Checking success of Affordable Housing Overlay, councillors wonder at walkaways and rejections
The first report on the effects of the Affordable Housing Overlay raised many questions, but councillors decided to keep wondering until they could hold a comprehensive hearing.
Early project community engagement meetings should have an in-person option, board agrees
Developers have introduced plans remotely during the Covid pandemic, but may be expected to hold either a hybrid meeting or two meetings, including one that’s in-person.
Infrastructure-first approach is eyed in Alewife as working group charts out six-month process
A group trying to help define how the Alewife area develops for the coming decades is expected to wrap up in December – capping work begun more than 40 years ago.
Foundry ribbon-cutting gives the city a glimpse of $46 million project that opens in September
While the Foundry 101 building opens to the public in September, major construction is finished and residents were allowed to walk through the first floor of the refurbished building Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting, visiting spaces within where creation will take place.
The zoning freeze on building labs and offices around Alewife won’t include its Triangle area
The moratorium on construction of office and labs in the Alewife area during a zoning process will go forward without the area known as the “Triangle.”
Affordable developer made space for bike storage by misleading board, tearing down its own trees
The developer of an affordable-housing project in The Port neighborhood cut down a flourishing stand of trees to make room for bike storage lockers for tenants after assuring zoning regulators that the space with the trees contained no more than “overgrown ivy.” There’s no evidence the bike storage is needed.
‘Flats on First’ sells for $103M in East Cambridge, near leasing for 136 apartments across from mall
A building originally announced to be finished in 2020 – in an estimate from March 2019, before the Covid pandemic – has been completed and sold near Kendall Square.
Despite bristles over a request for no conditions, and design issues, Kendall tower wins approval
Though there are design details to be worked out, Cambridge’s next tallest building – a 38-story residential tower proposed for 135 Broadway, Kendall Square – won general approval from the Planning Board and Cambridge Redevelopment Authority last week.
Davis Square braces for pair of redevelopments, shaking up a plaza, Elm Street and their retailers
Somerville’s Davis Square is set to see a pair of construction projects that could uproot more than a dozen businesses, from a pawn shop and doctor’s office to restaurants, a bakery and bubble tea shop. One property manager condemned by some in Harvard Square for its rent hikes is promising a more benevolent approach here.
Residents see second proposal for Walden Square with assurances for better security, maintenance
A revamped proposal for adding affordable apartments to North Cambridge’s Walden Square was greeted as better than the original from last year, but a litany of complaints from current tenants made the sense of progress hard to gauge.
