James Cronin
Banker & Tradesman StaffJames Cronin is a former Banker & Tradesman staff writer.
by James Cronin | Oct 27, 2013
Diane Modica knows East Boston. Modica, an attorney who moonlights as president of the neighborhood’s chamber of commerce, has lived there for her entire life. She has been one of the strongest voices in support of bringing a casino resort to Suffolk Downs. Modica sat down with Banker & Tradesman to discuss a gambling operation’s impacts on her community and applying her experiences to the casino battle.
by James Cronin | Oct 27, 2013
The effort to heal Boston’s Jackson Square after entire swaths of the neighborhood were bulldozed for a failed highway project 40 years ago is about to take another leap forward.
by James Cronin | Oct 25, 2013
The owners of Modern Pastry in Boston’s North End have paid $5.5 million to purchase the property adjacent to its Hanover Street address and expand the company’s delectable operations.
by James Cronin | Oct 21, 2013
Gravitas Capital Partners LLC has purchased a Middleborough office building for $6.1 million.
by James Cronin | Oct 21, 2013
Light-flooded, clean spaces open up to new train tracks in renderings that show what the state transportation department has in mind for an updated South Station transportation hub in Boston.
by James Cronin | Oct 20, 2013
The Greater Boston area has entered one of the great building booms of the region’s modern history.
by James Cronin | Oct 17, 2013
The American Red Cross has renewed its New England regional headquarters lease in Dedham, but is downsizing in a big way.
by James Cronin | Oct 16, 2013
Yuengling is locking into a plan to finally bring its popular lager and other beers back to Massachusetts early next year for the first time since it exited the market two decades ago.
by James Cronin | Oct 15, 2013
A Boston real estate developer with an eye toward adding value to properties once it purchases them has paid $43.3 million to purchase an office building in Boston’s Seaport District.
by James Cronin | Oct 13, 2013
What happens when a real estate developer forces work on a project to stop in its tracks?
by James Cronin | Oct 9, 2013
Boston College got the green light Tuesday to build a 490-bed residence hall on its Brighton campus, part of a far-reaching plan to expand the college’s facilities in the neighborhood.
by James Cronin | Oct 7, 2013
A developer has proposed constructing a $116 million manufacturing and R&D facility on a vacant parcel in Boston’s Marine Industrial Park.
by James Cronin | Oct 6, 2013
Sparkling new condos and apartments under construction boast of the promise of NorthPoint, the former industrial swath of East Cambridge that is being slowly reborn as a thriving portion of the city.
by James Cronin | Oct 2, 2013
Real estate developer Trinity Financial has struck a deal to begin building a $190 million apartment project along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston’s Bulfinch Triangle, with construction likely to begin next week.
by James Cronin | Oct 1, 2013
Winthrop Realty Trust, which owns and manages commercial real estate across the country, has netted $30.2 million from a recent public stock offering.
by James Cronin | Oct 1, 2013
Depending on how long the federal government shutdown lasts, the uncertainty resulting from the federal furloughs could have serious impacts on commercial projects in the Bay State.
by James Cronin | Oct 1, 2013
Micozzi Management, which owns and manages apartments across Greater Boston, has paid $7 million for a multifamily property in Newton, about $280,000 per unit.
by James Cronin | Sep 29, 2013
When the decision makers behind some of the biggest multifamily development projects in Boston consider what their signature towers will be made of, they increasingly lean toward concrete over the steel that long dominated the local construction industry.
by James Cronin | Sep 27, 2013
The developer of a proposed apartment complex in Jamaica Plain has increased the number of large units to make the project more family-friendly, but is still under the mark neighbors want to see for affordability.
by James Cronin | Sep 26, 2013
Construction on the long-awaited redevelopment of Lovejoy Wharf in Boston adjacent to the TD Garden is expected to begin next fall.