The Hotel Buckminster’s shuttering underscores just how much the pandemic has dimmed the once burning-bright prospects of the region’s hospitality industry.
Other big development news of the week includes a Kenmore Square hotel advancing, a pivot on Fenway Center, and an effort underway to stop the demolition of the Hurley Building. And sports!
Curbed Comparisons is a regular column that explores what one can rent or buy for a set dollar amount in the Boston area. Next up is $2,000 a month in Boston!
These stark depictions include one for a repurposing of the old Globe HQ to several describing a major expansion of TD Garden to another showing a BU building that will look like a stack of books.
One-third of readers nailed the correct asking price for this 306-square-footer a few blocks south of Berklee College of Music and near the famed Fenway greensward.
This renovation included a gutting of both the kitchen and the bathroom. The condo is near Berklee and the Green Line. Take a look and then try to guess the price.
It would be an understatement to say that Boston is inhospitable hunting ground for homebuyers. It’s full of high prices, bidding wars, and all-cash offers. But there are some relative deals out there.
Newly revealed details call for an eight-story property at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Deerfield Street and a major overhaul of the Citgo sign’s Beacon Street perch as part of another new building.
State transportation officials will close the Boston University Bridge and Comm. Ave. from Packard’s Corner in Allston to Kenmore Square for a major repair project.
The closure is due to repair work on the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, which will center on the demolition and replacement of the westbound side of Comm. Ave.
That asking prices in Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and the Seaport are averaging $1,000/foot-plus should not be all that surprising. But that this is the case now in swathes of downtown well beyond Back Bay should jar a bit.
Related Beal has filed its long-awaited plans for several buildings that it acquired from Boston University in late 2016, including 660 Beacon Street, which the 60-foot-by-60-foot Citgo sign has bestrode since 1965.
There’s a lot going up in and around Boston as 2018 chugs along. Here’s a map of major developments to watch during the next 12 months. Consider it an explainer for the scaffolding and cones you’ll encounter.
Developers Meredith Management, Gerding Edlen, and TH Real Estate plan to officially break ground January 30 on the five-building, 1.1 million-square-foot project in the Kenmore Square area.
Two Boston neighborhoods in particular are especially biker-friendly, earning a score of at least 90 out of a 100 from a website that breaks down what makes it easy to get around on two wheels.
Thanks to a recent deal between the state and two developers, the 4.5-acre project’s first phase—two residential buildings of seven and 13 stories, with 313 apartments and 67,000 square feet of commercial space—could start before the end of the summer.
Initial work could start as soon as September on the 1.3 million-square-foot project in Boston’s Kenmore Square area. It would mark the commencement of one of the city’s most significant new developments in years.
The inns, which would be across the street from each other, would add 763 rooms total to the area. Meanwhile, another developer is planning to redevelop nine buildings nearby.
Residents between the ages of 18 and 34 make up at least 40 percent of the population in six different areas of the city, according to a new analysis. Whether they’ll stick around is another matter.