Mixed Use
Congress Square Discussion at BSA Placemaking Network
Join Arrowstreet’s Principal, Scott Pollack and Related Beals’ Executive Vice President, Stephen Faber, speak at the BSA/AIA’s upcoming Placemaking Network meeting on March 27th. Scott and Stephen will share the exciting transformation underway on Related Beal’s and Arrowstreet’s additions and renovations to six buildings at the corners of Water Street, Devonshire Street, and Congress Street into a new 13-story boutique…
Workforce Housing and Innovation Tenants
BisNow’s “The Future of Cambridge: Innovation, Community Engineering and the Spread of the Kendall Square Phenomenon,” moderated by our old friend Rich McKinnon, was an interesting, insightful discussion between public (Tom Evans, the Executive Director of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority, and Iram Farooq, Assistant City Manager of the City of Cambridge), and private (Alex Twining, CEO Twining Properties, and Lawrence…
Walking East Boston with ULI
This week a few of us attended a ULI walking tour of East Boston’s waterfront development. We enjoyed a water taxi ride over, and visited residential projects at various stages of development — one plans to lease by August, while another recently completed permitting. Each development has a retail component and public access to the water, including new water taxi…
What is the Future of Downtown?
One of the best things about great cities is that they adapt and change. Rail yards become new neighborhoods, and industrial districts become lofts, offices, and shopping centers. The ability of the urban fabric to evolve with the rapidly changing ways we live and work is part of the reason people and businesses are returning to the city core. It…
Retail & the City (and the suburbs, too)
Once upon a time, people lived in the same places where they worked and shopped. Like my grandparents, who lived over the butcher shop in Irvington, New Jersey. Their community was tied together by local retailers. Then, someone decided that it would better and cleaner and less bothersome to separate where we lived from where we worked, and from where…
Innovation in Kendall Square
When Vertex announced it was leaving Cambridgeport for Boston’s Seaport District in 2011, there was some initial concern in the city over the loss of a major tenant in this vital life sciences district. However, our client, BioMed Realty, had a vision for the vacant buildings: to create space for start-ups and up-and-coming life sciences companies that had previously been…
A Waterfront Vision for Lynn
This week, Arrowstreet’s Amy Korte and David Bois presented plans to the city of Lynn for a primarily residential development to be located on the Lynnway near North Shore Community College on a site that has been vacant for 30 years. The waterfront housing will consist of 348 one-and-two bedroom apartments, and some retail components. Construction is expected to begin in…
Housing Group Visits Ocean 650
Recently, Arrowstreet’s internal housing group went on the first of two site visits to Ocean 650 in Revere to see how construction was coming along. Ocean 650 is a part of Arrowstreet’s Waterfront Square at Revere Beach masterplan—a transit-oriented, mixed use development adjacent to the Wonderland T station. The 230-unit high-rise building is podium construction—a three-hour fire rated horizontal assembly…
Aerial Views of Greybarn Phase 1
Last week we received new aerial photos of the construction of our Greybarn Residential Development on Long Island. This new, mixed-use neighborhood in Amityville, New York, is located at the prominent intersection of Sunrise Highway and Route 110 and will contain 500-residential units and retail, spread over eight shingle-style buildings with gambrel roofs. We are currently in the first of five…