Earlier this month, HBI was honored to receive a very special award from the Boston Fire Historical Society. HBI has been working with the Historical Society since beginning the preservation and renovation of the Eustis Street Fire House several years ago. Through use of their...
Our guest blogger this week is Kate Gilmore, HBI intern and student at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Kate has done extensive research on air rights and how they play into the preservation of architecture. In 1968, the owners of Grand Central Station...
The new Dudley Municipal Complex is well underway, including restoration of the historic Ferdinand?s Furniture Store, built in 1895 and once the largest retail furniture store in New England. While the project is a major development and public policy accomplishment of the Menino Administration, implementation...
A recent court decision on investor risk for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall has called the investment structures of the Federal Historic Tax Credits. Matt Welch describes the problem and potential implications for preservation projects and the credits in part three of our series on...
Non-profit developers like HBI use historic tax credits regularly for rehabilitation projects, which seems unlikely since we don?t pay taxes. HBI Legal fellow Matt Welch answers Tax Credit Question #2 in this blog postBecause non-profit developers like HBI have no federal income tax liability to...
HBI is fortunate to have Matthew Welch, a recent graduate of the Boston University School of law, working here since September as a university-sponsored legal intern. Among several projects he?s working on, Matt has been helping HBI formulate policies and procedures for utilization of the...
Photo courtesy of the Boston Globe HBI and its partner, Roslindale Village Main Street (RVMS) have secured a purchase and sale agreement for the Higgins Funeral Home and related parcels of land, allowing for a larger mixed-use residential and commercial development project that includes redevelopment of...
HBI set out to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver rating for its rehabilitation of H.H. Richardson?s Hayden Building. We enlisted Conservation Services Group to guide us through this process. Conservation Services Group?s Consulting and Construction Services group works with owners,...
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