Boston – Engineering firm VHB announced it is currently underway on nine multi-residential and mixed-use projects in Boston. The developments are all happening outside the downtown/Seaport/Back Bay trifecta. Representatives of VHB say they are instead located in underutilized and historically industrial stretches of South Boston, Allston, Dorchester, Charleston, and other neighborhoods beyond the city center, aiming to enhance community connectivity and local access to affordable and market-rate housing, retail, transit, and jobs, and that VHB’s land development, transportation, and environmental engineering professionals are bringing developers the critical services, understanding of local context and regulations, and know-how needed to advance these projects through complex permitting processes and design reviews.