Hot Property: 15 McGrath Highway
Despite the general softening of the local life science real estate market, a major pension fund has decided to back Somerville’s latest spec lab high-rise.
Somerville Lab High-Rise Lands Financing
Despite the general softening of the life science real estate market, a major pension fund has decided to back Somerville’s latest spec lab high-rise.
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.”
Somerville Lab Tower Recapitalized for $478M
Developers of the first major life science building in Somerville’s Boynton Yards have recapitalized the property in a $478-million deal with a San Francisco investor joining the ownership.
Leggat McCall Makes $60M Acquisition in Boynton Yards
Leggat McCall Properties and DLJ Real Estate Partners are expanding their real estate footprint in Somerville’s Boynton Yards again with the $60 million acquisition of a pair of parcels including Riverside Properties’ 561 Windsor St. which is the home to Taza Chocolate and tech startups.
Joint Venture Proposes Cambridge-Crossing Adjacent Lab Building
DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and Leggat McCall Properties have teamed up again, this time to pitch a 9-story lab building along the McGrath Highway.
Lab Space Kicks off Boynton Yards Project
Greater Boston remains at the epicenter of the life sciences market in the country – if not the world – and the demand for state-of-the-art space has never been higher.
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.
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.
Rising Rents Drive Investment in Boston Industrial Real Estate
Boston is ranked No. 2 for investor demand by the Urban Land Institute and PwC, and the industrial sector is drawing increasing interest, as limited supply has rents soaring to record levels.
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.
Developers Pick Up 3-Acre Union Square Parcel for $23M
Two months after breaking ground on a speculative office-lab building, developers have acquired another key parcel in Somerville’s Boynton Yards with an eye toward a 1 million-square-foot multi-phased development.
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.
10 CRE Stories to Watch in 2019
As projects in Somerville, East Boston, Allston-Brighton and South End move forward, developers of large vacant commercial properties in Newton and Woburn are laying out plans for mixed-use projects totaling over 3 million square feet.
18 Tremont St. Acquired For $77.5M
A 12-story office building near Boston’s Government...
