by State House News Service | Aug 26, 2026
A judge found “no legal or logical support” for allegations of conflict of interest tied to the redevelopment of a Springfield courthouse, and denied an injunction that losing bidders sought to pause the project.
by State House News Service | Aug 10, 2026
Attorney General Andrea Campbell is backing the state’s controversial Springfield courthouse procurement, calling a legal complaint from losing bidders “nothing more than a fever dream of imagined malfeasance.”
by State House News Service | Jul 13, 2026
Two losing bidders sued the state and the winning developer Thursday to block Springfield’s new regional courthouse project, claiming conflict of interest.
by Steve Adams | May 12, 2026
But Wellesley voters OK’d an additional $900,000 for potential legal action against a proposed 180-unit housing development.
by Steve Adams | May 11, 2026
The Healey administration’s program to turn surplus state properties into housing faces one of its biggest tests tonight as Wellesley voters take up a potential 180-unit project.
by Steve Adams | Apr 14, 2026
Administrative offices of the Massachusetts Trial Court are taking advantage of the uptick in office tower vacancies to move to a Financial District property.
by Steve Adams | Mar 13, 2026
A former Middlesex Superior Courthouse in Lowell will be auctioned off to qualified developers in June, as part of the Healey administration’s push to repurpose dormant state real estate as housing.
by Susan Gittelman | Oct 26, 2025
Shaping a plan for 180 apartments on a Wellesley community college campus illustrates just how complicated carrying out the State Land for Homes program will be.
by Steve Adams | Sep 3, 2025
A 100-year-old courthouse in downtown Lowell is being offered to developers in the latest disposition under a program to turn dormant state properties into multifamily housing.
by Steve Adams | Aug 11, 2025
The Sept. 10 auction is an early test of Gov. Maura Healey’s new program to accelerate disposition of underutilized state land for housing production.
by State House News Service | Jun 26, 2025
A redevelopment project in Monson that could create at least 600 housing units hit a milestone as state officials began transferring 100 acres of land from a former Department of Developmental Services campus.
by Steve Adams | Jun 2, 2025
An exhaustive inventory of state properties identified more than three dozen sites totaling 450 acres that will be offered to multifamily housing developers.
by Steve Adams | Oct 18, 2024
Proposals to add housing and commercial space to Bunker Hill Community College’s Charlestown campus are due Dec. 10, state real estate officials announced.
by Steve Adams | Oct 11, 2024
In the latest reconfiguration of the state government’s office footprint in Boston, seven agencies will relocate to a Financial District property in 2025.
by Steve Adams | Jul 25, 2024
The Healey administration abandoned plans for life science towers at a state-owned Brutalist landmark in Boston’s West End and pivoted to a new development plan prioritizing housing production.
by Steve Adams | Jul 18, 2024
Six state agencies are taking advantage of the Boston office market downturn to upgrade to a new location at One Federal St., where they will occupy 106,000 square feet.
by Steve Adams | Jun 16, 2024
State agencies’ pending lease expirations in downtown Boston would add over 800,000 square feet of vacancies to the beleaguered office market, prompting pleas for Gov. Maura Healey to reverse a planned real estate diet.
by Banker & Tradesman | Nov 15, 2023
State officials are asking Springfield landowners to pitch them on locations for a new courthouse complex for that city.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 28, 2023
Who’s on the move? From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: It’s The Personnel File.
by James Sanna | Jun 21, 2023
The small cluster of cabins providing supportive housing at the state’s Shattuck Hospital campus could blossom into hundreds of units for families and individuals under a redevelopment proposal from Boston Medical Center.