Hot Property: Eastern Edge Food Hall
MIT graduate students in a new Kendall Square housing tower will have access to a wide range of global cuisine without leaving the building.
Hot Property: Takeda Theater at The Platform
A 45,000 square-foot performing arts center at the 585 Kendall life science development will be known as The Takeda Theater at The Platform.
Amid Headwinds, College and Lab Projects Move Forward
These three projects are bright spots offering valuable lessons. All three required years of work and complex transactions. All are entering construction during unprecedented uncertainty.
Boston-Area Lab Vacancies Hit 25 Percent as Industry Retrenches
The lab space vacancy rate hit 25 percent across the region during the first quarter, as companies continued to downsize and list new sublease space.
Study Explores Rail Link Between Allston, Kendall Square, North Station
Getting to Kendall Square in Cambridge from the western suburbs isn’t easy. You can drive in on the Massachusetts Turnpike and take your chances with the brutal traffic in Cambridge, or you can ride all the way into Boston on either the commuter rail or the Green Line and then make your way out to Kendall from there.
MassBio Maps Rescue Plan for Life Science Startups
The free-flowing funding climate in biotech slowed to a trickle in 2022, choking off the supply of tenants to fill Boston’s explosion of new life science real estate.
New Factors Give Occupiers Even Stronger Hand in Lab Market
The life sciences and lab market across the Boston metro area has been in a state of flux for some time, but a new factors have added extra pressure on landlords and owners.
Discovery by Design at AstraZeneca’s New R&D Facility
This 570,000-square-foot tower will accommodate up to 1,850 employees after it opens in 2026. Teams from AstraZeneca and Alexion Rare Disease will collaborate here to transform the future of healthcare.
MIT Completes $750M Kendall Square Acquisition
The purchase marks a key milestone in the university’s plans to build eight buildings totaling over 3 million square feet of development in the heart of the state’s innovation hub.
Feds Choose Greater Boston as Biomedical Research Hub
The Biden administration “planted its flag here in Massachusetts,” Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday, by agreeing after a competitive process to create a biomedical and health hub in Greater Boston through the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.
Comrade, Don’t Forget Who Pays You
It would be hard to say that Cambridge isn’t doing its level best to back up its beliefs in social justice with cold, hard cash.
Tech Layoffs Add to Office Market Woes
Potential layoffs at Amazon and deep cuts to Twitter’s workforce are adding to the headwinds faced by a Boston office market in the midst of a year-long retreat.
Hot Property: Boeing Aerospace & Autonomy Center
At Boeing’s newly-completed Aerospace & Autonomy Center in Kendall Square, researchers from its Aurora Flight Sciences division are developing software used in flight simulators and unpiloted air taxis.
BXP Picks Up Kendall Mid-Rise for $602M
One of Kendall Square’s dominant players just added a new property to its portfolio as troubled life-science firm Biogen exits a major lease nearby.
A Front-Row Seat to Notable Real Estate Addresses
During its 150-year history, Banker & Tradesman and its parent company, The Warren Group, occupied addresses in some of Massachusetts’ most significant commercial districts and steps from some of the 21st-century’s highest-profile development sites.
This Month in History: A Space Race Booby Prize
Local legends to the contrary, Cambridge never truly stood a chance to host NASA’s “Mission Control” for its many space exploration missions. But the consolation prize turned into a mess that, nonetheless, cleared the way for today’s Kendall Square.
Akamai Wants Our HQ to Be Part of the Climate Solution. The Legislature Can Help
It’s going to take robust statewide policy to ensure that every building owner and operator can take advantage of this opportunity and help the state meet its climate targets.
The Man Who Built Kendall Square – and Walked Away
Cambridge’s Kendall Square might never have become the world’s life science capital save for a chance connection between David Clem and a New Hampshire timber company.
Hot Property: The Foundry
A 131-year-old East Cambridge property that has a history as a factory, taxi barn and office space is reopening this fall as a new community hub.
Charting Roadmaps for Tech Growth and Public Health
Using the same collaborative strategies that powered the Cambridge Innovation Center, founder Tim Rowe has helped Massachusetts fight the COVID-19 pandemic with hundreds of testing sites and vaccination clinics.
