by Steve Adams | Feb 26, 2026
With data in hand showing improvement in Downtown Boston’s office and retail markets, Downtown Boston Alliance President Michael Nichols credits the residential market as a key factor to a sustained recovery.
by Steve Adams | Jan 20, 2026
Following the extension of Boston’s office-to-residential conversion incentives, Boston-based developer Synergy submitted plans to create 255 apartments in a Downtown Crossing office building.
by Steve Adams | Jun 11, 2025
The second phase of a housing conversion project created 36 apartments next to Boston’s Orpheum Theater.
by Steve Adams | Mar 6, 2025
Nearly two decades after Barnes & Noble exited Boston’s Downtown Crossing, a new ownership team is seeking to reactivate the office-retail property with new tenants.
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 Steve Adams | Jun 4, 2024
A Downtown Crossing building that was renovated by a developer following the departure of Barnes & Noble is back on the market as a potential value-added investment opportunity.
by Scott Van Voorhis | May 23, 2021
Reality has yet to catch up with all the years of hype about the promise of “Midtown,” maybe best known for the posh Millennium Tower and the hum-drum shopping district it lords over.
by James Sanna | Oct 30, 2020
Midwood Investment and Development has taken the wraps off its plans for a second try at developing a largely-vacant downtown Boston site.
by The Associated Press | Jun 4, 2020
Movie theater chain AMC warned Wednesday that it may not survive the coronavirus pandemic, which has shuttered its theaters and led film studios to explore releasing more movies directly to viewers over the internet.
by Steve Adams | Jun 1, 2020
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh denounced an outbreak of violence and vandalism following largely peaceful protests against police brutality that filled downtown streets Sunday night.
by The Associated Press | Jun 1, 2020
A Sunday afternoon of mostly peaceful protests in Boston broke at nightfall when protesters clashed with officers, throwing rocks, breaking into several stores and lighting a police vehicle on fire.
by Steve Adams | Mar 4, 2020
A developer has reactivated plans for a high-rise in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, on the same property where it previously proposed a 59-story tower that drew opposition from neighborhood residents.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 24, 2019
A retail building next to the Millennium Tower in Boston’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood has sold for $134.21 million.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 7, 2019
An 11-story downtown Boston office building has sold for $70.35 million, according to documents filed with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 26, 2019
A downtown hotel which helped kick off a run of boutique hotels in the heart of Boston will become a dorm after Suffolk University closed on a $61.7 million purchase, according to information filed in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
by Steve Adams | Aug 20, 2019
Suffolk University’s search for more dorm space in downtown Boston is leading to the Ames Hotel property near Government Center.
by Peter Paul Payack | Aug 11, 2019
Is that a money tree growing on the Millennium Tower’s penthouse terrace?
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 5, 2019
The highest unit in downtown Boston’s Millennium Tower is back on the market, with an asking price $10 million higher than its 2016 sale price.
by Scott Van Voorhis | May 19, 2019
The BPDA has kicked off an intensive planning process to look at the future of downtown Boston, and City Hall’s interest in taking a deep dive on the future of the neighborhood comes as development interest in the area bubbles.
by Banker & Tradesman | Dec 21, 2018
A 3-story retail building in the heart of Boston’s Downtown Crossing shopping district has been sold for $5 million.