Nine Gateway Cities will receive a combined $390,000 in MassDevelopment grants for programs ranging from lease subsidies to facade improvements designed to help downtown business districts bounce back from the COVID-19 business downturn.
A projected 18 million square feet of lab space is scheduled for completion in Greater Boston in 2023, potentially tempering the skyrocketing rent increases being driven by the life science industry’s space demand.
Boston’s Ritz-Carlton hotel reopens on Thursday with new promotional packages designed to capture the all-important leisure travel market.
With ridership creeping up to its highest levels since the pandemic began, the MBTA will boost frequency on its subway system and more than two dozen bus routes next month, officials announced Monday.
Lamplighter Brewing Co. will open a tap room and production space at Cambridge Crossing this summer after revising plans in the wake of the pandemic.
With the mask mandate going away, it’s getting hard to get back to normal, at least when it comes to our social lives.
Masks will still be required for now in all indoor public places, at all events and outdoors when social distancing is not possible in Massachusetts, despite new guidance from the Centers from Disease Control
Fans of amusement parks and road races in Massachusetts are among those who can begin enjoying loosened pandemic restrictions starting Monday.
Boston Medical Center is planning a new 14-story research building on its South End campus to support its health equity program’s goal that patients are well represented in clinical studies.
Institutional investors rank Boston as the second-most desirable U.S. market for investment in 2021 and the only non-Sunbelt metro in the top four.
With the state on track to reach its goal of fully vaccinating 4.1 million residents by early June, Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts would begin to dial back its reliance on mass vaccination sites and increase vaccine distribution to regional sites, mobile clinics and primary care providers to reach people who have not yet received the vaccine.
The Massachusetts economy grew at a much faster pace than the national economy in the first quarter and the economic analysts at MassBenchmarks see that trend continuing over the coming months.
A 500,000-square-foot life science tower under construction in the Fenway has serious interest from tenants for 84 percent of the building just three months after its acquisition by Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
Daily occupancy at downtown Boston office buildings increased to approximately 11 percent at the end of March as companies resumed a modicum of normalcy amid the vaccine rollout.
With her specialty in interior design, TRIA Architects’ Marilyn Shen says she spends the vast majority of her time anticipating people’s needs and likes. That emphasis has taken on a paramount role in her new position as the Boston-based firm’s director of integrated workplace design.
ZoomInfo employees will return to the office in a hybrid workspace model this summer after the firm signed a 100,000-square-foot lease at Hobbs Brook Real Estate’s 275 Wyman St. property, with plans to expand to 226,000 square feet.
The number of new daily cases of COVID-19 continues to top 2,000 as Massachusetts struggles to tamp down the disease despite increasing numbers of vaccines administered.
Nearly 1.5 million people in Massachusetts are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and almost 3 million vaccine doses have been administered here, but a potentially more contagious mutant form of the virus first identified in Brazil is now spreading through the state.
Cambridge-based biotech investor Flagship Pioneering has picked Somerville’s Boynton Yards to establish a life science research cluster, leasing 208,000-square-foot lease for a group of its companies at Leggat McCall Properties’ 101 South St. development.
A prominent Harvard epidemiologist says the state is in a “race” to vaccinate residents as more highly-contagious strains of COVID-19 begin to spread. The most recent national seven-day average of new cases, at 60,000 per day, is up 10 percent over the prior seven-day period, the CDC says.
