Old Filene’s site to be built on!!!!! Hip-Hip Hooray!!!

Boston.com is reporting that Millennium Partner’s is teaming with Vorando Realty Trust to push forward with plans to finally develop the old Filene’s basement site that has sat desolate since the summer of 2008. Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end for one of the more disastrous blunders in the history of Boston [...]

Harold Brown fears return to rent control

According to the BBJ at a recent Boston Multifamily Housing Summit famed real estate developer and CEO of The Hamilton Company, Mr. Harold Brown, fears a potential return to the nightmare of rent control. Brown notes that in his opinion there is a limit on how many “rich people” are around and can afford to [...]

Update from the development front

While many are still reeling from the sagging economy some major Boston development plans are moving ahead as posted earlier on this blog. This author thinks it is a positive sign for the future. Here is a development that is set to change the skyline and feel of Mass Ave and Boylston street. The area [...]

The W Boston to be sold

As reported by Boston.com the new and already iconic W hotel will be sold for $89.5 Million. This sale does not included the 123 condominiums portion of the project – it is only the hotel. I’ve been in the condos. They are nice. Small, but very nice. What I wonder about is the $10.5 million [...]

Affordable housing fight is just the surface

This is a story I have been watching unfold since it was announced a few months back that the developer of The Burbank Apartments on Haviland Street near Symphony Hall was going to opt out of the affordable housing business when they pay off their mortgage this year.  It should come as no surprise that [...]