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New housing is in the works for downtown Quincy at a time when vacancy rates in the city are disturbingly low.  Quincy-based developer LBC Boston submitted plans earlier this year to build a six-story, 215-unit residential and retail building at 1562 and 1570 Hancock St., next to the developer’s Nova Suites and Nova Quincy apartments,…

Downtown Housing Expanding in the City of Presidents By Jonathan Miller and Andrian Shapiro | Special to Banker & Tradesman | Jan 24, 2021 The recipe for success in Quincy is patience. After a decade of planning and waiting, the revitalization of Quincy Center is well underway. More than 700 apartments and condos have opened in the…

By Steve Adams | Banker & Tradesman Staff | Nov 1, 2020 Margarita Kvacheva Senior vice president, LBC Boston Industry experience: 9 years Developer LBC Boston is seeking approval for the largest project yet to be approved under Boston’s two- year-old compact living pilot. The $140 million Allston Green project would replace seven buildings on Linden and Pratt streets…

Partners Properties LLC, a real estate development firm based in Allston, has proposed a 358-unit housing complex near the Boston Landing commuter rail station in Allston. Partners Properties has proposed a mix of 306 apartments and 52 condominiums across three buildings on Linden and Pratt streets in Allston. The development would span a combined 356,000…

With the acceptance of Quincy’s Urban Revitalization and Development Plan (URDP) and changes to the city’s zoning laws, transforming the city’s downtown into a place where people want to live, work, eat and shop is a top priority for city officials. Considered among the largest urban revitalization efforts in Massachusetts, the city is eyeing more than…

See more: https://nerej.com/2017-annual-review-jonathan-miller-of-lbc-boston   NEREJ - What was your most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2017? Jonathan Miller - In 2017, LBC Boston began work at 1500 Hancock St. in Quincy on the Nova Residences, a cornerstone project for the city’s downtown redevelopment plan. The 153,000 s/f mixed-used development provides continuity to this commercial corridor, as well as connectivity…

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QUINCY – One of the big Quincy Center apartment buildings approved this year will start to take shape next month. LBC Boston has secured financing from East boston Savings Bank for its 171-unit Nova Residences apartment project at 1500 Hancock St., and crews will begin to lay down the foundation in a couple of weeks, said…

The website "Building Design & Construction" says Nova Brighton Project "represent emerging trends and design innovations in the multifamily sector". BOSTON’S ‘NEXT TECH CENTER’ GAINS 80 RENTAL UNITS Shown here is the community/game room at Nova Residences, a new six-story, 68,000-sf apartment edifice in Brighton, Mass. A mix of 80 studios, lofts, and one- and two-bedroom…

Proudly LBC Boston is sponsoring the "2017 ANNUAL GALA: FIRE & ICE" of Brighton Main Streets. Brighton Main Streets is an association made up of volunteers who help to make Brighton a better community to live, work, shop and learn. Their volunteers make up three main committees of that work together to achieve their mission,  and they strive to…

Brighton, MA LBC Boston celebrated the grand opening of its first residential project in the city. Located at 1505 Commonwealth Ave., Nova Residences is a six-story, 68,000 s/f building that offers 80 residential units, with 10 of the units designated as affordable. Congressman Michael Capuano, governor Charlie Baker, and mayor Marty Walsh participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony on August 28 to mark the…

(Boston, MA, 08/28/17) Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Martin J. Walsh praised the redevelopment of a Brighton office building as an example of how Boston needs to address housing demand. The six-story Nova Residences on Commonwealth Avenue has 80 one- and two-bedroom units, including 10 affordable units, in an eight-story building that once housed Baker’s gubernatorial campaign…

QUINCY – Some ceremonial sledgehammer whacks through the window of what used to be The Half Door bar became the first visible changes to the spot that will hold a large Quincy Center apartment building. LBC Partners of Boston, the developers who plan to build 171 top-of-market apartments over 15,000 square feet of commercial space at…

QUINCY – Developers have scrapped the idea of building a seven-story hotel in the 1500 block of Hancock Street in Quincy Center in favor of constructing an apartment building there of the same size. LBC Partners of Boston presented to Quincy’s city council on Tuesday night a plan to build 171 apartments over 15,000 square feet…

QUINCY - The new year will be a pivotal one for Quincy Center, which in 2016 will experience more residential construction, a major change in traffic flow and several big decisions by the city council. In the coming weeks, Quincy developers Sean and Scott Galvin plan to start knocking down the old Woolworth department store building…

Peter O'Connell, Sean Galvin, and the development team of Alex Matov and Andrian Shapiro are the latest players joining the effort to revitalize Quincy Center, a goal that hit a major road block last year when Mayor Thomas Koch cut ties with the city's master development partner, Street-Works. One is a Quincy native who built the…

QUINCY – A Newton businessman has bought the former A.J. Wright building for $4.4 million – his fifth purchase of a Quincy Center building in the past three months. Adrian Shapiro, who runs several businesses in the Boston area and is a member of the nonprofit Russian Benevolent Society, now owns more than 4 acres of…