Boynton Yards Proposes 12-Story Lab Building

After leasing up their first lab tower and receiving $246 million in construction financing to start a second, Boynton Yards developers are moving forward with a third lab tower in the 1.9 million-square-foot master-planned project.

Hot Property: 101 South St.

101 South St. is the first phase of the 1.8-million-square-foot Boynton Yards mixed-use life sciences development spanning seven acres in Somerville. 

Can Life Science Subsidize the Cultural Economy?

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.”

Boynton Yards Gets First Major Biotech Lease

Cambridge-based biotech investor Flagship Pioneering has picked Somerville’s Boynton Yards to establish a life science research cluster, leasing 208,000-square-foot lease for a group of its companies at Leggat McCall Properties’ 101 South St. development.

Somerville’s Next Development Cluster?

Somerville’s Inner Belt district checks many of the boxes that are in demand among commercial developers. And the 100-acre neighborhood is seeing signs it could transform under the weight of demand for life science space.

Leggat McCall Proposes 1.1M SF Somerville Development

Boston-based Leggat McCall Properties and DLJ Real Estate are proposing a 1.1 million-square-foot mixed-use development in Somerville’s Boynton Yards, where the developers already have begun construction of a speculative life science building.

The Year in Commercial Real Estate

From a booming life science industry spreading further out from East Cambridge to new multifamily housing models and an e-commerce-fueled explosion in interest in distribution facilities, here’s what drove demand in 2019.

Boynton Yards Lab Project Breaks Ground

DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, Leggat McCall Properties and Shawmut Design and Construction celebrated the official groundbreaking of the first of an expected wave of life science and office buildings in Somerville’s Boynton Yards, an industrial neighborhood near the city’s Union Square and Cambridge’s Kendall Square.

A Race to Meet the Train in Somerville

Boston-based Leggat McCall Properties and DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners of New York envision a 1 million-square-foot life science cluster tapping into the proximity to Kendall Square and the 2021 arrival of the MBTA’s Green Line Extension.

Hot Property: 101 South St.

A 9-story, 289,000-square-foot class A office and lab building that broke ground in July will become the largest life science development in Somerville.