The past year has seen impressive results for suburban retail in Greater Boston, with core markets like Burlington, Braintree, Framingham and Peabody continuing to dominate. However, it’s also been a year of transformation for the market.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh wants to give renters new protections against eviction in the city’s ever-inflating real estate market, but the proposal is just one of a series of anti-displacement policies up for consideration in the coming months.
PwC and the Urban Land Institute have published their 2017 outlook on national real estate investment and development trends.
Retailers typically look for locations with plenty of foot traffic, good highway access and convenient public transit connections. Toss those considerations out the window when looking for a marijuana dispensary site
The agency that’s responsible for managing Boston’s building boom has a new name, logo and set of strategies for connecting with its constituencies. But as it sheds its 59-year-old handle in favor of the Boston Planning & Development Agency, it’s facing a fresh round of questions about
Sal Lupoli is sold on the future of the Merrimack Valley real estate market. The founder of the Sal’s Pizza and Salvatore’s restaurant chains has cooked up a second career as a real estate developer, restoring the massive Riverwalk mill complex in Lawrence into a multitenant office and medical complex.
Millennium Partners has been designated as developer of the Winthrop Square garage site at 115 Federal St. in Boston.
The old adage that “time is money” is particularly true when undertaking the permitting process for new development.
Today, geotechnical exploration is taking advantage of data mining concepts to predict subsurface conditions. Traditional methods of drilling soil borings are still necessary,
Boston’s hot real estate market is challenging for everyone, no matter which side of the transaction table you’re sitting. Properties and parcels are fetching top dollar, and sales and leases have become incredibly competitive to snag. How are community development corporations faring when there is such a premium for space and resources?
Twenty years ago, Sudbury officials probably would have bemoaned the loss of a major employer like Raytheon and the prospect of 50 acres of light industrial land along Route 20 sitting vacant for perhaps years.
Working with commercial real estate tenants on their space needs didn’t used to be this complicated.
For Revere’s largest development in decades, 2016 is shaping up as a potential tipping point. Two luxury apartment complexes containing 424 units are the first phase of the 1.4-million-square-foot Waterfront Square, which is designed to fill in nearly 9 acres of parking lots next to the MBTA’s Wonderland station. Up to 900 market-rate housing units could be built in all, along with shops and cafés.
Short-term, the Brits and their boneheaded and oh-so-Trumpian vote to give the finger to the European Union could give a surprise boost Greater Boston’s booming real estate market.
Add Medford to the list of inner-ring Boston suburbs where development is starting to spike.
This may turn out to be the most competitive spring market the Bay State has ever seen. No longer just a downtown Boston and Cambridge phenomenon, bidding wars are spreading to middle-class suburbs and working-class urban neighborhoods alike, brokers say. But that’s not all. Buyers are not just
Swedish developer Skanska has a rapidly rising profile in Greater Boston as it completes trophy office buildings such as 101 Seaport, which recently sold for a record $452 million. Those projects tend to overshadow the work of its civil engineering unit, Skanska USA Civil. Since opening a Cambridge office in 2013, it’s participated in some of the region’s largest infrastructure projects, including the Longfellow Bridge rehabilitation project and reconfiguration of the Kendall Generating Station steam plant in Cambridge. Paul Pedini, who heads the Cambridge office, is already looking ahead to additional opportunities for Skanska at major projects like the Allston I-90 Interchange redesign.
