Lack of affordability in ‘missing middle’ zoning cited as Planning Board members go 5-3 against
The “missing middle” zoning intended to bring more multifamily housing to the city got a negative recommendation Tuesday from the Planning Board. Members voted 5-3, delivering a blow to the proposal, though it will continue on with a City Council committee hearing at a date yet to be set.
Affordable building keeps Planning Board favor with slight changes; Broad Canal plan displeases
Changes in the all-affordable building proposed for 2072 Massachusetts Ave. didn’t change how the Planning Board felt about it, and members voted to affirm its endorsement of the North Cambridge project to the Board of Zoning Appeal, where it goes next.
Construction around new Union Square T station expected for years, and elevator isn’t due ’til 2022
Though the Union Square stop on the green line is expected to open as early as October, there’s no sign yet of elevator access from its neighboring parcel, which got its building permit Thursday and could be under construction into the fall of 2024.
Plan for MIT’s empty triple-decker in Central, due to be affordable units, awaits assessment
An assessment of a long-empty triple-decker in Lafayette Square is expected to be complete within a couple of months, leading to a plan on its conversion into affordable housing for families.
Teardown ‘unoccupied’? The resident disagrees – and has fought over 88 Holworthy St. for years
A demolition application for a Strawberry Hill property lists it as “currently unoccupied,” but Ferahnaz Kahyaoglu lives there – and the owner knows it, if only from some of the several lawsuits she has filed since moving in two owners ago.
Met Pipe suing Alexandria over its Binney math; MIT preps update for 93-year-old dorm building
The hyper complicated Alexandria Real Estate Equities zoning petition that passed in 2020 brought together recreational land the city has wanted for three decades and made room for an entire Eversource electrical substation. But one player says it was left out, and is suing.
Walden Square Apartments could get 103 units under expansion plan eased by overlay zoning
The owner of Walden Square Apartments, an affordable housing community in North Cambridge with 240 apartments over 21 buildings, plans to add a seven-story apartment building off Raymond Street with 103 more units.
Alexandria buys land for Grand Junction path; Sherman units sell for $4.7M; Davis plans labs
As part of its 325 Binney St. lab building project, Alexandria Real Estate has bought the land it will give to Cambridge for construction of the city’s long-envisioned path for walkers, runners and bicyclists, according to a post on the Bldup development platform Monday.
Planning Board holds ‘missing middle’ zoning for more discussion, despite praise for its goals
Proposed “missing middle” zoning that might bring more multifamily housing to the city will stay with a torn Planning Board for more discussion – yet the fallback would have meant sending the proposal onward with notes on its complexity rather than the usual recommendation or rejection.
Foundry community building is topped off, landmark on the path to an opening in 2022
Architecture and design firm CambridgeSeven and contractor W.T. Rich celebrated placement of the final steel beam Tuesday on The Foundry, an East Cambridge community building expected to open in 2022.
