Battle lines are entrenched as Boston officials near decision time on new ground rules for downtown development. Supporters say encouraging high-rise development in Downtown Crossing and the Financial District will ease the housing crisis head off a potential fiscal cliff related to declining tax revenues from rising office vacancies. Opponents warn of damage to historic sites, increased shadows on Boston Common and an influx of high-end luxury housing.
A former Brighton monastery property redeveloped as 555 apartments received $212 million in refinancing from Affinius Capital.
A Fenway development that was approved Thursday will provide temporary housing for families of Boston Children’s Hospital patients.
Greater Boston’s 16 million-square-foot lab construction pipeline used to represent an exclamation point for the region’s life science industry. Today, it’s one of the biggest question marks in the local commercial real estate market.
A crowdsourcing campaign that raised $68 million paved the way for developers’ acquisition of the Home Depot-anchored property in Somerville.
A nearly 300,000-square-foot research lab and biomanufacturing complex would replace a group of industrial tenants in a planned redevelopment of a 15-acre property near the MBTA’s Anderson Regional Transportation Center in Woburn.
The Boston City Council and BRA Director Ed Logue found themselves at loggerheads amid accusations of backroom negotiations over a 40-story office tower planned as part of the Government Center urban renewal project.
After recently completing a 289-unit apartment complex in Woburn, a Boston developer submitted plans to redevelop a 14-acre nearby industrial site as lab and biomanufacturing space.
With more than $1.9 billion in West Cambridge acquisitions since 2019, the Denver-based REIT Healthpeak Properties is poised to begin testing the city’s appetite for a second Kendall Square-like cluster.
Developer Healthpeak Properties revealed plans to build out a 36-acre life science campus over the next decade on parcels it’s assembling in the Quadrangle section of West Cambridge.
A major Medford landlord is building out spec lab suites in a 1989 office building, while another developer is proposing a speculative life science tower and city officials are reviewing zoning for taller building heights.
Gerald W. Blakeley Jr.’s fingerprints are on many of Greater Boston’s dominant real estate development patterns of the past half-century, from the emergence of Route 128 as “America’s Technology Highway” to the growth of East Cambridge and revival of downtown Boston.
Beverly Hills private equity firm Township Capital has joined the ownership of a 4.4-acre development parcel in Cambridge’s Quad neighborhood where Cabot, Cabot & Forbes is planning a life science development.
Owners of the Overlook at St. Gabriel’s commissioned 12 original artworks to complement the redevelopment of the 12-acre former church and monastery property.
Even after the pandemic ends, most predict that demand for outdoor space, even if it’s only a sliver, will remain a high priority for many urban tenants concerned about their health and general well-being.
Boston-based Cabot, Cabot and Forbes is weighing its options for a large development parcel in Cambridge’s Quad neighborhood following the city council’s rejection of a zoning amendment this week.
The Davis Cos. is set to break ground on the next 155,000-square-foot phase of its Quad campus in early 2021 after attracting South Boston-based Gingko Bioworks to the West Cambridge portfolio.
The land rush at Cambridge’s final development frontier shows no sign of abating, and city officials hope to leverage private investment into public benefits including new transit connections and park space.
A Boston developer partnering with Harvard University has a new game plan for a high-profile but dormant development site bordering the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston.
When Cabot, Cabot & Forbes and partner Blue Vista Capital Management acquired the former St. Gabriel’s Monastery, the development team recognized the historic importance and uniqueness of the space, and committed to making the property’s history a focal point of our design.
