By Andrew Morrell Some of the best and brightest in Boston real estate were honored by Boston Agent magazine at the release party for its annual special edition, the 2018 Who’s Who in Boston Real Estate issue. The event was hosted on the top floor of Pierce Boston in Fenway, one of the city’s newest luxury…
By Michael Hoban In January 2010, as New England was beginning to emerge from the Great Recession, Thomas Menino, then mayor of Boston, launched an initiative dubbed “the Boston Waterfront Innovation District.” The plan was to take approximately 1,000 acres (400 ha) of underdeveloped land on South Boston’s waterfront and create a “work/live/play” environment designed…
By Timothy Inklebarger The Boston real estate market is ever growing upward and bringing in thousands of new residents to the city. The building boom has developers searching for new and creative ways to create a sense of place for residents once their buildings are completed, and they’re turning to consultants to make sure it’s…
Go behind the design of Echelon Seaport with James von Klemperer of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates By Adam Smith James von Klemperer of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates knows the Seaport District inside and out. His firm helped shape the original Seaport Square Master Plan about a decade ago, and is now behind the design of…
By Kara Baskin | Global Correspond Some of the best and brightest in Boston real estate were honored by Boston Agent magazine at the release party for its annual special edition, the 2018 Who’s Who in Boston Real Estate issue. The event was hosted on the top floor of Pierce Boston in Fenway, one of…
Formerly Seaport Square Block M Three mixed-use towers containing 1.3 million square feet under construction across 3.5 acres in the Seaport District. 717 residences and 125,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space will be built at EchelonSeaport. Two of the EchelonSeaport towers will contain 447 luxury condominium residences, and one tower will contain 270…
Three-building project contains Seaport District’s largest chunk of for-sale housing By Tom Acitelli | May 14, 2018 Condo prices at the under-development EchelonSeaport in the Seaport District start at $700,000 and run to more than $5 million. Unit types range from studios to three-bedrooms, with some marketed as pieds-a-terre. Developer Cottonwood Management officially broke ground…
By David Ryan | Tim LoganGLOBE STAFF May 14, 2018 Piece by piece, Boston’s newest neighborhood is coming together. From the nearly-finished elliptical glass tower at 121 Seaport Blvd. to the half-built Pier 4 where Anthony’s once proudly stood to the massive Echelon Seaport housing development now rising from the ground, the vision of a…
By Beth Teitell GLOBE STAFF May 3, 2018 By the time I got to the master bath, with its radiant-heated floors, free-standing egg-shaped tub I initially mistook for an art installation, and a $63,000 slab of marble topping the two-sink vanity — so buttery it looked poured — I was almost crying. Crying for all…
By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF April 26, 2018 Another luxury hotel company is coming to the Back Bay. Raffles Hotels & Resorts is partnering with developers Jordan Warshaw and Gary and Jeffrey Saunders to put its first North American property in a $375 million tower at the corner of Stuart Street and Trinity Place. The…