CEG - Tue June 10, 2025
New Designs for Office Building Just Outside Fenway Park's Green Monster in Boston
The view behind Fenway Park's Green Monster may soon change forever if plans to build an office building along Lansdowne Street become a reality. The Boston Globe reported that at a Boston Planning and Development meeting on June 2, 2025, WS Development in Chestnut Hill unveiled renderings of its proposed project....
GBH News & Holocaust Legacy Foundation - Thu June 05, 2025
Downtown Boston Construction Will Create New England's First Holocaust Museum
Boston boasts some of the best museums in the world, but until now, not one has focused exclusively on the study of the Holocaust. That absence struck a chord with Todd Ruderman and Jody Kipnis, co-founders of the Holocaust Legacy Foundation (HLF), which is spearheading the museum's creation....
StreetsblogMASS & PR Newswire - Wed June 04, 2025
Mystic River Bridge Project Now Delayed Until Late 2026; Adaptive Reuse Effort Kicks Off in Worcester
The Boston area might need to wait at least five more years for one of its highest-priority infrastructure projects to become a reality. StreetsblogMASS reported June 3, 2025, that a new Massachusetts capital budget for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 indicates that construction on the long-awaited Mystic River bicycle and pedestrian bridge between Somerville and Everett will not begin until late 2026 or 2027, and that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) does not expect to complete the project until the early 2030s....
Dorchester Reporter - Wed April 23, 2025
Ground Breaks On $70M Project to Build Fieldhouse+ in Dorchester
Officials from across the Boston, Mass., area came together April 17, 2025, in Dorchester, a neighborhood on the city's south end, to break ground next to heavy construction equipment on the $70 million Fieldhouse+ project, an athletics and community space complex....
Fall River Herald News - Mon March 31, 2025
South Coast Rail Line Opens in Mass.; Feds Warn Three State Bridges at Risk of Collapse
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was joined in the town of Fall River by Mayor Paul Coogan and other local and state dignitaries March 24, 2025, to cut the ribbon on the Fall River/New Bedford commuter route of the state's long-awaited South Coast rail line....
Harvard Crimson & Harvard Medical School - Mon February 24, 2025
After $75M Donation, Renovations Begin On Harvard Medical School Building
Construction is under way on updating Building C at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) campus in Boston, Mass. following a $75 million gift from Swiss biotech executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ernesto S.M....
Dorchester Reporter - Fri February 14, 2025
Boston Public Schools to Ask Mass. for Help to Rebuild Aging Madison Park High in Roxbury
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Feb. 11, 2025, that her administration will seek state approval and funding to help build a new or heavily renovated facility for the aging Madison Park Technical Vocational High School campus in Roxbury....
CEG - Mon January 06, 2025
Upgraded Part of Boston's Copley Square Park Reopens; Wildlife Crossing to Be Built Over I-90
A new year brings a newly renovated section of Copley Square Park in Boston. Mayor Michelle Wu's office had earlier announced that a portion of the downtown park would reopen Jan. 1 in the northeast triangle between Boylston Street and Trinity Church after more than a year of work....
The Blazing Musket & City of Boston - Mon December 16, 2024
Efforts to Rebuild Boston's White Stadium Delayed; Finish Now Likely in Mid-2026
White Stadium, the future home of BOS Nation FC, may not be ready in time for the start of the women's soccer club's inaugural 2026 season, the city of Boston revealed in a public meeting Dec. 12. The updated timeline by the city noted that the stadium's reconstruction is now slated for completion in the spring or summer of 2026....
StreetsblogMASS - Thu December 05, 2024
In Reversal, MassDOT Decides Boston's Allston Project to Include Large Rail Yard After All
In an email to elected officials during the first week of December, Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt wrote that the state's plans for a new $2 billion highway interchange in Allston "will include layover tracks for MBTA/Compass Rail trains, two express tracks for the Worcester Mainline, and a larger buffer path," contrary to comments she had made earlier this year....
