Nashville Gains on Boston; Commuter Boats for Memorial Day
HUB-WIDE—Instead of the parking lots that will be the region's highways this Memorial Day Weekend, how about these? "MBTA commuter boat trips kick off this weekend and last through Labor Day. The public transit agency's boat service hauls passengers between Hingham, Hull, Georges Island, Grape Island and Boston. This is the second year MBTA weekend commuter service has been offered." [BostInno]
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BEYOND THE HUB—Music City U.S.A. is taunting us: "Nashville is the 25th-largest city in the nation. Since 2010, it has surpassed Baltimore in population. With a population of 644,014, Nashville now ranks just below Boston, which is home to 655,884 people, and Memphis, which has 656,861." [Tennessean]
No Holds Barred Among Somerville's Million-Dollar Babies
Somerville is well on its way to being one of the most desirable places to live in the Greater Boston area. That's no surprise since it's pulling out all the stops to attract buyers. Take, for instance, the only one of its kind, a luxury single-family by Davis Square with a three-car garage. This tricked-out townhouse just recently traded, but for under its asking price (there's hope yet in an ever-gentrifying Somerville). If a super modern and technology-filled place is your ideal home, this West Coast-style condo with a private terrace is still available.
This Video Tour of an Abandoned Asylum Looks Straight Out of a Horror Film
Screenshot via VimeoRuin porn goes cinematic in "Project Senium," a debut release from a group of filmmakers determined to preserve the experience of incredible abandoned spaces through elaborate short films. This video, just under 10 minutes, takes you through the ruins of a massive asylum that's been left to decay for nearly 20 years. Compared to similar projects documenting an abandoned seminary or an entire city, "Project Senium" involves a more dramatic soundtrack and more panic-inducing fast-forwarded shots, plus a haunting narrative voiceover.
Memorial Day Eats; Frank Pepe Pizza This Fall; More!
Let's gobble some restaurant news with Eater Boston.
[Photo: Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, Chestnut Hill/Official Site]
HUBWIDE—Here are some options for the long weekend, from Memorial Day brunch to dining in and around Logan Airport if you're traveling.
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SOUTH END—Banyan Bar + Refuge, an "Asian-inspired gastropub" from the team behind The Gallows and Blackbird Doughnuts (along with Phillip Tang from East by Northeast), will open in July in the former Hamersley's Bistro space.
"Fantastic news for Jeeves the butler who will now only need to walk 10 to 15 minutes for his master's Brie." —a reader on the new Roche Bros. in Downtown Crossing being used to market condos
Big Reveal: the North End 2-BR with Renovated Kitchen
And, now, the answer to this week's asking-price guessing game.
Address: 464 Hanover Street, #7
Price: $649,000
The Skinny: Wowza! More than 56 percent of you voted for the two priciest options re: this 2-BR, 1-BA at Commercial and Hanover streets. The biggest vote-getter by a nose was the highest amount, in fact: $729,000. Barely 36 percent guessed correctly. Better luck next time.
Price: $649,000
The Skinny: Wowza! More than 56 percent of you voted for the two priciest options re: this 2-BR, 1-BA at Commercial and Hanover streets. The biggest vote-getter by a nose was the highest amount, in fact: $729,000. Barely 36 percent guessed correctly. Better luck next time.
Looking for something to do this weekend? Jump through to our updated Curbed Boston Public Art Heatmap and check out the 21 must-see points in Greater Boston this summer. The vast majority are near public transit. They include the ginormous Janet Echelman sculpture above Fort Point Channel Park and the searingly sunny mural in Dewey Square. [Curbed Boston]Curbed Boston Wants to Know How Much You Pay in Rent
[Illustration via Shutterstock/Aleutie.]
Another Curbed Boston Renters Week is 'round the corner and to that end we want to hear from you, dear reader, about what you are paying per month in the Thunderdome that is the Greater Boston housing market. Tell us what the real rents are, not what the listing or the new-development website says. Tell us, too, about any incentives you've gotten and when (and where, obviously). Please email the always-discreet Curbed Boston Tipline with the details. Include addresseswhenever possible and specific amounts. We will post the juiciest and most helpful missives during Renters Week 2015. Stay tuned!
· Cheapest, Priciest Areas in the Hub to Rent an Apartment [Curbed Boston]
· Our Renters Week 2013 archive [Curbed Boston]
How 'Bout a Private Fire Pit in Fort Point This Weekend?
The FP3 building at 346 Congress Street in Fort Point has some of the swankiest condos in that increasingly swanky neighborhood. Case in, um, point: Penthouse 3. The 2,178-square-foot 2-BR, 2.5-BA just dropped on the market and comes with a private deck that in turn comes with a gas-powered fire pit. The deck itself, too, runs to more than 1,100 square feet and there are floor-to-ceiling windows throughout much of the spread.
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This City's Development Boom Includes the Linx Complex
The clue in our latest Real Estate Jeopardy is: The Linx office complex, rendered above, is but the latest proposed development in this Greater Boston city.
Boston Fastest-Growing Mass. Town; Olympics Effort Chief
BOSTON—He replaces Suffolk Construction chief John Fish: "The board of the local Olympic bid committee, Boston 2024, is expected today to confirm Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca as its new chairman, putting the Bain Capital executive at the helm of an organization looking for a corporate turnaround, according to multiple people familiar with the group's plans." [Globe]
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MASS.-WIDE—Here's where it might be feeling a tad more crowded of late: "The municipality gaining the most people in Massachusetts between July 1, 2013, and July 1, 2014, was Boston whose population rose by 5,967 over the period. Boston was followed by Cambridge (1,962), Everett (1,121), Watertown (997) and Chelsea (980)." [Census]
What $1.5M Buys Along the Cape; Harvey Milk in Marble; More!
Let's check in with the sunniest blog in New England, Curbed Cape Cod.
CAPE COD—From Pocasset to PTown, here's what $1,500,000 buys on the Cape right now.
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TRURO—Squeeze into the above adorable cottage, all 192-square-feet of it, for $125K.
"I'm sure they will get an over asking price, given the size and location. That said, this is a pretty bland unit—'modern' only in iconography and appliances. Take away the robo-door (or whatever it is), the Sub-Zero refrigerator, and the multi-colored siding, and you're left with a structurally-boring, sterile box." —a reader on a Davis Square debut we described as "oh-so-modern"
Five Suburbs That Are Importing Boston's Urban Living
Here's the latest installment of Bates By the Numbers, a weekly feature by Boston real estate agent David Bates that drills down into the Hub's housing market to uncover those trends and people you would not otherwise notice. Follow him on Twitter and check out his ebook, CONTEXT 2015: 14 Hub Condo Markets
[The new Gables University Station in Westwood]
The 13th annual bus tour of the Hub sponsored by commercial real estate association NAIOP happened this week and focused on suburban properties that were being re-imagined and re-purposed. Recently, there has been a lot of hubbub about how everyone wants to live and work and play in the city, but as the bus convoy may have changed city-centric minds about the desirability and the quality of suburban properties.
Robert Byrne, a senior vice president at Transwestern and the event chair, told me, "Labor has never been so important in the real estate process and the modern tenant desires more than the traditional corporate office campus." To recruit and retain talent in today's market, commercial tenants want amenities and the amenities they want in the suburbs may sound a bit familiar: Exciting buildings, incredible views, mass transit options, and nearby restaurants and retail. Urban lifestyles are apparently being exported to suburban destinations.
Nobody Wants to Buy the Mansion From Scarface
The real life estate that played the role of a lifetime as Tony Montana's mansion in the 1983 movie Scarface hit the market last year asking $35 million, and was reportedly still asking that as of two months ago. The Neoclassical Santa Barbara (though the movie was set in Miami) El Fureidis ("Little Paradise") mansion has had no luck finding a buyer, however, and as Lighter Side of Real Estate points out, the listing just reappeared with a significantly reduced asking price, down to $17.8 million. Apparently, the owner, Russian billionaire Sergey Grishin, has lost faith in the property's cultural cache as a selling point. The listing doesn't even mention the movie anymore.
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