Greater Boston is pocketed with major developments that promise to transform huge swaths of underutilized and abandoned property into commercial and residential hubs. Pictured is a rendering of the planned 5.2 million-square-foot NorthPoint development in East Cambridge.
For a region of the country that’s not supposed to have enough land available for mega-development projects, the Boston area sure seems to have a lot of mega-developments under way these days.
Granted, Massachusetts isn’t Texas, known for its huge swaths of affordable, undeveloped land that’s a main linchpin of its economic attraction and success.
But developers and policy makers agree that Greater Boston today is seeing a somewhat remarkable number of huge private-sector projects, buoyed by public-sector partners, that are transforming the local economic landscape.
Topping the local list of mega-developments is Boston’s Seaport District, also known as the …
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