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What $2,600 rents around Boston now
Uncover what the sum commands in East Boston, the South End, Jamaica Plain, and elsewhere.
Boston warns developers on continuing construction
Other major development news of the week includes the potential redevelopment of a famed Boston hotel.
The Boston hotel market continues to reel from coronavirus
The Hotel Buckminster’s shuttering underscores just how much the pandemic has dimmed the once burning-bright prospects of the region’s hospitality industry.
What $400,000 buys in Boston now
Discover what the sum commands in enclaves such as Brighton, Mission Hill, South Boston, and Hyde Park.
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What $775,000 buys in Boston now
Discover how far the sum goes in South Boston, Dorchester, Fenway, and elsewhere.
Martin Luther King Jr. in the Boston area
Before he was a civil rights pioneer and Nobel laureate, King was but a lowly grad student at Boston University.
Boston might plunk apartments atop library branches
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!
Triangular Kenmore hotel advances
The 29-story, 391-room boutique will also mean alterations to the area’s streets and open spaces.
BU’s stack-of-books building officially underway
The 19-story Commonwealth Avenue project will replace a surface parking lot and be especially environmentally sustainable.
What $875,000 buys around Boston now
Compare and contrast these listings in Fort Point, the South End, East Boston, and elsewhere. Which one would you buy?
What $2,500 rents around Boston now
These newer listings include apartments in East Boston, Kenmore, Fenway, and Dorchester.
City green-lights Boston University’s stack-of-books building
Construction on the 19-story, 305-foot building could start in the spring of 2020.
What $2,000 a month rents around Boston now
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!
Check out the restoration of Boston University’s Castle
The Tudor revival dating from 1915 houses the school’s alumni center. Work included buffing the exterior and expanding the in-house pub.
Kenmore Square’s tallest tower would stretch to nearly 300 feet under new plan
The development—aimed at creating a luxury hotel—would also rework driving, biking, and walking in the area.
The 6 most interesting Boston real estate renderings of 2018
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.
7 neighborhoods in the Boston area that everyone should be watching
Trying to gauge the region’s built future? Follow enclaves such as Allston, Eastie, and the South End.
Boston’s Citgo sign inches toward controversial landmark status
It’s up to Mayor Marty Walsh and the City Council now.
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6 open houses in the lineup this weekend in Fenway-Kenmore
Prices along this tour in Fenway Park’s stomping grounds range from $599,000 to $3,954,200.
Boston University’s tallest building will resemble a stack of books
And that’s no coincidence: The 19-story tower will serve as the school’s data sciences hub.
Boston University tower would replace parking lot in Kenmore Square
The 19-story, 350,000-square-foot building for the university’s data science headquarters would be the neighborhood’s latest new project.
Big reveal: A renovated studio in Fenway-Kenmore
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.
How much for a renovated studio in Fenway-Kenmore?
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.
Fenway-Kenmore asking prices now averaging more than $1,200 a square foot
A lot of it has to do with the newish Pierce Boston condo tower on Brookline Avenue.
What $550,000 buys around Boston right now
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.
Boston’s most famous sign would get a new home in the same location under fresh Kenmore Square plans
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.
Here’s when Commonwealth Avenue will be closed to traffic this summer
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.
A whole stretch of Commonwealth Avenue will be closed to traffic 15-plus days this summer
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.
Kenmore Square hotels would add 677 rooms to changing neighborhood
One of the inns would be of the micro sort, a 24-story building with 382 smaller-than-usual rooms with 8,500 square feet of retail and rooftop space.
7 Boston-area neighborhoods everyone should be watching this spring
Major projects are driving a lot of change in different areas of the Boston region—in some more than others.
The 8 Boston neighborhoods where housing prices average more than $1,000 a square foot
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.
Citgo sign will shine on as part of major Kenmore Square redevelopment
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.
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18 Boston-area developments to watch in 2018, mapped
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.
Fenway Center sets official groundbreaking for late January
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.
Boston’s 10 most bikable neighborhoods, explained
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.
Here comes the five-building Fenway Center
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.
Five-building Fenway Center could start construction this 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.
Busy times beneath the Citgo sign: New hotels, nine-building revamp
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.
Millennials are all over these 6 Boston neighborhoods
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.