The CRE Insider

Developers Lean into High-Efficiency Designs
As more Greater Boston communities adopt the state’s new opt-in energy code with its higher sustainability standards, developers are testing the limits of how far commercial buildings can effectively run without fossil fuel sources.

Office Designs with a Sense of Purpose
For too long, office design was about a kit of parts – matching desks, file cabinets, chairs – all easily rearranged on a dime. The advent of hybrid work changed all that.

Designers Chart Cost-Effective Fossil Fuel Fixes
The race is on to decarbonize real estate developments across Greater Boston. But it doesn’t mean developers need to be fearful of crushing costs, experts say.

How Parametric Design is Changing Architecture
CambridgeSeven used parametric design to translate the unique Voronai diagram into a primary design element for exhibits at the new Broad Discovery Center in Cambridge.

A New Addition to Worcester’s Canal District
AKROS Development’s 105-unit multifamily project at 102 Temple St. in Worcester will include a pocket park, retail space and outdoor seating while buffering the Canal District from Interstate 290.

MassDevelopment Banks on Gateway Cities
As MassDevelopment looks to more aggressively embrace and utilize our land banking authority across Massachusetts for the benefit of residents and businesses, recent projects in Gateway Cities demonstrate our ability to reposition challenging properties.

Amid Recent Boom, Gateway Cities Offer Development Potential
Over the course of the past decade, as pricing has increased throughout Greater Boston, developers have turned their attention to Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities and their wealth of developable land as well as redevelopment opportunities. And our increasingly hybrid world has made these sites even more attractive.