The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

DND - Property Inventory

The Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) takes care of city owned property, including the maintanence of buildings and vacant land. This is a legacy dataset that provides information on these properties including the size, location, potential use, and more. Please see the current…

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
11
Keywords
development, housing, legacy portal, neighborhood, property
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/department-of-neighborhood-development-property-inventory

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
CSVreferenced135215b220dcdca4c3916ddc198329aae4846f08710bbd9da333b0679d1e9a0c17371fsource

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

ColumnTypeDescription
Parcel_IDtext
LotSizetext
PropertyTypetext
ZipCodetext
Neighborhoodtext
Potential Usetext
StreetNumtext
StreetNametext
StreetSuffixtext
Addresstext
Locationtext

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:department-of-neighborhood-development-property-inventory
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/department-of-neighborhood-development-property-inventory
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/department-of-neighborhood-development-property-inventory.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
department-of-neighborhood-development-property-inventory
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0