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With two major Requests for Proposals (RFP) out on the street this fall for Uphams Corner, City officials told those involved in the planning for the Uphams Corner Arts & Innovation District that the effort was at an exciting and pivotal moment. For the first time since last spring, the Working Advisory Group (WAG) and the members of the community gathered online on Nov. 17

The first part of The Abby, a three-building, 600 unit development in North Quincy, is complete.

View Comments The Kenwood Theatre across from the Kenwood Towne Centre may be closing, but a new state-of-the-art cinema with 12 screens is opening on the other side of the mall. The owner of the Kenwood Place shopping center, where the Kenwood Theatre has operated for more than a decade, wants to revamp the movie house building and another retail building next to it – turning them into modernized spaces for shops, restaurants and offices. The Sycamore Township Zoning Commission will take...

Jamaica Plain’s Turtle Swamp Brewing and its landlord, Monty Gold, have filed separate lawsuits in Suffolk Superior Court to block the construction of a 39-unit apartment building that would provide affordable housing to low-income seniors and a new space for Dominican restaurant El Embajador. Two-thirds of the apartments would go to seniors making no more than 60 percent of the median income in Boston, while one-third would go to seniors making no more than 30 percent of that number. The dev...

Mia McCarthy, BU Statehouse Program BOSTON — The impact of the pandemic on the southeastern Massachusetts business and housing sectors – and the steps that will be needed to recover – were the focus of the inaugural session of the Massachusetts Senate Committee named Reimagining Massachusetts Post-Pandemic Resiliency. “Today marked the committees first step in listening to experts and impacted individuals in Massachusetts on the topics of housing, the digital divide, and business conc...

The Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA) on February 23 approved the 39 unit affordable senior housing project at 3371-3375 Washington St., as well as approved as final arbiter the project at 35 Brookley Road after previously approving it in July of last year “subject to design review by BPDA with attention to reducing density and massing and for compliance with the rear yard setback requirement,” according to the ZBA. 3371-3375 WASHINGTON ST. The proposal at 3371 Washington St has been presented t...

The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) Zoning Committee met virtually on February 3, and heard two items that brought many residents to the meeting to speak on the issues. The first was a proposal for the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) and New Atlantic Development to build a new five-story mixed-use building with 39 units of senior housing along with commercial space at 3371-3375 Washington St. The second agenda item was a proposal at 3326-3328 Washington St. ...

Marvel’s Jonathan Marvel and Dattner’s Kirsten Sibilia In the early weeks of 2020, architect Jonathan Marvel saw a steady stream of multifamily and public works jobs come across his desk. “And then everything came to a screeching halt,” he said. Marvel’s eponymous firm wasn’t alone. Design work dried up during the height of the pandemic as many construction sites shut down and financing became scarce. Still, once construction work was permitted to resume in New York, many firms saw ...