James Cronin

Banker & Tradesman Staff

James Cronin is a former Banker & Tradesman staff writer.
James Cronin can be reached at editorial@thewarrengroup.com

Chamber Chief Chats About Casinos

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.

Jackson Square Projects Move Forward

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.

Renderings Show Futuristic South Station

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.

BRA Approves BC Dorm, Southie Hotel

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.

NorthPoint Rises

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.

In Concrete Vs. Steel Battle, Concrete Winning

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.