Amid DEI Backlash, Developer Group Blazes Path Forward
Emerging real estate developers and potential financial backers gathered in Boston this week to make connections, do deals and share strategies to overcome the challenging investment climate.
BPDA Approves New Lab Projects and Office Conversion
The largest community benefits agreement to support arts and culture in Boston history is the price that a lab developer will pay to replace Brighton’s Sound Museum with a life science campus.
Home of Longtime Malden Manufacturer Sold
An industrial property close by Malden Center has sold, with the tenant’s future uncertain.
Demonstration Projects Test Potential for Timber
Wood-framed construction might historically be associated with single-family homes, but mass timber – an engineered wood product – increasingly appears to offer benefits for a wide range of commercial building types.
Boston Names Mass Timber Accelerator Projects
Seven proposed Boston buildings are about to start testing whether real commercial development can move past carbon-spewing construction materials in a big way.
CBT Architects to Move HQ to Charlestown
CBT Architects is leaving its longtime home in the Bulfinch Triangle early next year in favor of a new 50,000-square-foot headquarters at One Constitution Wharf in Charlestown.
Quaker Lane Buys Bulfinch Triangle Offices
Quaker Lane Capital has added a 63,000-square-foot office building in Boston’s Bulfinch Triangle to its portfolio with a $24 million acquisition.
$90M Malden Center Development Seeks Office, R&D Growth
A Boston developer is seeking an anchor tenant to break ground on Malden Center’s first new office building in decades.
Hot Property: 11 Dartmouth St.
Boston-based Quaker Lane Capital has received special permit approval to redevelop 11 Dartmouth St. in Malden Center as a mixed-use property including class A office and life science space.
9-Story Office Tower Planned for Malden Center
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.
Land Deals Reflect Confidence in Boston’s Staying Power
A slew of covered land plays in recent weeks, from Widette Circle to Alewife, are giving investors a ready stream of rent while they assess the impact of COVID-19 on real estate and plan their next moves in growing development clusters.
Creating Diverse New Pathways into CRE
Mentorship matters more than ever in the midst of a pandemic., something Carlos Febres-Mazzei knows well. The new chairman of ULI Boston/New England is overseeing a number of equity and inclusion strategies trying to put this knowledge into action.
Personnel File
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: it’s The Personnel File.
Malden OZ Properties Sell for $12M
A pair of Malden mixed-use buildings in one of the city’s two opportunity zones have sold for nearly $12 million.
