A downturn in demand for an English language school’s program in Boston’s Leather District catalyzed a potential conversion into housing. Two developers submitted applications this week to the Boston Planning Department to participate in the program, totaling 68 units.
After receiving $25 million in incentives from the Healey administration to create 1,250 new jobs, Boston Dynamics signed a 323,000-square-foot lease at BXP’s Reservoir Place property in Waltham.
A legacy of distrust gave way to optimism about the birth of a new life science industry cluster at the ceremonial opening of Harvard University’s Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
The latest partnership between the developers who bought the former Barnes & Noble property in Downtown Crossing is the acquisition of a 151,163-square-foot office building in the Financial District.
Statewide rent control won’t be decided at the ballot in November following a Supreme Judicial Court ruling striking down the language submitted by supporters as unconstitutional.
A Watertown-based biotech company leased 128,000 square feet for its new headquarters at Innovation Park, IQHQ’s 340,000-square-foot campus that offers turnkey biomanufacturing space in Andover.
Following an ill-timed development boom, nearly half of the recent lab projects in Greater Boston are now controlled by lenders, according to industry research.
Redevelopment of the former Boston Edison power plant property in South Boston is expected to begin with residential buildings, in a change reflecting weak demand for commercial space.
Vacant commercial buildings in Cambridge Highlands have been acquired by a nonprofit housing developer that plans to propose a 100-percent affordable project.
A New York City-based real estate investor acquired a Woburn property as part of its strategy of seeking small-bay buildings in supply-constrained markets.
A Middlesex Superior Court judge supported The Hanover Co.’s seven-year-long attempt to build a 180-unit apartment complex in Weston.
Beacon Bank provided $44.5 million in construction financing for a 145-unit suburban apartment project approved under the MBTA Communities Act.
A Wellesley developer has redesigned plans for a Jamaica Plain monastery property following opposition from the Arnold Arboretum.
Sixteen Penny is set to file plans with the Boston Planning Department this week to demolish the monastery, and construct a 5-story, 190,000-square-foot apartment and condominium building in its place.
Move-ins are beginning at the first project completed under a Cambridge zoning ordinance designed to encourage all-affordable housing developments.
The leader of a Boston-based nonprofit envisions modular-built projects as a potential solution to the missing middle housing shortage, but there’s a catch: it will require a local landowner to provide a half-acre site at low cost to make the numbers work.
Redevelopment of the state-owned Hurley-Lindemann complex in Boston’s West End was envisioned as a new, billion-dollar life science cluster before economic headwinds throttled down demand for lab space. Now, the Healey administration is relaunching its efforts to find a private developer for the 6.5 acre property, with a goal of creating “hundreds of housing units” including a potential office-to-residential conversion.
A mixed-use portfolio in Newton Centre is hitting the market for the first time in decades, offering an opportunity to acquire nearly 190,000 square feet of retail and office space in the heart of the busy village center.
The 12-story office building at 18 Tremont St. was acquired by Boston-based Kendall Capital. Newburyport-based Institution for Savings provided the loan.
Wellesley officials filed a lawsuit in Norfolk Superior Court seeking to block the sale of a MassBay Community College parking lot for a 180-unit housing development.
An uptick in VC funding is building anticipation for Greater Boston’s tough-tech and beaten-down life science markets, JLL research says.
