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New Downtown Crossing tower could come without parking
Other big development news of the week includes major projects for Dorchester and Newton as well as more change in Cambridge’s Central Square.
Newton project with 14 buildings advances following vote
The development with 800 apartments in the city’s Upper Falls area was seen as a bellwether of the public’s appetite for housing construction in the Boston region.
Few families occupy Greater Boston’s larger homes
Instead, older empty-nesters and roommates cluster in condos and apartments with three bedrooms and up—the sort perfect for families with kids—a new report says.
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From potholes to piled-up garbage to broken lights to busted traffic signals—never despair of civic repairs again.
Bluebikes could expand into five more cities and towns
The expansion of the Boston region’s dominant bike-share system might roll out as soon as this spring, but there are funding challenges.
Bike-sharing in the Boston area, explained
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.
Newton turns over the hourglass on Boston College woods
The week’s other big development news includes a Somerville life sciences building, the rollout of Fenway Center, and, yes, another big going-on in Newton.
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6 Newton open houses this weekend for around $1M
For the most part, these are spacious affairs and come with some serious yardage by Boston-area standards.
Massive project in Newton wins key approvals
But the 14-building, 22.6-acre development in Upper Falls isn’t a go quite yet.
Newton Queen Anne with theater and wine cellar drops for $5.2M
The freshly built house includes six bedrooms and six full bathrooms as well.
Hurley Building sale in Boston would lead to multi-acre development downtown
Other big development news of the week includes major tweaks to projects in Mattapan, the Financial District, Fort Point, and Newton.
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Chestnut Hill mansion flush with a dozen bathrooms
The spread—the product of a three-year renovation—also comes with seven bedrooms and six fireplaces. It’s asking $12 million now.
Another trim to Riverside proposal in Newton
The multi-building project next to a Green Line terminus would now run to just over 1 million square feet and include more apartments.
Cozy shingle Vic in Newton Center on sale for $1.65M
The five-fireplace, seven-bedroom house near the Mass. Pike dates from 1880.
The Boston-area development trends to follow going into 2020
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Here’s what you need to know about Boston-area development this week
Critical Mass. is a weekly roundup of the most notable development news in the Boston area. This busy go-round includes goings on in the South End, West Newton, and Alewife.
Is 13 stories too high in Newton?
Developers have scaled back plans for a multi-building project next to the Green Line’s Riverside stop amid opposition to its scale. Proponents say it’s just what the region needs.
Newton house dating from 1846 asks $1.7M
The Newtonville pile includes five bedrooms as well as a working Glenwood stove from 1939.
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Mapping the Boston area’s role in 19th-century abolitionism
These 10 spots include notable houses and stops on the Underground Railroad.
Here are the median apartment rents in 16 Boston-area cities and towns
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Stately Queen Anne in Newton on sale for $2.25M
The nine-room house in Waban dates from 1886, and includes four living levels and a garage.
West Newton stucco Vic with seven bedrooms drops for first time since 1967
The house includes 10-foot-plus ceilings downstairs and a two-car garage, plus a nearly half-acre yard.
Plush Chestnut Hill Italianate with seven-room carriage house on sale for $3.9M
The Newton estate dating from around 1875 is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Newton Centre Victorian with 15 rooms and five fireplaces on sale for $2M
The house dating from 1880 also includes four decks.
Is privatizing public transit the answer to the Boston area’s awful traffic?
Two recent plans—one in Boston and one in Newton—show the possibilities and the limits of throwing private money at a public challenge.
Newton clapboard colonial near the Mass. Pike on sale for just over $1M
The house in the Auburndale area dates from 1928, and includes a gas-powered stove in the sunroom.
Airy Newton contemporary with up to four bedrooms and a big backyard asks $1.38M
The nine-room Oak Hill house is marking 60 years this year.
Chestnut Hill brick colonial with four levels and seven fireplaces on sale for $6.95M
The nearly century-old house also includes the potential for six bedrooms.
Multi-building Newton development would add hundreds of apartments off the Green Line and Route 128
The proposal also calls for two office buildings, a 200-room hotel, and plenty of parking. But will such ambitions fly with locals?
Newton midcentury modern with renovation potential on sale for $1.8M
Only one family has owned the Oak Hill spread since its went up in 1956. It could use some work. What’d you think?
Renovated Tudor in Chestnut Hill with a bar in the basement on sale for $1.7M
The 88-year-old Tudor at 29 Gate House Road in Newton’s slice of Chestnut Hill was renovated two years ago, and manifests those changes throughout.
There’s an ‘expanded cape’ for sale in the Newton-Boston borderlands
The house has been added to, indeed, and the 1,808-square-foot result includes three bedrooms and two full bathrooms—and plenty of tiles and bright walls.
Newton cape with a cavernous great room and an in-ground pool drops for $1.45M
The house—which the work of the late M.I.T.-trained architect Royal Barry Wills inspired—includes the potential for four bedrooms. There are three full bathrooms as well as a two-car garage.
Newton Victorian with 14 rooms beneath a mansard roof drops for $2.3M
The 4,345-square-foot house—the bones of which date from 1874—also boasts five and a half bathrooms and plenty of built-in shelving as well as space for touches such as a nursery or an office.
Grand brick Vic in Newton Centre drops for $1.45M
The 11-room house, the bones of which date from 1895, has that scope going for it, which includes an eat-in kitchen, vaulted ceilings, and the potential for five bedrooms. There are also touches such as stained and leaded glass and a large back deck.