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.

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.

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.

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.

Affordable apartments for seniors and people with disabilities left untouched for nearly 40 years will be refurbished starting in July, according to MassDevelopment, the state’s development finance agency and land bank.

At 278 units, Jefferson Park Federal is the largest project in the pipeline under new Affordable Housing Overlay zoning, and it heads off to the next approval in the process with several Planning Board members agreeing it is “fabulous.”

It’s no secret that Kendall Square is packed so tight with life sciences that firms are getting squeezed out and landing in Alewife, Somerville and Boston’s Seaport. Now a second mainstay of Cambridge biotech in a week has revealed it has its eye on Burlington, a town of some 26,377 people about 15 miles to the northwest.

The remaking of Harvard Square’s Garage mall has been revised to include lab and life-sciences space but less overall square footage; there’s an innovation in the signed community benefits agreement at Somerville’s Boynton Yards; and Harvard has photos of its renovated divinity school.

With a giant housing project in the works that will need money from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust, the Winn company had a response ready Thursday for an “unusual” letter of criticism filed by the mayor and vice mayor with the Trust’s board.

It wouldn’t feel right to let a week pass without another multimillion-dollar purchase by Denver-based Healthpeak in the Alewife area – and on Thursday came news of a $72 million transaction for 67 Smith Place.