The Boston Planning and Development Agency board on Thursday approved $1.05 billion worth of real estate development projects across the city, including several large projects in Allston/Brighton such as an apartment tower on the site of the former Boston Skating Club site and a 12-story laboratory facing the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The board also gave its final designation to Nubian Ascends Partners LLC to create a roughly 390,000-square-foot mixed-use hub at the former Blair’s Foodland store in Roxbury, which will include a life-science training center, artist housing, cultural hall and community center, and a parking garage. The BPDA released an RFP for the nearly 2-acre surface parking lot in 2019, and the minority-led Nubian Ascends development consortium got tentative designation the following December.
The group has partnered with the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of…
