Welcome to Mitchell L. Fischman Consulting LLC (“MLF Consulting”)

MLF Consulting has helped Cruz Companies on several projects in Roxbury including a prominent mixed-use residential/commercial development in Nubian Square. MLF Consulting long-standing relationships with staff in the Planning Department and other city agencies has been critical to these projects advancing in the permitting pipeline. Cruz hopes to continue to work with MLF Consulting on future projects.

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In 2022, Sing Ming Chan Revocable Trust selected MLF Consulting to initiate permitting on a mixed-use multi-family residential development in South Boston. MLF was very successful in coordinating the permitting team while working with our project counsel to move the project quickly through the Article 80 process. In 2023, on our next project for a hotel in Chinatown, we brought on MLF Consulting to also manage the permitting while the South Boston development was still in permitting.

Our multi-family redevelopment at 142-146 St. Mary’s Street presented complicated permitting challenges as it was located on the Town of Brookline line, adjacent to the MBTA D-Line tracks, and within the close-knit Audubon Circle neighborhood. MLF Consulting worked effectively with the development team to navigate the project through the Article 80 process, and we would retain them again in the future.

Our 1690-1700 Hyde Park Avenue mixed-use residential/multi-family residential development represented a pioneer effort to bring new housing on an industrial site to Hyde Park. We were impressed with MLF Consulting and the coordination provided to manage Article 80 permitting and would retain them again in the future.

We have used MLF Consulting on several Brighton residential and mixed-use projects and have appreciated MLF’s ability to successfully bring permitting teams together to allow our developments to achieve their completion deadlines. Mitch Fischman, its principal, works well with staff at not only the Boston Planning and other city departments but with State agencies involved in the permitting reviews. I certainly would retain MLF Consulting again in the future.

We own a commercial occupied site in the Upham Corner commercial corridor that we asked MLF Consulting to help steer our proposed redevelopment through the Small Project review process with the BPDA for a mixed-use, multi-family/commercial project. MLF met its proposed Article 80 schedule of 9 months for BPDA approval and we were very happy with the outcome.

MLF Consulting helped us secure complicated Article 80 permitting approvals for the redevelopment of a commercial site in Brighton’s Western Avenue corridor to a mixed-use, multi-family residential/commercial development. Working with our project counsel and a team of consultants, MLF successfully achieved planning and city department staff requirements based on the adopted Western Avenue Corridor Study. I would use MLF Consulting again.

Our project at 554-562 Columbia Road in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner neighborhood had challenges because of limited vehicle access and the need to incorporate a historic building into our proposal. MLF Consulting helped assemble a permitting team and efficiently completed the required Article 80 filings. I would be happy to retain MLF Consulting again for other Boston projects.

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Walcott Corporation has worked with MLF Consulting on both Boston and Newton projects, requiring significant permitting reviews. We have been very happy with MLF’s ability to complete permitting in a timely and professional manner. Mitch Fischman directed all the permitting and had a good handle on what was needed to secure the approvals needed for our projects.
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"When we purchased the previously approved but stalled development project at 99 Tremont Street in Brighton’s Oak Square neighborhood, there were a number of project changes that needed to be resubmitted to gain final BRA permitting approval. As the project approvals no longer met code requirements after many years of no development activity, we needed to essentially re-permit the project through the Article 80 “Notice of Project Change” process. MLF Consulting was vital in this effort by assisting us assemble a First-Rate team that had worked closely with the Brighton community, and successfully directed all aspects of the permitting for this condominium project thru securing final building permit. The project is now occupied and the units 100% sold. We are using MLF Consulting again on the permitting effort for an adjacent project because they are thorough in their permitting strategy and understand how to successfully secure approvals and permits in Boston."

"I was able to permit 320 Summer Street in the Fort Point Channel by using MLF Consulting to meet my deadline with a major client who was relocating from a Boston suburb to Fort Point Channel. Mitch Fischman met my deadline by helping to secure the necessary project permits so construction could commence within 5-1/2 months which included reviews by the local historic district commission, BRA design review, and the Boston Public Improvements Commission. He was terrific."

"MLF Consulting was successful in getting our multi-family residential development in West Roxbury permitted by the BRA/BPDA and the Boston Parks Commission within six months. At project commencement, MLF Consulting identified a schedule for the permitting which has been followed and the aggressive timeline proposed has been met. Work was undertaken to secure permits needed for final building permit, which was being overseen by MLF Consulting, and the building at 1235 VFW Parkway has been successfully occupied. I am using MLF Consulting again on the permitting for an adjacent multi-family development."

"MLF Consulting helped navigate the Article 80 Large Project Review Process through the BPDA, by organizing a large team of consultants, and by setting and keeping an aggressive schedule. Mitch Fischman was an important part of a large team that worked on securing permits for 200 Old Colony Avenue for a mixed-use development in the South Boston neighborhood."

"I have known the principal of MLF Consulting, Mitch Fischman, for several years, and am pleased that I was able to use him for the permitting of 1550 Soldiers Field Road and 21 Soldiers Field Place in Brighton. This was a complicated development with difficult permitting as the inclusionary housing was permitted offsite on a nearby property. MLF Consulting was successful in getting us to a point of BPDA/BRA approval within 9 months. The project is now under construction, and would very much like to use MLF Consulting again if we develop another property in Boston."

"We worked with MLF Consulting on an Article 80 large project review filing for a new multi-family residential development at 3200 Washington Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood, This project also required the permitting and selection by the City’s Department of Neighborhood Development on a building for additional affordable housing at 31 Montebello Road.. Mitch Fischman helped us assemble the permitting team, navigate thru the Boston Civic Design Commission review process and to secure our BPDA approvals within 6-months for the new development. MLF Consulting worked well with our team and closely worked with the BPDA project management staff to secure our approvals."

"We were able to secure BPDA/BRA permits within six months for 11-26 Heron Street, a two-building, multi-family residential development in West Roxbury, with the project expecting to commence construction by the end of 2019. We have confidence in MLF Consulting and the team they assembled to get us thru the entire permitting process before securing building permits from the Boston Inspectional Services Department. I am hoping to use their services again on another nearby project in West Roxbury."

"MLF Consulting helped us secure BPDA Article 80 permits for a multi-family residential development at 20 West 5th Street in the South Boston neighborhood that required complicated vehicular access and massing conforming to new zoning being considered for South Boston’s Dorchester Avenue “corridor:. MLF Consulting managed all aspects of the permitting process that led to BPDA Board approval within seven months."