Biomanufacturing Boom Is Good News for Mass. Workers

There’s no hope of bringing the auto industry back to Somerville’s Assembly Square, while the textile industry bailed for sunnier climes nearly a century ago. But Massachusetts may yet see a manufacturing renaissance from a possible tenfold increase in biomanufacturing real estate.

Industrial Demand Sets off Frenzied Site Searches

Demand is simply outstripping supply for all types of industrial space, including old-fashioned light-manufacturing space, and there’s no end in sight despite recent facility conversions and new construction of millions of square feet of supply.