New Xmbly Developer Seeks More Lab Space

A leading life science developer is taking over redevelopment of an Assembly Square site with plans for a larger office-lab project than was originally approved by Somerville officials in 2018.

The Davis Cos. Pitches New Alewife Building

Two months after a six-building, 1 million-square-foot multifamily and lab complex was pitched for Cambridge’s Alewife Quadrangle neighborhood, another developer is joining the effort to revamp the industrial area near Belmont

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.

A Scientific Approach to Architecture

After Natasha Pirman’s employer moved to a new campus in 2017, she began thinking about a career change. The biochemistry Ph.D.’s knack for organizing their new workspaces translated well into the world of architecture, where local firms are looking for new hires with life science backgrounds as they pursue work designing office and labs to satisfy the industry’s relentless expansion.

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.

With Deep Pockets, Lab Developers Positioned to Dominate Allston

The success of Boston Landing – which leased brand-new lab space to Roche Diagnostics, incubator SmartLabs and Proteostasis Therapeutics in 2017 – put Allston on the map as a budding life science cluster. Now, life science developers have begun to outbid multifamily competitors for development sites.

Office and Lab Pipeline Hits Cyclical High

Due to the scarcity of developable sites in key urban markets, both office and lab developers are getting more creative and increasingly pursuing opportunities outside of traditional business districts, like the South End, South Boston, Somerville and Allston-Brighton.

Somerville Jumps on Lab Bandwagon

A pair of speculative lab projects by well-known local developers are ramping up this summer in Somerville’s Union Square and Boynton Yards, the next neighborhoods to stake a claim as a life science startup landing spots.

South Boston Lab Site Could Sell for $80M

Developers that bought a South Boston warehouse property for $25 million just over a year ago are preparing to cash out after gaining approval for an office-lab complex on the primed-for-life science A Street corridor.