Atlantic Wharf – Boston’s newest skyscraper
Meet Boston’s newest skyscraper – a 31-story glass-walled tower at the corner of Congress Street and Atlantic Avenue in Boston’s Fort Point Channel district. The tower is part of a complex that fills a large gap in the city’s effort to transform the area into a modern waterfront with new residences, restaurants, boating tours, and […]
The Golden Rule Needs Some Polishing
People say that weddings and funerals bring out the best and the worst in people. Well, evidently, so does the snow. Image courtesy of Rochester Media Earlier this week, I parked my car on a street where many commuters park for the train. At the end of the day, I returned to find a very […]
Retail Watch: Nor’easter Challenging SuperValu
Facing identical store sales of a negative 4.9% in its third quarter, grocery store owner operator SuperValu Inc. is planning to cut costs including layoffs and closures and/or the sale of some of its store brands in the Northeast U.S. As a group, SuperValu’s Northeast banners pulled down corporate-wide store sales by more than 150 […]
Woodbury Lakes Lifestyle Center in Minnesota Gets New Lease on Life
There usually are no second acts in real estate. If you develop a property and it does not pan out like you thought, usually another firm gets a chance to clean up the mess. That’s what makes the case of the 305,303 sq. ft. Woodbury Lakes open-air lifestyle center in Woodbury, Minn., a bit […]
…OneBeacon looks for tenants to fill roughly half of its Canton complex.
CANTON — When OneBeacon Insurance Group acquired the former EquiServe headquarters campus in 2005, OneBeacon executives had always envisioned the Canton building as a multi-tenant campus. Finally, the insurance company is ready to share. OneBeacon hosted its first open house for commercial real estate brokers Wednesday as it looks to find tenants to fill as […]
Construction outlook improving in Massachusetts
Massachusetts construction firms say the public sector offers the best growth opportunities for their businesses, although two consecutive years of hardship have left many hesitant to add workers or invest in new equipment. That’s according to a new study by the Associated General Contractors of America, a Virginia-based industry group boasting some 33,000 member firms […]
A community, not just a store
THE REPLACEMENT of Hi-Lo Foods with a new Whole Foods Market will be an epochal event, not just for the changing neighborhood of Jamaica Plain but also for the Latino community that Hi-Lo has served for 47 years. The current store is hardly the most modern of supermarkets, but what it lacks in sophistication it’s […]
A market goes upscale, as does Jamaica Plain itself
End of an era for Latino grocery For Jamaica Plain’s eclectic mix of hipsters, affluent professionals, and working-class Latinos, there has been no starker symbol of transformation in their neighborhood than the one announced yesterday: The tumble-down Latino grocery Hi-Lo Foods will close its doors and reopen as a sparkling new Whole Foods Market. Recent […]
Biotech firm Vertex moving to South Boston waterfront
Drug maker Vertex Pharmaceuticals will relocate to two new buildings on Fan Pier in Boston’s seaport district, the first big trophy in Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s effort to transform the city’s waterfront into an Innovation District filled with technology companies, academic institutions, and medical firms. Vertex has signed a letter of intent to move its […]