If you don’t see a crane somewhere today, then you probably didn’t make it out of your Hub area home. Such is the intensity of the Boston building boom: cranes, construction and commotion, everywhere.
Some new projects garner major media attention or stir the public’s imagination by offering $37 million penthouse condos or by raising quality of life expectations and prices in areas previously undervalued or underappreciated. Other projects, simply pile on to the momentum created by the success of another recently completed development nearby. And a few, business as usual, fly under the real estate cache radar, as their developers try to build middle of the road condos in well-established locations. Still, there is so much building, so many projects; one can get dizzy trying to keep up.
I’m on a mission to make it easier to understand this boom, so here’s the first step in what might turn out to be a thousand mile mental journey. It’s a quick overview of eight different condo projects in eight different Hub neighborhoods. These new construction developments are in Brighton, Charlestown, the North End, the South End, Somerville, South Boston, East Boston and the Longwood Medical Area. The overview provides quickly referenced info on the amount asked per square foot, the price range developers hope to sell one and two bedroom condos in, a few visuals, as well as most of the remarks the listing agent is using to communicate the project’s positive attributes to the public. This overview is aimed at providing an emotional and contextual feel to the project, how it stands alone and how it looks compared to other Hub developments. This overview is a beginning to getting a handle on Hub development without getting overwhelmed. I hope you like it. Just remember, like anything, anything you view in this overview, is subject to change without notice.
(To more easily understand 8 Hub Developments in 8 different Hub neighborhoods, click)
