Improvement Projects and Developments

For a nifty interactive map of all Boston development projects, click here;

click Project Map, then click Search on the menu to the left.

Proposed expansion of Winsor School

Details can be found on the BRA website here. 

Proposed development of condos at 909 Beacon

August 2011 update: 909 Beacon Street is well underway!

The building was purchased in the summer of 2010 by developer Pat McKenna, who plans to re-establish the building as residential condominiums from its current commercial usage.

If you have any comments on these new plans please email Kathy at ksschultz@yahoo.com.

Landmark Center may grow

August 2011 update: not happening, Landmark Center sold; see article.

 Fenway, Roxbury projects signaling retail resurgence

By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff  |  May 25, 2010  | Check Boston Globe Archives for complete article

Jenn Abelson can be reached at abelson@globe.com

Audubon Circle Redesign Project - Be There!!

4:00-5:00 PM, October 24, 2011: Join the ACNA Board and the Boston Transportation Department for a "walk-around" of the planned Circle Redesign; we'll be meeting at the Circle to discuss traffic, planters, and a pedestrian light we'd like to see at the intersection of Beacon and Miner Streets.

August 2011 update: hoping for a final public meeting in early fall 2011, and start date of spring 2012: stay tuned!

On Monday October 5th 2009 at the Boston Arts Academy, representatives from the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Transportation Department met with neighborhood groups (ACNA, the Fenway Civic Organization, and others), interested neighbors, and staff of our elected city and state representatives, about their developing plans for the redesign of Audubon Circle and Boylston Street. Reports were delivered by Vineet Gupta of the BTD, and by representatives from the engineering firm HDR and Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge (landscape architects). When asked, we were told that the Urban Ring is on hold, whereas the Circle redesign is moving forward. There were no new designs, but the city is moving toward "100% design" in 6-8 months, bidding in the fall of 2010, and shovels in the ground in spring 2011. The neighborhoods were promised regular meetings as the design goes forward, particularly for Audubon Circle, whose preliminary design (below), the city acknowledges, has elicited a range of positive and negative comments which they want to address. 

We will prominently announce any neighborhood meetings on this website; please check back regularly, and feel free to attend the next ACNA Board meeting to comment on this major transformation of our neighborhood!

The redesign of Audubon Circle has been in the planning stages for two years. After a community meeting in September of 2008, the Transportation Department developed its final plans for improved pedestrian, bicycle and traffic flow in the Circle. Access the City's report on and drawings of the proposed redesign of Audubon Circle here. 

The Urban Ring

The Urban Ring is a proposed circumferential transit line that includes routes and stations in Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Medford, Somerville, Cambridge and Brookline. The Urban Ring is intended to improve travel times and reduce transit system congestion in the downtown Boston core by connecting existing subway and commuter rail lines, as well as many bus routes.

1330 Boylston Street Project complete

One Kenmore Project

August 2011 update: work on the first phase, the Yawkey commuter rail station, is underway.

Check out the Meredith Management website on the project.