WeWork Seeks to Retain Only Cambridge Location
Coworking provider WeWork plans to retain its only Cambridge location, an 33,133-square-foot lease at 625 Massachusetts Ave., after renegotiating its terms with ownership.
WeWork Seeks to Drop One Lincoln Lease
One Lincoln owner Fortis Property Group faces another big office vacancy to fill if a bankruptcy court approves WeWork’s motion to reject the lease on its 241,000-square-foot coworking center.
WeWork Seeks to Walk Away from Atlantic Ave. Lease
WeWork, once the biggest name in coworking in Boston, plans to reject a lease for one of its locations next to South Station.
Hot Property: Kismet Commerce
Kismet Commerce’s first facility will provide small businesses with customized office, coworking and storage space ranging from 100 to 2,500 square feet.
Workbar Leases Framingham Offices for 11th Location
Workbar’s newest suburban coworking center will include a podcast studio and telepresence room equipped with smart TV monitors designed to blend the in-person and virtual work environments.
Coworking Is Satisfying the Requirement for Workplace Mobility
As employers in Boston and beyond begin to adjust to the post-pandemic new normal, it’s clear that the remote work revolution has left its mark. But it’s also clear that companies are still looking for ways to harness the creative and cultural energies of in-person collaboration.
Hot Property: The Village Works
A historic, 15,000-square-foot retail block in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood has been gut-renovated into a new, 7,500-square-foot coworking space called The Village Works.
Charting Roadmaps for Tech Growth and Public Health
Using the same collaborative strategies that powered the Cambridge Innovation Center, founder Tim Rowe has helped Massachusetts fight the COVID-19 pandemic with hundreds of testing sites and vaccination clinics.
A Flexible Offering for Changing Workplace Patterns
Brian Dacey has a long track record working in emerging real estate growth clusters and identifying new ones. Dacey is president of the Cambridge Innovation Center which operates co-working spaces for 1,800 startups ranging from clean energy to life science .
Two Years Later, WeWork Attempts IPO No. 2
WeWork will become a publicly traded company Thursday after a spectacular collapse during its first attempt to do so two years ago.
Signs Not Good for Coworking Revival
CBRE is plunking down $200 million for just over a third of Industrious, while Newmark taking over bankrupt Knotel in a $20 million debtor-in-possession deal. Are they truly on to something?
Hot Property: Inc.ubate Coworking
Shared office space provider Inc.ubate Coworking has begun accepting applications for membership at its newest location, the historic Patton Homstead in Hamilton.
State $100K Coworking Grants Up for Grabs
Grants of up to $100,000 to plan, develop and build out collaborative workspaces are up for grabs again under a program that has dished out $8.4 million to 136 applicants during its first four rounds of activity.
Hot Property: Flex by BXP
Boston Properties has opened Flex by BXP, a 35,000-square-foot flexible office space that occupies the entire third floor at the 31-story Hub on Causeway office tower.
The Sharing Economy Has Already Made a Lasting Imprint on Real Estate
WeWork and Airbnb altered the way tenants look at property, the same way Uber and Lyft have upended the way passengers look at transportation
A New Player in Boston Commercial Development
Oxford Properties Group made a splash in 2014 with its big-ticket arrival in Massachusetts, buying five trophy office buildings in Boston and Cambridge. To spearhead its next effort, Oxford in 2018 hired Mark McGowan as its local head of development.
Landlord’s Market Likely to Continue in 2020
Following a year that saw Greater Boston vacancy rates drop to near-historic lows, rents in downtown Boston increase by over 15 percent year-over-year, and tech companies continue to absorb significant space in prime locations, what trends and shifts in the market can we expect to see in 2020?
Hot Property: Buildium Headquarters
Property management software provider Buildium has moved into a new 38,000-square-foot headquarters in Boston, providing collaborative workspace for its more than 200 employees and expansion capability for 100 more.
WeWork Cuts Nearly One in Five Workers in Restructuring Effort
WeWork is slashing nearly 20 percent of its...WeWork Co-Founder Pushed Aside in $5B SoftBank Takeover
WeWork is accepting a $5 billion rescue package that hands control of the company to Japanese tech giant SoftBank and pushes aside co-founder Adam Neumann, but the company still has a long road ahead of it.
