Boston, Meet Co-living: The New Housing Alternative with Shared Spaces

Living in a big city has it’s pros and cons, but for the most part, finding decent, affordable housing is an issue many people are faced with. The concept of co-living, or sharing a common space with strangers while still living in your own private room, has...

BBJ Calls Out Ink Block as “Shining Example” of Placemaking and Live-Work-Play Mixed-use Development

Developers see a ‘perfect opportunity’ in Boston’s South End  There’s no local development more often cited as an example of the real estate concept of “placemaking” than Ink Block in Boston’s South End. The six-building complex...

Underground at Ink Block Murals Featured in Boston Globe Cover Story on Public Art

by Murray Whyte, Boston Globe, July 27, 2019 …“Underground at Ink Block,” in the South End, may not make any grand political statement — it’s a growing collection of street art under I-93 — but just by being here, in an uncared-for slice of the city, it does. It...

ND Plans ‘Transformative’ Mixed-use Development on 10 Acres in South Boston

Lower Newton Falls-based real-estate firm National Development is in the early stages of planning a large-scale mixed-use project on at least 10 acres in South Boston located between the Broadway and Andrew MBTA stations. That area, primarily a stretch between...

Turning to Adult Dorms, Libraries, Rentable Attics to Help Solve Boston Housing Crunch

It has been one disappointment after another for Maxwell Sparr of Brighton. For months he has been searching for a house or a condo in Boston. “This is the fifth or sixth property that I have lost out on,” he said, pointing out a perfectly manicured duplex...