Catherine Carlock

After dueling "compromise" proposals neither Mayor Wu nor business leaders sound inclined to move further on tax plan.

With a deadline fast approaching to send out the city's next round of tax bills, Boston business leaders and the Wu administration remained at odds Monday over the mayor's contentious plan to hike commercial property tax rates and ease a sharp potential hike on homeowners and landlords.

Their plan would hike tax rates on commercial property for three years in bid to balance city budget without sharp tax increase on residential taxpayers.

Tax rates on commercial property would be hiked for three years to avoid sharp tax increase on residential taxpayers

The measure is intended to increase commercial real estate tax rates and prevent a spike in residential taxes.

One major reason for the optimism? The Federal Reserve.

Developers are hoping that lower interest rates will make much-needed apartment projects easier to finance.

Even in deep-blue Boston, the cost of beans (and so much more) was on many voters’ minds Tuesday.

The cell production company was set to move into new building by year's end, but will instead put it up for sublease

After nearly five-years of remote meetings, city development board is back in-person.