Massport’s purchase of 18 acres in South Boston is part of a 3,100-foot freight corridor designed to siphon trucks traveling to and from the Conley Container Terminal off residential streets.
An affiliate of Irvine-Calif.-based Griffin-American Healthcare REIT has acquired 18-48 Holland St. in Somerville from Kadima Medical Properteis for $50.5 million.
Five development projects, including a 230-room hotel at the Charlestown Navy Yard and three residential complexes, were approved by Boston Redevelopment Authority officials Thursday.
Woburn-based Tocci Building Cos. has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with The New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC).
Boston Cares, New England’s largest volunteer nonprofit agency, has signed a lease for 5,043 square feet at 90 Canal St. and will relocate its headquarters in April from 190 High St. in Boston’s Financial District.
A century-old East Boston warehouse originally built as peacoat factory to supply the U.S. Navy would be converted into a five-story boutique hotel under a developer’s plans for the one-acre property at 151 Porter St.
Waltham-based Vantage Builders Inc has been hired by Goldfish Swim School-Needham to construct a new facility at 45 Fourth Ave. in Needham.
New York-based KS Partners has purchased Connector Park, a pair of class A office buildings, for $14.6 million from Hudson Advisors of Dallas.
MassPort has acquired three parcels of land totaling nearly 18 acres in South Boston from the MBTA for $7 million.
A development group hopes to jump-start a long-stalled hotel project in Boston’s Theater District with revised plans for a 346-room “micro hotel” with smaller guest rooms and increasing the project’s height from 19 to 23 stories.
American Renal Assoc. has signed a 5,756-square-foot lease expansion for its U.S. headquarters at 500 Cummings Center in Beverly.
Dedham-based RK Centers has purchased a West Roxbury retail center for $5.1 million.
U.S. Realty Advisors has acquired 1 & 2 Federal St. in Billerica for $26 million from RREEF America.
Cornerstone Realty Capital arranged $1.3 for its client 117 Centre Street LLC for the purchase and renovation of a single-family property in Boston.
Vestmark has signed a lease renewal and expansion at 100 Quannapowitt Parkway in Wakefield, which serves as its U.S. headquarters.
Boston-based private equity firm Rockpoint Group has an agreement to buy 75-105 Federal St., an 800,000-square-foot office complex in the Financial District, from Chicago-based Pearlmark Real Estate Partners.
The initial phase of Somerville’s Union Square redevelopment could include 840 apartments, a 200-room hotel and 600,000 square feet of office space on two parcels abutting the new MBTA Green Line station, according to a presentation by master developer US2.
It’s hard to find a more segregated housing market in the country than Greater Boston, which is right up there with Birmingham and New Orleans. And if the conservatives on the Supreme Court have their way, it’s likely we will remain as segregated as the capital of Alabama for years to come.
A handful of developers could be required to chip in for repairs to Boston’s broken Northern Avenue bridge in exchange for approval of skyline-altering projects on the waterfront.
Quincy-based Elaine Realty has sold a 21,000-square-foot commercial property in Abington for $2.6 million.
