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The Development Database is a crowdsourced collection of recent ongoing and completed commercial and residential developments in Massachusetts.
We're hard at work developing a new release that gives planners, developers, and enthusiasts advanced tools to find and understand developments, as well as the context in which they are built.
The Development Database is very important to the work we do at MAPC. High-quality data gathered from the Development Database fuels our regional projections, which helps us understand the future of the Metro Boston region. Municipalities and other public agencies use MAPC's projections to set housing and economic development goals. The data you contribute here will contribute to a better Metro Boston region for everyone.
- 🔍 Search for developments quickly and easily. Start with one of our suggested searches to quickly find frequently searched-for developments. Then, export your developments as a spreadsheet or summary document.
- 🌇 Understand the neighborhood through neighborhood context, including demographics and transportation information such as income breakdowns, public transit access, average parking ratios, and walkability scores.
- 📬 Subscribe to developments, neighborhoods, or saved searches, and receive notifications when the developments or areas that interest you change.
- 🏤 Create organization pages to keep all of your team's developments in one place.
- 🏆 Gain reputation by contributing developments, improving data quality, or moderating developments.
- 📌 Claim developments that your development team is working on in the real world.
- 🚩 Flag developments that you think need moderator attention.
- 📆 Longitudinal area studies that show a picture of the recent past and near future.
- 🌎 Opportunity identification to help developers discover potential opportunities.
🅿️ Parking utilization data, to help developers support a right-sized parking ratio for their proposed developments.- 🔗 Integrations with other development & property web services, as well as common applications like Slack.
↔️ Public API and Webhooks, to enable custom integrations.
If you have a GitHub account, get in touch with us via Gitter chat.
Are you interested in learning more about the Development Database? Contact Matt Cloyd, Web Developer at mcloyd@mapc.org.
Is there a feature you'd like to see? Would you like to get involved in a fairly complex Rails application? First, get in touch on Gitter, and we'll go from there!