Half a Billion for South Station Tower and $405M on Park Drive: The Biggest Boston Permits of the Last Month
City permit records list five projects valued over $130 million signed off since Sept. 19, from a 432-unit Huntington Avenue tower to a theater in Allston.
You see the cranes. Here's the paperwork behind them. City of Boston permit records show the biggest-ticket approvals issued since Sept. 19.
Top of the list: 640-750 Atlantic Ave., South Station Tower, with a declared valuation of $531,845,387 on a certificate issued Sept. 22 for the base building core and shell up through the 52nd floor. That covers offices, retail, parking and multi-family condos, according to the record, and it says that certificate expires Dec. 22, 2026, pending completion.
Second: 421 Park Drive in the Fenway, $404,947,987, issued Oct. 16, for retail, offices, research and development, labs and a parking garage, basement through 13 floors.
Then 252 Huntington Ave., "Huntington Tower" in the record, at $166,732,282, covering 432 residential units across floors three through 34, issued Oct. 6. Same day, 1-9 Harbor Shore Drive in the Seaport got a temporary certificate, valued at $165,775,486, for 122 residential units plus shell space for commercial use and a future restaurant.
And over in Allston, 175 N. Harvard St. got one valued at $131,491,730, issued Oct. 7, for a theater with two performance spaces, rehearsal studios and offices.
One thing to keep straight: these are declared valuations on the permit filings, not what anybody's actually paid, and several of these are certificates closing out work that started years ago.
How we reported this
Boston Uncut queried the City of Boston's Approved Building Permits dataset on Analyze Boston, last updated Oct. 19, 2026, for permits with an issued date on or after Sept. 19, 2026, sorted by declared valuation. Descriptions, dates and dollar figures are quoted from the permit records.
