Fisher College has purchased some prime real estate across the street from the Public Gardens. Here’s some architectural history on 10-11 Arlington Street and some sales background. From B&T: “Fisher College plans to lease space in the 17,000-square-foot building back to the (nonprofit) Tellus Institute and other nonprofit tenants for another two years and will [...]

Developer Steve Samuels has been tapped by the state to build a giant, $360 million residential, retail and hotel complex at the corner of Mass Ave and Boylston Street, right next to the Mass Pike and near the Hynes Convention Center and Berklee School of Music. The complex will eventually have 230 residences and 270 [...]

After a lot of understandable open-house cancellations this past weekend due to the snow storm, it’s back to business this coming weekend. One of is for 103 Beacon Street, right on the border between the Back Bay and Beacon Hill — $1.099 million, 1003 square feet, two bedrooms.

A proposed 33-story tower would replace the old Boston Common Hotel & Conference Center at 40 Trinity Place, just a block or two away from Copley Square. And, yes, it would be “glass covered.” What’s up with all the new glass-covered buildings these days? Don’t they have any other materials? They don’t have to be [...]

After 20 years in business, Charley’s Saloon on Newbury Street has sadly closed down. File under: Bummer.

The owner of a parking garage at 341 Newbury Street, near Mass Ave, is proposing turning the first two floors into 10,000 square feet of retail space, similar to what Danker & Donahue, the owner, did to its next-door garage a while back, the Herald reports. The basement and top floors at 341 Newbury would [...]

Glynn Hospitality wants to develop one of the last non-developed lots left along Newbury Street (and it may well be the very last developable lot on Newbury Street). Currently a surface parking lot hidden by a small brick wall, the small site is in between the popular Sonsie restaurant and a row of townhouses. The [...]

One of the first resales in the ultra-luxury condominium project known as The Clarendon came on the market yesterday. Less than two years after the original owner bought the home, it’s being listed for 63% – actually, 63.9% – more than it’s purchase price, at $1,639,000. Unit #16A is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom home with approximately [...]