The Bruins-Rangers showdown wasn’t the only game in the North Station area yesterday. Boston Properties and Garden Development Corp. (i.e. the Bruins owners) have officially applied to build a 1.7 million mixed-use development next to TD Garden. The complex would have 500 residential units and lots of retail, office and hotel space. P.S. — Bruins [...]

Another day. Another apartment-complex for Boston. This one is going to be next to the Tip O’Neill federal building and TD Garden in the North Station area — and it’s just the latest housing project slated for the city. File under: More housing, please Update — AvalonBay, the developer of the North Station project, has [...]

The developers of Lovejoy Wharf are getting some city tax breaks to help them proceed with the $230 million project, which includes Converse eventually moving hundreds of employees into the future renovated building. And, boy, does the building need renovation. The tax breaks are expected to offset some of the costs of rebuilding and extending [...]

From the Herald, on the Lovejoy Wharf project approved yesterday by the city: “The developers will renovate the existing nine-story building at 160 North Washington Street with 187,000 square feet of office space — reportedly for incoming tenant Converse — and ground-floor retail including a 300-seat cafe-style restaurant. One floor will be added. “The adjacent [...]

The North Bennet Street School, a private North End vocational school, is scrambling to come up with enough cash and final approvals in order to convert the old BPD and printing buildings into a new venue for its students. The city and the school have agreed to a cross-neighborhood land swap in which the city [...]

AvalonBay has taken over the development rights next to TD Garden in the North Station area — and they’re planning to dramatically increase the number of apartments there. Boston Garden Development Corp. previously had plans to develop about 363 apartments, but that proposal never got off the ground. Enter AvalonBay, which took over the development [...]

This just in from the Herald: “The Boston Redevelopment Authority approved revised plans for the Merano, a $165 million project consisting of a 210-room hotel and 230 apartments in the Bulfinch Triangle.The building will be constructed on a Central Artery air-rights parcel between Causeway Street and the Rose Kennedy Greenway, near the TD Garden.”

The city of Boston has quietly asked for bid proposals for a pair of surplus North End buildings, including the gateway old police station at 150 North Street. The Herald reports a number of developers are eying the properties for either condos/apartments or possibly a new location for a neighborhood trade school. Both are good [...]

It looks like a long-sought supermarket for the North End area isn’t going to happen. Trinity Financial has yanked the supermarket component from its design for a new 320-unit apartment complex in the Bulfinch Triangle area, in between Canal and Washington Streets. Nearby residents aren’t happy. They really wanted that store. Hey, there’s a Whole [...]

The owners of the struggling Joe Tecce’s restaurant want to build 32 luxury condos at its 61 North Washington Street site in the North End. They say they need to do it to avoid bankruptcy. Hmm. Other developers are moving away from luxury condos and toward rental apartments. But Joe Tecce’s is bucking that trend? [...]