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.
The Downtown Boston Business Improvement District has announced a three-year effort to “forge [a] new identity” for the neighborhood.
The organization that represents property owners in a 34-block section of downtown Boston received a five-year vote of confidence for its role in supporting the neighborhood economy.
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: it’s The Personnel File.
Making good on a proposal she unveiled earlier this month, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced a formal date for a party to mark downtown Boston’s “reopening” after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic – and hopefully lure many workers back to still-empty office buildings.
The Downtown Boston Business Improvement District’s pedestrian-traffic sensors have clocked a 95 percent increase in foot traffic since December 2020.
The Boston Transportation Department on Tuesday opened a newly built public plaza in Downtown Crossing.
