Creating currency was not legal in the colonies, independent-minded Bay Staters went ahead and set up a mint anyway to dodge British authorities’ demands they barter for goods and services, a rule that threatened to hobble the booming economy.
Validity Inc. has relocated its headquarters to a new 25,000-square-foot office suite at 100 Summer St. in Boston’s Financial District, after subleasing space for four years in Back Bay.
As city officials and landlords seek to revive street life in downtown Boston, Whitney Gallivan has played a key role in shaping one of the Financial District’s newest attractions: the High Street Place food hall.
Making good on a proposal she unveiled earlier this month, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced a formal date for a party to mark downtown Boston’s “reopening” after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic – and hopefully lure many workers back to still-empty office buildings.
With downtown Boston still lagging behind its pre-pandemic vitality, Mayor Michelle Wu is organizing a grand reopening-style event to help lure more office workers back.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu put her mandate to address Boston’s housing crisis into action Thursday morning, announcing the formation of a new Rent Stabilization Advisory Committee composed of advocates and real estate industry figures.
A day before Boston Mayor Michelle Wu plans to sign a petition that would add a new tax on real estate sales of $2 million or more in her city to fund affordable housing, Gov. Charlie Baker said he generally does not “support these sorts of things.”
Some time between Feb. 21 and Feb. 23, 1901, an unknown coppersmith sealed an issue of Banker & Tradesman into a box placed inside the head of the Old State House’s rooftop lion sculpture as part of renovations to the building.
When Peter Rinning saw his new landlord was looking to reposition his Somerville neighborhood for biotech startups, he didn’t expected to be told, “You’re one of the reasons we’re buying this building. Don’t go anywhere.”
State officials have approved Boston leaders’ controversial decision to scrap a waterfront plan that would have enabled a pair of high-profile towers to rise along the harbor’s edge, Mayor Michelle Wu said yesterday.
In response, owners are raising prices, cutting staff hours, dropping some goods and services and nixing free shipping in a delicate balancing act. But with low visibility into how long the higher inflation will last, some owners are increasingly worried about keeping their doors open in the long run.
With a new surge in COVID-19 cases threatening to strain hospital capacity and harm the city’s economy, patrons and employees at restaurants, bars, theaters and gyms will have to show proof of vaccination.
I understand why elected officials steer toward to the siren song of eviction moratoria. But they don’t provide long-term protection, don’t sustain our limited rental housing supply and are not legal.
The summer of 2021’s record-breaking heat and precipitation in Greater Boston is adding urgency to additional requirements for commercial buildings and development sites and designs that can withstand expected extreme weather in coming years.
Boston’s Ritz-Carlton hotel reopens on Thursday with new promotional packages designed to capture the all-important leisure travel market.
Boston-based Cronin Development’s 22-story luxury condo tower began vertical construction this week following over two years of foundation and prep work on the waterfront site.
There are so many lab developments going on, Boston’s very urban fabric is changing.
Massachusetts General Hospital has unveiled plans for its $1.8-billion expansion designed to relieve emergency room overcrowding and provide more single-bed patient rooms.
A new poll sponsored by WBUR and the Dorchester Reporter newspaper puts at-large City Councilor Michelle Wu in pole position as the Boston mayoral race officially opens.
