We Must Rebrand Housing as a Benefit, Not a Burden
I’m often asked by area business owners and residents, “What can we do to support solutions to our housing issues in our own communities?” The answer sometimes surprises people in its simplicity.
An Evolving Approach to the Entitlement Process
When Dallas-based Hillwood Investment Properties sought to develop a 4.2 million-square-foot campus including a new Amazon distribution facility in North Andover, it turned to John Smolak.
Blakeley Shaped Local Economy and Development Patterns
Gerald W. Blakeley Jr.’s fingerprints are on many of Greater Boston’s dominant real estate development patterns of the past half-century, from the emergence of Route 128 as “America’s Technology Highway” to the growth of East Cambridge and revival of downtown Boston.
Greatland Pays $66M for HIP District Property
Greatland Realty Partners is the first developer to respond to the town of Lexington’s Hartwell Innovation Park (HIP) rezoning with its acquisition of a four-building, 289,000-square-foot complex.
Riverside Lab Proposal Could Get Boost from Housing Choice
Mark Development’s proposal to add life science uses to its 1 million-square-foot Riverside development will be one of the first tests of Massachusetts’ three-month-old Housing Choice law which offers lower hurdles to rezone properties.
