Michael Hoban — a real estate writer for the Urban Land Institute and the Real Reporter and a former reporter at the Boston Business Journal — offered a perspective on the Austin Street project that hasn’t received much focus in a TAB Op-Ed column from last week. 

While opponents of the proposed Austin Street project have managed to groundlessly demonize Austin Street Partners as “for-profit, luxury housing” developers, perhaps it would be wise to take a closer look at the track record of the entity that is responsible for the design of the project – Oaktree Development.

Read the whole thing here.