Commonwealth Honors College Complex bottom right The Commonwealth Honors College Residential Complex, a $192 million mixed residential ...

UMass Southwest = 5,5000 beds.  Originally a 6th tower was planned, but never built Couldn't agree more with Fearing Street residen...

 Gordon Hall, 418 North Pleasant Street Proposed Crotty Hall (from Northwest perspective) A couple years ago A mherst R edevelopme...

RKG VP Kyle Talente appears before Planning Board Housing & Shelter Committees As has become the routine with any public meeting re...

Steering Committee co-chairs Nancy Buffone, David Ziomek (left) The Town Gown Steering Committee had their final meeting of the year Tu...

Boltwood Place under construction August, 2011 Boltwood Place, Amherst's first downtown tall building in more than a generation, wi...

Revive the Gateway Project Actually they are already coming (2,000 over the next seven years) so the need for additional student housing...

  Coming Soon:  Commonwealth College 1,500 beds In his May 15 appearance before Amherst Town Meeting to pitch the joint town/gown stud...

Just to underscore the difference between the venerable Daily Hampshire Gazette and little ol' me I offer the following:  nine years ...

The J oint C apital P lanning C ommittee voted 7-1 this morning to approve $3,153,200 in recommendation to the Town Manager that backtrac...

So it will be interesting to see (and hear) how the immediate neighbors living near our economic Leviathan react to the news that Lincoln ...

10/29 storm: overall story of the year Since all politics is local and Only In Amherst is a hyper-local news blog, I'm duty bound to do...

Amherst Town Meeting members call for "tally vote" by holding up cards Despite 80% support from the Select Board and 60% of Town M...

The canary in the coal mine briefly quivered, but survived, as Amherst Town Meeting passed article #5 by a 90 to 67 vote, providing $40,000 ...

SB:Jim Wald, Diana Stein, Alisa Brewer, Aaron Hayden, Stephanie O'Keeffe The Rubicon has been crossed, the newspaper put to bed, as the ...

The Zoning sub-committee of the Planning Board voted 2-0 one absent to recommend to the full Planning Board "Form Based Zoning" f...

It will be interesting to watch how UMass deals with NIMBYs this time around--after the Gateway setback--on the solar farm project announced...

The Gateway Corridor Project, born September 1, 2010, died Wednesday August 4, just shy of age one, after contracting an all too typical cas...

Former Frat Row , forever UMass The Gateway Project, so named because it hopes to transform the main entryway to UMass while seamlessly conn...

Maybe it was the nearly 100 degree heat outside Town Hall as tonight's A mherst R edevelopment A uthority meeting concerning the joint e...