The Boston neighborhood best-known as a student-heavy redoubt is seeing or will see some major mixed-use construction, including Harvard’s latest campus, Allston Green, and Common Allbright.
The sum can command a wide variety of properties in neighborhoods such as Dorchester, East Boston, and Jamaica Plain, though most won’t be all that big.
Other big development news of the week includes another major project in Allston as well as ones in Somerville and Cambridge—and the top neighborhoods of the 2010s.
Manhattan-based giant Tishman Speyer will develop 14 acres due to host what the university has dubbed its Enterprise Research Campus—and it’s going to be "hyper-social."
Allston, Roxbury, the Seaport, Union Square, East Boston, the West End, and more—region-defining change was a constant in these enclaves during the 2010s.
Other big development news this week includes decisions on selling the Hynes Convention Center and on picking a developer for Harvard’s big Allston parcel.
Other big development news from the week includes a major climate change initiative from Boston, a preliminary plan for a Fort Point parcel, and movement on Harvard’s Allston footprint.
The school expects to pick a final winner for the rights to the 14-acre footprint along Western Avenue before 2020. It’s whittled the contenders to nine.
Kendall Square, downtown Boston, the South End, and others—these are the regional enclaves experiencing the most development-driven change as the calendar clicks over to fall.
The six-building project at Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street in Allston is due to include hundreds of apartments and condos as well as a redone Allston Hall.
The school’s 14 acres along Western Avenue could host hundreds of thousands of square feet of lab, office, and residential space—and be the start of something even bigger.