
Hot Property: Stone Mill Lofts
The oldest mill in the city of Lawrence was converted into multifamily housing including decarbonized building systems in a $39.2 million adaptive reuse project by WinnCompanies of Boston.
The oldest mill in the city of Lawrence was converted into multifamily housing including decarbonized building systems in a $39.2 million adaptive reuse project by WinnCompanies of Boston.
Massachusetts is home to thousands of “brownfields” – buildings and land that are blighted and hampered by chemical contamination – with many in Gateway Cities. This year marks the 24th anniversary of the launch of a highly successful investment program that’s redeveloped hundreds of these sites.
Trinity Financial’s latest project in Lawrence, the Fábrica Lofts, opened its doors last week with an assist from state officials and TD Bank.
Reading Cooperative Bank said it is looking to serve Lawrence’s underbanked population with the opening of a new branch there.
It is essential that this new source of revenue be used to strengthen transportation infrastructure, and RTAs are key in realizing a robust transit system that delivers for all residents.
The adage across all commercial real estate during economic cooldowns is a financial flight to quality – high-end buildings in the urban core. That might not be the case this time around.
Adapting an idle building into housing, commercial space or a community center maximizes the value of an existing asset, reduces carbon emissions and can effectively help address the shortage of affordable housing.
The governor will be on hand Wednesday when political and community leaders in Lawrence celebrate the opening of a new turf field atop a parking garage, part of a big new redevelopment by Lupoli Cos.
A parcel of land in a Pittsfield business park that “looks like the surface of the moon” and has been “undevelopable and in a state of deterioration for over 20 years,” according to the city’s mayor, is receiving a $880,000 state grant to help make it ready for future development.
Local officials and economic development specialists say underutilized office buildings and neglected parcels in the heart of downtown present a compelling opportunity for housing conversions and new construction.
The realities of a fast-approaching post-pandemic world present opportunities for unleashing the commercial real estate potential of Gateway Cities like Lawrence, Springfield, Brockton and Pittsfield through transformative transit-oriented development
Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera, a Democrat and ally of Gov. Charlie Baker’s, will be nominated by the governor on Thursday to become the next CEO of MassDevelopment, according to two sources familiar with the decision.
The builders of an apartment complex have agreed to pay $335,000 to settle allegations that workers improperly handled asbestos-containing material during the redevelopment of a former manufacturing site in Lawrence.
State field teams will fan out across five communities that have recorded persistent dangerously-high transmission rates for COVID-19 as the state seeks to stamp out the disease.
A handful of Greater Boston communities have become ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts, thanks in part to the overcrowded conditions forced by too-high rent and too few rental units.
A utility company blamed for a series of natural gas explosions in the Merrimack that left one person dead and damaged dozens of homes has agreed to plead guilty to breaking pipeline safety laws,
While residents want to call Lawrence home, the city has very little developable land, making adaptive reuse projects incorporating the city’s many former mills even more critical.
A dilapidated mill complex just 15 years ago, Lupoli Cos.’ Riverwalk in Lawrence is virtually bursting at the seams. Now, with occupancy of Riverwalk’s commercial space at approximately 95 percent, developer Lupoli Cos. has launched a $60 million expansion project called The Pavilion.
Every city in Massachusetts has one or two, and in Lawrence, there are hundreds, Mayor Daniel Rivera said Thursday: vacant properties that aren’t being developed, because their owners are tied up in land court or the ownership is otherwise unclear.
A $46-million mill redevelopment by Boston-based Trinity Financial has delivered 102 units of mixed-income housing to Lawrence’s Arlington Mills district.