By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF August 26, 2017 Boston was flying high. New towers were transforming the downtown skyline, while growing companies couldn’t hire fast enough to fill open jobs. Home prices had been surging for half a decade, and condo builders were racing to keep up with the demand. The year was 1988. And…
The Boston condominium market is experiencing a trajectory never before seen in the history of the city. Spectacular towers attaining prices in excess of $2,500 per foot have established Boston as a competitive player on a worldwide stage. Millennium Tower, 22 Liberty, The Pierce, One Dalton and Pier 4 have each established the high-water mark…
Cottonwood Management’s groundbreaking ceremony on its new $900 million, three-tower Seaport District development was more than just the latest mega-project to hit Boston via a new development player in town.
733 housing units Developer Cottonwood Management officially broke ground on June 13 on a 1.33 million-square-foot Seaport District development that it is calling Echelon Seaport. The three-building project is set to have 733 apartments and condos. Some 448 of those will be condos spread over two towers. According to the Globe’s Tim Logan, that block…
Echelon Seaport’s three buildings will total 1.3 million square feet. By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF June 13, 2017 Developers and city and state officials Tuesday celebrated the start of work on one of the biggest housing developments yet to hit the Seaport District. Governor Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh were on hand…
The stark underpass of Interstate 93 will be a flourishing urban park come June. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and National Development announced plans for Ink Underground, an urban park that will span eight acres partially under Boston’s Interstate 93. Stretching from Albany Street to the Fort Point Channel, the park will serve…
Fenway is changing Unit 25-2K, a 1,148-square-foot condo on the 25th floor of the under-construction Pierce Boston residential tower at 188 Brookline Avenue in Fenway, is asking $1,991,6000—or $1,734.84 a square foot. Such a sum is not unusual in modern Boston—and hasn’t been unusual for a while—but it is rather striking for Fenway. Then again,…
By Paul E. Kandarian GLOBE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 17, 2017 IN THE KITCHEN Mother-and-daughter team Lynn Tripp, 57, and Olivia Tripp, 25, have a lot in common: The elder Tripp is an associate professor at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, the daughter a 2014 graduate of the school with a degree in culinary nutrition. In…
by Marcus Mitanis The last time we checked in on the progress of Arquitectonica‘s first project in Boston, the building’s structural skeleton was sprouting like a weed. But there was no sign yet of the sharp and sleek glazing that was marketed. That’s changed in the months since, with crews covering much of the…
Federal Realty Investment Trust’s Alloy at Assembly Row in Somerville topped off recently. The property will include 122 units when it is completed next year. It is the first upscale condo development in Assembly Row, to go along with its retail, restaurants, office space and a hotel. Pictured are Sue Hawkes, Heather Hathieson, Amy Clements,…