New changes to WS Development'splan to redevelop and grow Boston's Seaport district have beenproposed to the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), according to the Boston Business Journal.

The 23 acre development, partially under construction, couldalso get the addition of a public promenade from Summer Street to the Boston Harbor waterfront, a year-round active public piazza, and a Seaport Boulevard pedestrian-friendly median, among other things.

Read the Boston Business Journal's Here's the New Vision for Boston's Seaport Neighborhood.If youhavequestions about buying or selling Boston real estate, please call me at617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow. 

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• A Waterfront Thats Rapidly Transforming
• A Boston Parking Space: How Much Value Does it Add to a Home?
• Seven Huge Greater Boston Projects Set to Break Ground in 2017
• The Number of Homes for Sale in Massachusetts is Insanely Low

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 505 Tremont Street, #612, South End $1,049,000
• 197 Fayerweather Street, #2, Cambridge $728,000
• 28 Mount Vernon Street, #2, Beacon Hill $4,695,000

#BostonRealEstate #BostonRedevelopmentThe always-alert team at Curbed Boston has pointed outthe forward movement ofbuilding abovetransit in Boston.Curbed's new 2016 awards post highlights its favorite transit-inspired construction ideas, whether they involve building above the Mass Turnpike or atop South Station and Back Bay Station.Read Curbed Boston's Curbed Awards 2016: Idea of the Year.If you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market, please call me at617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Massachusetts Single Family Sales Soar
• Feds Announce $30M Grant to Help Replace Roxbury Housing
• Boston Average Closing Prices Went Up in Nearly Every Neighborhood in 2016
• Real Estate Forecast: What to Expect from the 2017 Housing Market

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 68 Russell Street #2, Charlestown $518,000
• 167 Commonwealth Avenue #4, Back Bay $699,000
• 1 Avery Street #23D, Midtown $2,600,000

More than 12,000 Boston residents have shared feedback and their visions of the future with the City of Boston. As a result, Boston's first citywide plan in 50 years now has a first draft.In anopening letter in the draft, Mayor Marty J. Walsh lays out the goals of the plan:

This draft plan identifies major initiatives that will expand opportunity, support a vibrant economy, enhance equality, and prepare for inevitable climate change. It identifies key areas where we can: take action to enhance the vitality of our neighborhoods, encourage mixed-use job centers, provide spaces for new housing and jobs, create sustainable waterfront for future generations, and connect historically underserved neighborhoods to opportunities.

It was in May of 2015 that Mayor Walsh announced Imagine Boston 2030. It was to be a two-year public engagement process to develop a plan.InImagine Boston 2030's video, Mayor Walsh states, "This is the first draft, so we're going to go back toeveryone for more of your feedback."The Imagine Boston 2030 initiative addressed key themes, among them accessible housing, efficient and sustainable transportation, recreation spaces, climate change preparedness, economic opportunity, arts & culture, design, and health.Read the draft.Are you planning to relocate to Boston? Are you thinking about where to livein Boston?If you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market, please call me at617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Feds Announce $30M Grant to Help Replace Roxbury Housing
• Boston Average Closing Prices Went Up in Nearly Every Neighborhood in 2016
• Real Estate Forecast: What to Expect from the 2017 Housing Market
• Bostons Luxury Housing Boom Slows Down

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 68 Russell Street #2, Charlestown $518,000
• 167 Commonwealth Avenue #4, Back Bay $699,000
• 1 Avery Street #23D, Midtown $2,600,000

#BostonRealEstate #BostonRedevelopmentA large section of the Bronstein Building at 27 Drydock Avenue has been sold to developer Related Beal, according to the Boston Globe. The property closed for $146.5 million.The hometo the Boston Design Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Emulate Inc., and Ginkgo Bioworks, it will soon become Reebok's world headquarters as well.As the name Drydock wouldimply, the address is a waterfront property. It is locatedon the fringes of the Seaport district. Development firm Jamestown purchased the other parts of the building in 2013 and calls their1.4 million square-foot space the Innovation and Design Building.Read the Boston Globe's Related Beal Buys Into Hot Seaport Property.Are you thinking about where to livein Boston?If you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market, please call me at617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Feds Announce $30M Grant to Help Replace Roxbury Housing
• Boston Average Closing Prices Went Up in Nearly Every Neighborhood in 2016
• Real Estate Forecast: What to Expect from the 2017 Housing Market
• Bostons Luxury Housing Boom Slows Down

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 68 Russell Street #2, Charlestown $518,000
• 167 Commonwealth Avenue #4, Back Bay $699,000
• 1 Avery Street #23D, Midtown $2,600,000

#BostonRedevelopment #BostonRealEstateBoston's new master plan for development is designed with a year 2050 citywide population of 800,000 residents in mind, according to a Boston Globe article."Imagine Boston 2030," as the plan is called, sees new neighborhoods coming to life in the outer reaches of the city over the next decade. Boston Mayor Marty J. Walsh also envisions a more updated way of life for the city:

If we want to be competitive on a global scale, on a national scale, wed better start investing in infrastructure, he [Walsh] said. Were talking about decades of neglect.

Imagine Boston addresses a wide range of concerns, includingaffordable housing, rising sea levels, transportation, greenhouse gas emissions, and expandingthe city's Emerald Necklace.Walsh notedthat the last plan, from the 1950s, while no longer applicable for these times, was successful for its time:

The result of that plan was a thriving city, Walsh said. This citys going to be very different as we move forward from here. We want to make sure as we grow and change, that we grow for everyone.

Read the Boston Globe's Walsh Plan Targets Corners of Boston for Development.Read Imagine Boston's vision of the city.Are you thinking about where to livein Boston?If you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market, please call me at617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Marine Wharf Hotel to Check in to the Southie Waterfront
• Boston Housing Prices Heading Toward Thanksgiving
• Seaport Towers Make Their Mark

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 32 Derne Street, #3C, Beacon Hill $2,495,000
• 130 Appleton Street #3H, South End $965,000
• 221 Mount Auburn Street #511, Cambridge $895,000

#BostonRedevelopment #BostonRealEstateThe once beautiful, now decrepit, former Alexandra Hotel in Boston's South End has twopotential buyers, according to the Boston Sun.After community activists requested that the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) take the site byeminent domain, the agencymade inquiries with its owners The Church of Scientology:

Our goal was first to engage and see if we could do anything to encourage them to take positive steps to encourage development, said Golden [BPDA director]. We learned the building was up for sale and they are closing in on finalizing a sale with a purchaser. Our understanding is that right now they have narrowed the field of suitors for the building to two. Selecting one of them is imminent.

Read the Boston Sun's BPDA's Eminent Domain Inquiries for Neighbors Bring About Potential Sale of Alexandra Hotel.If you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market, please call me at617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Boston Housing Prices Heading Toward Thanksgiving
• Strong Buyer Activity Throughout Greater Boston in September
• Downtown Boston Neighborhood Named to States Most Endangered Historic Resources List
• New Report Says Millennials Seriously Influencing Housing Market

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 59 Commercial Wharf #4, Waterfront $1,088,000
• 37 Mount Vernon #4, Beacon Hill $1,300,000
• 580 Washington Street #15E, Midtown $1,600,000

  #BostonRealEstate #BostonCondosCity of Boston officials havea 3-year agreementwithBoston Garden Development to turn City Hall Plaza into a 'winter garden,' according to Boston Magazine.Vendor stalls will be up along the Cambridge Street edge of the plaza from Thanksgiving of this year until the end of February 2017. A custom ice skating area is included in the plan.Mayor Marty Walsh expressed excitement about the plaza's potential for greater enjoyment:

This endeavor is the beginning of a joint venture that will help transform the plaza into a year-round destination, inviting the people of Boston to see the plaza come to life in new and exciting ways.

A ferris wheel was included in the original proposal, but that element ison hold because of structural concerns related to a tunnel beneath the plaza.Boston Garden Development are owners of the TD Garden.Read the Boston Magazine's Plans to Turn City Hall Plaza into a 'Winter Garden'Unveiled.Do you have plans to relocate to Boston?Are you thinking about where to live?Do you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market? If you have any questions at all, please all meat617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Despite Limited Inventory Greater Boston Market Continues to Boom
• Millennium Penthouse Condo $35M Sale Sets Boston Record
• Millennium Tower Continues to see Multi-Million Dollar Condo Sales

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 21 Father Francis Gilday Street, #508, South End $765,000
• 40 Worcester Street #1, South End $1,245,000
• 212 Winchester Street #1, Brookline $1,745,000
• 85 E. India Row #37 A/B, Waterfront $2,600,000

#BostonRedevelopment #BostonRealEstateOf the six prominent real estate developers proposingto redevelop Boston's Winthrop Square Garage, a plan by New York-based developer Millennium Partners hasmade the greatest impression on the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). The BRA is ready to begin negotiating financial terms with Millennium Partners for a tower with condos and office space, according to the Boston Globe.Millennium Partners are the same folks who brought Bostonthe newly completed Millennium Tower luxury condo building in Downtown Crossing, as well as the nearby Millennium Place luxury condo building.In addition to Millennium offering more than anyone else($151 million) for the property, the BRA reportedly also loves the design:

The BRA was also impressed with the buildings architecture, its mix of uses, and its hearty public realm, among other factors, said the agencys director, Brian Golden.We are eager to see this site serve as a hub for arts, culture, housing and innovation, Golden said in a statement.

A charge of a state lawviolation regarding the property must be ruled on before any construction could begin.Read the Boston Globe's Millennium Partners Tapped By City to Build Tower at Winthrop Square.Do you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market? If you have any questions at all, please all meat617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Sothebys Affiliate Feature: Tropical Bahamas Getaways
• Sothebys Affiliate Feature: Beautiful and Spacious Homes in the Berkshires
• The Greater Boston Real Estate Market is Skipping the Usual Summer Slowdown
• Taj Boston Sale Officially Closes, Improvements to Come
• New Projects Keep Boston on Top of Foreign Investments

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 177 Beacon Street #1, Back Bay $2,250,000
• 38 Concord Square #2, South End #1,440,000
• 346 Congress Street #414, Seaport $650,000
• 112 Fulton Street #2B, North End $929,000

 #BostonRedevelopment #BostonRealEstateAir rights changes have been proposed for theBostonSouth Station redevelopment project planned by global real estate developer Hines and China-based real estate company Gemdale Corporation, according to BLDUP.com.The Notice of Project Changewasfiled on July 29th with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). While the plan is still to construct three buildings with a mix of office, hotel, retail, and residential components, amajor changeproposed isadding another 589,000 square feet of residential space and another 140 parking spaces.The first phase of the constructionthe towercould begin in 2017. That phase is expected to be completed in four years. It isn't clear yet whether the residential component will be condos or rental apartments. According to BLDUP, that decision will be determined bymarket conditions.Read BLDUP's South Station Air Rights.Read the Boston Business Journal's Developers Plan More Residential at Massive South Station Tower Project.Do you have plans to relocate to Boston?Do you have questions about buying or selling homes in the Boston real estate market? If you have any questions at all, please all meat617-584-9790, orsend me an email via the linkbelow.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• Sothebys Affiliate Feature: Tropical Bahamas Getaways
• Sothebys Affiliate Feature: Beautiful and Spacious Homes in the Berkshires
• The Greater Boston Real Estate Market is Skipping the Usual Summer Slowdown
• Taj Boston Sale Officially Closes, Improvements to Come
• New Projects Keep Boston on Top of Foreign Investments

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 177 Beacon Street #1, Back Bay $2,250,000
• 38 Concord Square #2, South End #1,440,000
• 346 Congress Street #414, Seaport $650,000
• 112 Fulton Street #2B, North End $929,000

#BostonCondos #BostonRealEstateLast week 47 condos officially closed on the newMillennium Tower in Boston's Downtown Crossing, according to Curbed Boston.This 56-story tower, with 450 luxury condos and 335,000 square feet of retail, has been downa long road to arrive at this point. Fillingthe big hole in the ground where the Filene's Department Store once stood took much longer than originally anticipated.The folks at Curbed Boston have put together a sharplooking and informative timeline showing howthe site's ownershipand development have evolved since January of 2007. Local politics, firsts in Boston building height, firsts in Boston residential asking prices, and the economy have allstarred in this story.Read Curbed Boston's Millennium Tower: The Ultimate Timeline for Boston's Tallest Residential Building.Ifyou have questions about buying or selling Boston real estate, please get in touch. In my 24+ years in the Boston real estate market, Ive made it my priority to develop anextensive knowledge of the city, neighborhoods, buildings, people, and the many issues involved in the local real estate market.Would you like to know what your property is worth?Please call me at617-584-9790, or email me by clicking the blue button below.  

Boston Real Estate Headlines:

• New Projects Keep Boston on Top of Foreign Investments
• Bostons Seaport District Rolls Along
• The Boston Red Sox and the Real Estate Market
• Another Condo Project Planned for Southie
• Boston Living: Rooftop Grilling Laws

Featured Boston Real Estate:

• 1721 Washington Street #509, South End $750,000
• 42 8th Street #1525, Charlestown Navy Yard $510,000
• 177 Beacon Street #1, Back Bay $2,250,000
• 35 Channel Center #509, Seaport $3,500,000