Apartment tower approved for Boston’s West End

BOSTON – A planned apartment tower near TD Garden in the West End won approval from the city's development agency Thursday, capping a nearly six-year effort to create hundreds of new apartments in the neighborhood between North Station and Massachusetts General Hospital. The scaled-back project calls for a slightly shorter tower, at 447 feet high, and fewer parking spots, according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which gave its approval at a Thursday evening meeting. The $350 million bui

BOSTON – A planned apartment tower near TD Garden in the West End won approval from the city's development agency Thursday, capping a nearly six-year effort to create hundreds of new apartments in the neighborhood between North Station and Massachusetts General Hospital. The scaled-back project calls for a slightly shorter tower, at 447 feet high, and fewer parking spots, according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which gave its approval at a Thursday evening meeting. The $350 million bui…