by State House News Service | Jan 29, 2025
In Burlington Tuesday to promote her 10-year transportation funding plan, Gov. Maura Healey also happened to be in the right place to talk up new housing construction after what her transportation chief called a “historic vote” just 12 hours earlier.
by Steve Adams | Jan 28, 2025
Multifamily housing and hotel development could be in the works at the Burlington Mall property and surrounding office parks following approval of a mixed-use zoning district.
by Steve Adams | Nov 22, 2024
Braintree Town Councilors approved a new zoning district for the South Shore Plaza property that gives developer ZOM Living the ability to pursue its proposed $140-million apartment complex.
by Steve Adams | Jun 5, 2024
A group of new retailers including the first New England location for Savage x Fenty by Rihanna are joining the tenant roster at Braintree’s South Shore Plaza.
by Banker & Tradesman | May 13, 2024
Who’s on the move? From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: It’s The Personnel File.
by Steve Adams | Apr 28, 2024
Mall landlords seeking to fill vacancies and local artists looking for high-traffic exhibition space were a natural match that needed an introduction.
by Steve Adams | Mar 30, 2023
A housing developer has reduced the size of a proposed multifamily project at Braintree’s South Shore Plaza after recent objections from neighbors, while defending housing as a “fundamental right.”
by Steve Adams | Jan 3, 2023
A Florida developer’s first Massachusetts project proposes 495 apartments at Braintree’s South Shore Plaza.
by Steve Adams | Dec 8, 2021
The former Lord & Taylor store at Burlington Mall will be converted into 102,000 square feet of office space under plans approved by town officials.
by Banker & Tradesman | May 25, 2021
Shake Shack, Fogo De Chao, Bennett’s Sandwich Shop and Parm will open in a portion of the Burlington Mall formerly occupied by Sears and undergoing an extensive renovation project.
by The Associated Press | Nov 16, 2020
Simon Property Group, the nation’s biggest mall owner, has negotiated a lower price to purchase a controlling interest in Taubman Centers in a deal that was nearly killed by the coronavirus pandemic.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 25, 2020
A Florida private equity firm specializing in senior care homes and medical office facilities has bought a large slice of the Auburn Mall for $50 million.
by The Associated Press | Sep 10, 2020
Mall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners are close to a deal to buy department store chain J.C. Penney out of bankruptcy and keep the chain running.
by The Associated Press | Jun 11, 2020
The nation’s largest mall owner is backing out of a $3.6 billion deal to buy a major rival as the coronavirus pandemic shakes the retail industry.
by The Associated Press | May 5, 2020
The exact terms of Massachusetts’ reopening still to be determined, but Americans elsewhere are getting their first taste of what pandemic shopping looks like at their local mall.
by Steve Adams | May 1, 2020
Macy’s stores will begin reopening Monday in five states as the troubled department store chain begins a gradual return to brick-and-mortar operations.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Apr 26, 2020
A hurricane of an economic storm is now headed straight for some of the most successful malls in the region, leaving them suddenly vulnerable in a way that just a few months ago would have seemed impossible.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 18, 2020
One of the country’s largest operators of malls announced it is closing its U.S. properties temporarily due to the coronavirus outbreak.
by The Associated Press | Feb 3, 2020
A consortium of buyers, including mall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners, is bidding $81 million for Forever 21, the ubiquitous mall staple that filed for bankruptcy protection in September.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 6, 2019
Electronic repair specialist uBreakiFix, Modern Acupuncture and Japanese barbecue concept Gyu-Kaku are joining the list of tenants at The Village at Burlington Mall, the redevelopment of the former Sears Auto building.