new analysis. That makes them cheaper than similarly sized condos in other Boston neighbors such as Arlington and Malden.
This weekend, check out the vast range of housing stock in Watertown. Each one is chock full of character, and all are priced at well under $900,000. Remember, it's free to look.
The new owners of the 11-room, 4,689-square-foot Victorian at 57 Russell Avenue described it as a "wreck" when they bought it way back in 1998. Then along came "This Old House" and the property was epicly reborn.