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Arx Urban’s co-living project at 525 Lincoln received approval from the Boston Planning and Development Agency Board and became the city’s first co-living project to be successfully permitted under Article 80.

Two developers have filed detailed plans with the BPDA for a five-story, 80-unit apartment building on Lincoln Street in Allston mostly aimed at people who don't mind living with roommates or who have no choice because they're suffocating under student-debt burdens, in rooms that in some cases could rent as low as $844 a month.

MassHousing is providing $2.1 million in affordable housing financing from the Agency’s Workforce Housing Initiative to support the development of 233 Hancock, a 36-unit housing community, Arx Urban. The MassHousing financing will help transform a pair of Dorchester automobile repair shops into 36 units of new mixed-income homes, including 21 units of new workforce housing.

On October 12, 2018, Mayor Martin J. Walsh welcomed the newly selected SPARK Boston Council to City Hall. The diverse 40-member group, which included Arx Urban team member, Peter McCawley, will spend the next 12 months working to continue to open up new lines of communication between young adults and leaders in City government.

MassDevelopment has hired a Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) fellow who will work to advance local redevelopment in a newly selected TDI District in Chelsea. Benjamin Moll and Daniel Moll of Arx Urban have been appointed to the TDI District’s Core Committee.

On December 12, Boston’s zoning board signed off on plans to redevelop two auto-body shops at 233 Hancock Street in Dorchester into a five-story complex with 36 apartments, 700 square feet of ground-floor retail space, and a 400 square foot gallery. There will also be 22 parking spaces in the new building’s street-level garage. The project, which developers Benjie and Danny Moll are backing and which will involve tearing down two billboards near the site, has already won Boston Planning and Development Agency approval.

The Boston Planning and Development Board last week approved a 36-unit mixed-use project at 233 Hancock Street. Developer Arx Urban has filed plans to construct a 29,465-square foot, five-story building on a Glover’s Corner site now occupied by two auto body repair shops. In addition to 36 units, along the streetscape, about 1,250 square feet of interior retail and gallery space will be curated by the Dorchester Arts Collaborative or a comparable community arts organization and 3,000 square feet of green space will be created for tenant's behind the building.

A proposal for a five-story, mixed-used building to replace an auto body shop on Hancock Street will get a public airing at a Boston Planning and Development Agency meeting next week. The development at 233 Hancock St. is being undertaken by Arx Urban, a real estate firm with a history of building workforce housing in Boston.

Boutique real estate developer and investor Arx Urban has acquired 299-309 Hancock Street, a 16,184 square foot mixed-use building located across from the upcoming 388,400 square foot DotBlock mixed-use development, for $2.8 million, or $173.01 per square foot.

Chin up, Dorchester. Two deals to redevelop the Boston Globe property may have fallen through, but investors are still bullish about what the future holds in the land of the triple-deckers. Transit-oriented multifamily projects such as the Hub25 apartments at Columbia Point are luring renters down the Red Line with discounts from downtown rents, prompting more developers to search for similar sites.