The Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Biophotonics Laboratory at Tufts University’s engineering school is growing to accommodate expanded research into the use of silk as a material for photonics and high-tech applications.
To say Glenn Verrette knows commercial real estate in Boston is an understatement. With 26 years of experience under his belt in the city, he’s helped work on deals from one end of the metro area to the other. He started his career with Colliers, moving to Equity Office Properties Trust, FHO Partners and now Cassidy Turley, which purchased FHO. He sat down recently with Banker & Tradesman to talk about trends in the city’s downtown office market. One of those trends includes younger companies like PayPal and Puma moving into the heart of the city from elsewhere.
An industrial section of Cambridge linking Central Square to Kendall Square is slowly becoming an extension of the technology and life sciences hub, which has some worried the funkier Central neighborhood will start looking more and more like its comparatively “vanilla†neighbor.
Law firm Kearney, Donovan & McGee P.C. and The Strategy Group, a public affairs and community relations firm, have restructured a shared, 6,760-square-foot office lease at 40 Court St. in Boston’s Financial District.
RK Centers has paid $6.35 million for a freestanding Stop & Shop in Foxboro.
Cornerstone Realty Capital has arranged $26.9 million in financing for developer The Mount Vernon Co. to build 104 rental units in Boston’s Allston neighborhood.
Global law firm Goodwin Procter LLP has finalized a lease to occupy 360,000 square feet of office space in Boston’s burgeoning Seaport district.
Today’s most innovative software developers, technology-forward commercial real estate brokerages and other office users aren’t exactly breaking new ground with their wide-open office layouts, where the walls have tumbled and collaboration is like the word of the day from Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
Northeastern University could get the green light to build 600 new student beds in the next five years if the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) approves the college’s master plan for development tonight at a public hearing.
The small towns surrounding the mixed-use retail development Sam Park is building in Littleton have grown significantly in the last two decades, showing the kind of strength needed to support the site as a retail destination.
The Avenues Group LLC, an affiliate of True North Capital Partners, has purchased 116 apartment units in Boston and Somerville for $21.25 million.
MIT solar stylists have created prototype seats that harness the power of the sun to power-up the smartphones of passersby looking to rest and recharge.
Global asset management firm The Carlyle Group has acquired Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management LLC, another real estate manager with more than $2.6 billion in capital commitments.
When you ask him about making a collection of office parks in Newton and Needham the next center for high tech innovation in Massachusetts, Greg Reibman is a believer.
Biomeasure Inc. will abandon its Milford location for the proximity to hospitals and research institutions offered by Cambridge’s Kendall Square.
Monster Worldwide has leased 175,000 square feet of space in Biogen Idec’s Weston headquarters, absorbing offices the pharmaceutical company is vacating to move operations to Kendall Square in Cambridge.
High tech firm Cavium Inc. has leased 103,100 square feet of office and lab space in Marlborough, expanding its footprint by 42,163 square feet.
The employees inhabiting offices in Boston’s Landmark Center feel they are working in a confusing fortress where pedestrian access is limited and the elevator accessing some upper floors is well hidden in a second-floor eating area.
RedTail Solutions, a cloud services provider, has relocated its headquarters within Westborough.
A leading construction industry analytics provider is predicting total U.S. construction starts for 2014 will rise 9 percent to $555.3 billion, higher than the 5 percent increase to $508 billion estimated for 2013.
