Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and multifamily and economic development zoning in the South End, around Union Park and SoWa.
Search this neighborhoodThe South End was built on filled land beginning in the 1850s and is known for its Victorian brick bowfront rowhouses arranged around landscaped squares such as Union Park, Blackstone Square and Franklin Square. It is a designated landmark district. Tremont Street and Washington Street are its main commercial corridors, and Villa Victoria is a long-established resident-developed housing community.
The Boston Center for the Arts on Tremont Street, the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Washington Street, dedicated in 1875, and the SoWa Open Market on Harrison Avenue are among its landmarks. About a quarter of the neighborhood, around Harrison Avenue and Albany Street, is zoned Economic Development Area. Bus routes and Silver Line buses run through the neighborhood.
CivicScout tracks Boston Police reported incidents, Vision Zero traffic crash records, and open building and property violation cases within a half mile of any searched address in the South End. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity is mostly renovation of rowhouses and conversions, plus new mixed-use and laboratory construction around Harrison Avenue and Albany Street.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →The zoning layer shows about 36 percent of the South End as Multifamily Residential and about 24 percent as Economic Development Area, with mixed Multifamily and Local Services districts along the corridors.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →Location reports for the South End addresses surface Inspectional Services building permits, open 311 requests, food establishment inspections, and the applicable Boston zoning subdistrict.
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