Despite calls from housing experts, municipal leaders and Gov. Charlie Baker himself, House Speaker Bob DeLeo said he wasn’t ready to commit to passing a bill aimed at spurring housing production by the end of 2019.
If a high school headmaster can be chosen to lead a prominent community bank, Massachusetts companies have few excuses for not having a better record on workplace diversity.
With restaurants a key component of many mixed-use projects today, Massachusetts’ outdated liquor license system creates many challenges for developers. A new “umbrella” license bill hopes to fix that.
Twenty-four chambers of commerce and industry lobby groups from around Massachusetts are joining forces to heed House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s call for a unified voice from the business community on transportation matters.
The lack of housing is now approaching crisis level. The number of communities with median prices above $1 million has doubled in the past decade. As a result, the shortage of workforce housing is now a significant threat to our economic growth.
Organizations representing Massachusetts’ business community, including the banking industry, have come in for criticism from a new report on leadership diversity in the state from the Boston-based Eos Foundation.
Even as commercial real estate embraces new technology, there’s no substitute for that face-to-face connection.
David Begelfer, leader of NAIOP Massachusetts, is finally retiring.
With time running out, House Speaker Robert DeLeo said Monday that a housing production bill was “not at all” dead for the session, but said two lobbying organizations representing commercial developers and city and town governments could “severely” limit the scope of that legislation.
Supporters of a developing House land use, smart growth and housing production bill say 54 House members have signed on as supporters, but real estate industry interests are strongly opposed to the measure.
For a place that ranks as one of the most innovative places on the planet, the Greater Boston business community collectively stumbles a bit when it comes to creating career pathways for diverse talent pools.
The world of commercial real estate is changing at an unprecedented rate. Fundamental transformations in the ways that the workforce utilizes space, the emergence of new technologies, and a heightened awareness of how climate change is affecting the built environment are having a significant impact on the real estate decision-making process.
Gentrification is not a new phenomenon and plenty of attempts have been made to combat it in the past. Some have come to fruition as laws; others have dropped away in market downturns or in the face of unrelenting progress.
