By Anthony Longo
12
07
2007
Russia Wharf, a new conversion in progress down on Boston Waterfront area has some impressive renderings. Talks are that it will be a mixed use project including, retail, office & condos. Other recent projects down on the waterfront include the Residences at the Inter Continental which has been a glowing success in today Boston Condo market.
Watch for more new on Russia Wharf here
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Categories : Boston Condos, Boston Lifestyle, Boston Real Estate, RE.TECH, Waterfront
By Anthony Longo
10
07
2007
One of my favorite Boston neighborhoods and a booming Boston Real Estate neighborhood is our very own Chinatown.
The empty lots, the tangle of highways above and below ground, and the power plant may not look like much. But everyone agrees it’s prime real estate.
Residents of Chinatown next door see the 20 acres called the “Chinatown Gateway” on zoning maps as their best chance to develop much-needed affordable housing and alleviate a severe housing crunch.
But the city’s redevelopment authority has dubbed the area “South Bay” and envisions a new downtown district with upscale apartments, hotels, and offices.
This struggle in Boston is the latest in a land squeeze that is changing the nature of Chinatowns across the United States. As America’s downtowns become hip again, urban real estate is becoming so valuable that ethnic enclaves find it increasingly difficult to survive as the first stop for new immigrants, usually with few skills and no English.
Once a fixture in most major US cities, many Chinatowns have ceased to exist as magnets for new arrivals. San Diego’s Chinatown is now a historic district. A coalition in Phoenix is trying to save the last remaining Chinatown structure from becoming a luxury apartment building. Four of the enclaves in the 10 largest cities in Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia are now commercial areas. Dallas, which never had a historic Chinatown, designated a retail center as “Chinatown” in the 1980s. Other Chinatowns in Seattle, Detroit, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., are today primarily tourist spots. Continue.
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Categories : Boston Condos, Boston Real Estate, Chinatown
By Anthony Longo
6
07
2007
The stalled NorthPoint project, which is already reeling from a nasty legal battle between its partners, now faces another serious blow that could lead to delays in the opening of condo high-rises.
Contractors who had been working on the multibillion-dollar city within a city have taken out liens on the Cambridge development, saying they are owed more than $1.5 million for work they were never paid for.
The liens could prevent Boston and Maine Corp., a NorthPoint landowner and lead developer, from pushing ahead with plans to open the project’s first two condo buildings, lawyers for the contractors say. Continued..
(Northpoint Condo Blog Post)
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Categories : Boston Condos, Boston Lifestyle, Boston Real Estate, Cambridge
By Anthony Longo
2
07
2007
Battery Wharf seems to get re-charged as construction picks up pace. I dont know whether it is me and I just recognized the recent growth but the new North End Condo development seems to be flying along now!
Battery Wharf consists 104 units spread out over 7 floors. Battery Wharf also has a hotel component (Regent) bringing hotel services to these Super Luxury Condos on the Boston Harbor waterfront. Prices start around $1.1M and go all the way up to $5.2M+
Other Super Luxury Properties in Boston include: Residences at the InterContinental - Four Seasons Residences - Ritz Millennium - Heritage on the Garden - Atelier 505
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Categories : Boston Condos, Boston Lifestyle, Boston Real Estate, New Developments, North End, Super Luxury, Waterfront
By Anthony Longo
2
07
2007
Rudy & Joe from Sellsius pass by Boston yesterday to see us bloggers. Continue… here or here
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Categories : Boston Condos, Boston Lifestyle, RE.TECH
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