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BRA wins 6 more years for urban renewal in Council vote

BOSTON – The Boston City Council approved a six-year extension of the Boston Redevelopment Authority's urban renewal tools to develop more than 3,000 acres of property in 14 different areas of the Hub. Councilors voted 10-3 on Wednesday in favor of the extension, which is four years less

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Project aims to add 710 housing units to Boston’s South End

BOSTON – Plans are firming up for a new residential development in the South End that promises to add 710 units to Boston's housing stock, according to the companies behind the project. Called the Harrison Albany project for the two main thoroughfares that border the property, the plan calls

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BRA woos City Council to extend development power

BOSTON – The Boston Redevelopment Authority's bid to retain for 10 more years the power to reshape entire neighborhoods took center stage at a four-hour City Council hearing Thursday. But the council stopped short of delivering the favorable vote sought be the agency to extend the life of its

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How urban renewal drives Boston’s 21st century feel

BOSTON – From the razing of the West End in the 1950s to the more recent Big Dig, Boston's urban renewal projects aren't points of universal pride among local residents. Yet today's Boston, the city people know and love, owes its current look and feel

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Boston’s low-wage workers struggle to rise, BRA study shows

BOSTON – Low-wage workers in Boston, the economic engine that drives the region, have largely been passed over by growth for a quarter century, in terms of real income, according to a report issued by the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The roughly $35,000 inflation-adjusted median income for Boston residents who worked

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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

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Towers approved to replace Government Center garage

BOSTON – A piece of Boston's Brutalist-style Government Center will fall under a plan approved Thursday for two towers on the downtown site. A 480-foot residential building and a 528-foot office tower will replace the Government Center garage, a hulking concrete structure stretching over Congress Street that opened in

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Boston agency OKs affordable housing, school projects

BOSTON – Plans to create 95 affordable housing units won approval Thursday from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with an expansion of Dorchester's Epiphany School, a 127-room hotel in East Boston and a new Harvard Business School auditorium in Allston. In the city's Chinatown area, two nonprofit