A current view of development filings with enough source detail to show a mapped address, dated status and source ID—not a count of every construction activity in the neighborhood.
A neighborhood-level summary of source-qualified DOB records in the current published snapshot.
Qualified records152
Active-status filings125
New-building filings41
Latest status changeOct 2, 2026
Reading the current snapshot
The strongest visible signal is in the filing mix—not a forecast.
Street Futures currently identifies 152 DOB records in Melrose with mapped addresses, dated status fields and official record IDs. 41 are classified as new buildings, while 4 carry a full demolition signal. The remainder primarily describe alterations to existing buildings.
Of the records in this snapshot, 122 publish an approved or permit-stage status. Approval is an administrative milestone; it does not confirm that work has started. Open each filing below for its dated status, identifiers and original source.
Living here
The housing record on Melrose.
Of the 42 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 15 carry at least one — 36% — and 14 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.
Open violations
572
Immediately hazardous
155
Addresses checked
42
The Housing Maintenance Code is about living in a building — heat, hot water, pests, paint — and is a different thing from the Department of Buildings violations elsewhere on this page, which are about building work. The two most common open violations in the whole city are both paperwork, so a high count is a reason to read the classes rather than a verdict. What each class means Counted from the extract accessed Oct 3, 2026.
Verified filings
Recent records for Melrose.
Ordered by the latest status date published in the source snapshot.
