Instead of providing potential developments with a series of hurdles to overcome, as mayor of Malden I have worked to create an atmosphere where city professionals look at projects to find a way to make them win/win opportunities while also protecting the city’s assets and resources.
Life science developer BioMed Realty’s local acquisition spree is spreading to Boston’s South End with the pending acquisition of a speculative office development at 321 Harrison Ave.
With ample capital available for investment opportunities in 2021, Boston-area developers have resumed a busy pace of acquisitions and proposals tying into the region’s thriving biopharmaceutical industry and demand for multifamily housing.
Skanska has bought the site and permitted design of John Hancock’s once-planned 26-story Back Bay office tower, and could add lab space to the design.
After buying a collection of parcels in Malden Center for $12 million in January, Boston-based Quaker Lane Capital has filed plans to develop an office building on the site.
Crews from Turner Construction hoisted the final beam completing the framing of Amazon’s future office complex in Boston’s Seaport District, which is scheduled for completion next year.
Proposals for downtown Boston hotels and office towers continue to land on the BPDA’s desk, despite the pandemic. Hey, the city still needs empty buildings, no matter the circumstances.
Midwood Investment and Development has taken the wraps off its plans for a second try at developing a largely-vacant downtown Boston site.
Commodore Builders is nearing completion of Boston’s first cross-laminated timber building, a redevelopment of a former rivet factory into office and retail space at 69 A. St. in South Boston.
Millennium Partners has obtained a $775-million construction mortgage to develop a 1.4-million-square-foot skyscraper in Boston’s Financial District, three months after scaling back the residential portion of the project in response to a cooling condo market.
The Matteson Cos. hopes to build an 8-story office building next to a South Boston landmark using a material that’s seeing a surge in interest in the area: cross-laminated timber.
The developer of an 18-story office building in Boston’s Seaport District is adding lab-ready designs to reflect the changes COVID-19 has forced in the commercial real estate market.
A possible realignment of the Boston Harborwalk and earthen berm designed to repel Fort Point Channel storm surges are proposed as part of Related Beal’s new 1.1-million-square-foot development in Boston’s Seaport District.
Boston’s Winthrop Center skyscraper project will shrink to help developer Millennium Partners obtain construction financing in what is suddenly a challenging climate for large-scale luxury residential projects.
A $700 million development on a landmark Massachusetts Turnpike air rights parcel is beginning construction in Back Bay in spite of the uncertainties swirling around future demand for office, hotel and retail space.
East Watertown’s growing life science pipeline is expanding to Coolidge Avenue corridor with a $32.6 million acquisition of the Mount Auburn Club property by a pair of leading developers.
The developer of Somerville’s Assembly Row is seeking to replace the former Kmart store with 96,000 square feet of office and retail space.
Developer Millennium Partners is asking to reduce the residential portion of its Winthrop Center skyscraper under construction in Boston’s Financial District, citing impacts from COVID-19 and a downturn in condo markets and capital sources.
Two developers that compete for global icons such as Facebook and Google as tenants in Cambridge’s Kendall Square find themselves on the same side of the table for a change, with one poised to gain approval for an additional 800,000 square feet of office-lab space in the tech mecca.
Slowdowns in leasing, potential unpaid rents and delays in new tenant move-ins because of construction moratoriums are casting doubt on Boston Properties’ anticipated revenues for the rest of 2020, executives said.
