State real estate officials released their latest vision for a private redevelopment in Boston’s West End, which could result in construction of a 40-story tower and relocation of group homes and shelters for Department of Mental Health clients.
In this current environment, the winners will be those who are willing to be flexible, innovative and adapt to current market conditions.
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.
State officials are asking Springfield landowners to pitch them on locations for a new courthouse complex for that city.
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State real estate officials are offering Salem State University’s south campus as a redevelopment opportunity including the potential for hundreds of multifamily housing units.
Two-thirds of construction contracts administered by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance don’t employ women and nearly one-third don’t employ minorities, Auditor Suzanne Bump’s office said.
State officials say the potential demolition of the historically-protected Charles F. Hurley Building in Boston’s West End is still on the table, a month after publicly indicating the idea was a non-starter because of objections from preservationists.
Today’s opening of a new county courthouse location expands Woburn-based Cummings Properties’ tenant roster of public agencies at its local commercial real estate portfolio.
The state is seeking proposals to ground-lease the 3.25-acre Charles F. Hurley state offices property near Boston’s Government Center, saying the existing 327,000-square-foot structure needs $200 million in renovations and is ripe for redevelopment.
With a Cambridge City Council vote earlier this week, it appears that Leggat McCall’s proposal to convert the former Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge to a mixed office-residential tower has cleared its biggest hurdle.
Attempts to redevelop Cambridge’s former Sullivan Courthouse could culminate early this summer – or potentially roll back to the starting gate. Leggat McCall Properties plans 430,000 square feet of office space and 24 affordable apartments, but must secure a lease on 420 parking spaces in a nearby municipal garage.
A 34-acre Chelmsford parcel once used as University of Massachusetts Lowell’s West Campus has sold at auction for $3.24 million.
As it searches for a site for its permanent headquarters, the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) is considering 10 locations in Worcester, most of them in the city’s newly revitalized downtown core.
Gov. Charlie Baker and Lynn Mayor Thomas M. McGee signed a bill authorizing the sale of the Lynn Armory to a city nonprofit. The nonprofit Neighborhood Development Assoc. Inc. plans to renovate the historic building into a military veteran apartment complex.
State and local officials recently announced plans for the redevelopment of the 226 Main St. site in downtown Brockton.
