Atlee Development News Today

Whether it was pandemic-related supply chain issues, or even the war in Ukraine, any number of setbacks seemed likely to thwart the construction of Dot Crossing, the five-story apartment building and bookstore at 1463-1469 Dorchester Ave. in the middle of the Fields Corner business district. But none did, and last Thursday TLee Development and its many partners celebrated

MassHousing on Monday announced $44.6 million in financing for six new homeownership development projects across the state, including two in Dorchester and one in Mattapan. The local projects are 120-122 Hancock St. in Dorchester, 270 Talbot Ave. in Dorchester, and the Preserve at Olmsted Green in Mattapan, a large project on the site of a former state hospital property.

Recent permits show four city park upgrades, a new art building for Episcopal High School, a new Dreamette, and the city's first Homesense store.

The O’Hearn building in Fields Corner, which houses the US Postal Service’s 02122 office and other businesses, is under agreement with an unnamed buyer, according to several sources in the Fields Corner neighborhood, including listing broker Ramsay Fretz and Main Streets Director Jackey West Devine. TLee Development, which had introduced a plan to renovate and reuse the

Fields Corner residents, asked to decide between two finalists for the better use of a ground-level retail space in the new Dot Crossing apartment building now under construction next to the MBTA station, voted to support a literary space that leans heavily on programming, clubs, and other special events – primarily after 6 p.m. and on the weekends. The 1,300-square-foot space

Grand Reserve East would be built on 141.5 acres on the east side of Roberts Road.

Abutters to the Fitzpatrick Brothers auto body property on Centre Street last week laid out their case against an 81-unit apartment building proposed for the site by Trinity Financial. Last November, the development company presented preliminary plans at a Melville Park Association (MPA) meeting and said that it expected to make a comprehensive case for the project at the

Having a voice in the neighborhood via community meetings is something that’s prevalent in Dorchester and Mattapan as development remains strong in the neighborhoods. Now, a new financing method being offered for the first time in Dorchester allows neighbors to not only weigh in on projects, but also to invest in them. It’s equivalent of letting community members put their

There has been a lot of missing teeth in the development of buildings along Blue Hill Avenue for nearly two generations, but there is hope that those gaps will be filled in as the first 8 of 30 city-owned vacant lots along the Ave. were designated for development this week – with five of them allotted to a young, local developer who has spent most of her life driving past the

Long-time Dorchester resident Milton Bramble stood on a vacant lot at the corner of Harvard and Standish Streets last week and recalled playing on the grassy patch years ago as a kid. It is just one of many empty, city-owned lots — many of them vacant for several decades— that still dot the landscape of the Talbot Harvard Triangle. Now, Bramble is part of a team selected by