| The Boston Policy Institute says its goal is to shine a light on city development policy and other top issues. But its refusal to make public its sources of funding – and the not altogether happy history one of its founders shares with Mayor Michelle Wu – has prompted whispers of grudge-settling.
CommonWealth Beacon investigated the shadowy think-tank and the uproar caused by its report predicting a $1 billion budget gap in the city of Boston due to declining commercial real estate values.
What else is on tap today?
- Construction Loan: A former church in Fall River will be converted into 46 new market-rate homes thanks to a loan from Rockland Trust.
- Healey, Wu to Climate Conference: Two of the state’s leading politicians will discuss “governing in the age of climate change” and “governance, health and energy.” Both administrations are grappling with how to drive decarbonization in the state’s building sector.
- Luxury Listings Pick Up: Numbers of new listings at the very high end of the Greater Boston home-sale market are on the rise, even as sales totals lagged in the market’s traditional downtown-area core in the first quarter.
Show me the data!
Here’s who’s leading the pack among Essex County mortgage lenders.
What did I miss?
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- Behind the scenes of Boston’s troubled office market, landlords are turning to Wall Street to restructure their existing debt, keep control of properties and avoid foreclosure.
- In less than two months, hundreds of Realtors from across the commonwealth will gather under the gold dome of the Massachusetts State House. Here’s what They’ll be calling for.
- Boston-based developer The Davis Cos. hired architects Fogarty Finger to redesign its longtime headquarters overlooking the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the firm’s first project in Boston.
