By Grant Welker – Projects Reporter, Boston Business Journal Developer and Sal’s Pizza founder Sal Lupoli is launching a major mixed-use project in Littleton, transforming a former IBM office campus into King Street Common — a 50-acre development with more than 1,000 housing units, 115,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and a 150-room hotel. The […]
By MARTHA BELLISLE Washington state has enacted new rent stabilization laws, becoming one of the first states to set firm limits on rent increases to protect tenants. Signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson, House Bill 1217 caps rent hikes at 7% plus inflation or 10% (whichever is lower) and includes single-family homes and manufactured housing, the latter […]
by Kim O’Brien While we are still firmly in the most prolific apartment building cycle in U.S. history, supply volumes have finally peaked. The first time apartment supply volumes hit a historic peak was back in 2nd quarter 2023, when quarterly completions surpassed 100,000 units for the first time since RealPage Market Analytics began monitoring the market […]
Activity surges to highest level in more than five years By Phil Mobley Growing economic uncertainty was not enough to stem the tide of tenants’ appetite for U.S. office space in the first quarter of the year. Office-seeking companies leased an estimated 115 million square feet in the first three months of 2025, according to preliminary […]
By Greg Ryan Home Depot Inc. has paid $72 million to acquire a large chunk of a Watertown property that hosts one of its stores, though a Boston real estate developer continues to have preliminary approval to put a lab building on part of the site. Following the transaction earlier this month, Boylston Properties still owns a […]
By Isabel Hart The plans to restore and renovate the historic Hotel Alexandra on the border of Boston’s South End and Roxbury neighborhoods have changed many times over the past several years, but developers of the property said they are close to getting the go-ahead from city planners. The newest version of the proposal for the Victorian […]
By Michael Silverman and Jon Chesto The New England Revolution just secured a crucial assist from the state Legislature to help build a soccer stadium in Everett. But it’s just the first of many issues to be resolved before they can reach that ultimate goal. Among the remaining questions: Is it financially feasible for the Kraft Group, […]
By Linda Moss Eataly, the global Italian gourmet market and restaurant chain, is venturing outside cities such as New York and Chicago into the suburbs to rapidly expand in North America. In so doing, it’s showing how suburban malls are attracting traditionally urban tenants. The company opened its first location in New Jersey at the upscale Mall […]
By Greg Ryan The potential soccer stadium in Everett may be getting lots of attention, but there’s another real estate-related provision in the state economic development bill that would have a far broader effect on the industry. The legislation, unveiled on Tuesday, extends approvals for building and other permits by two years statewide. The blanket extension would give […]
By Chris Lisinski The Kraft family would clear a key hurdle toward building a new professional soccer stadium in Everett under a nearly $4 billion bill on the move this week whose economic impacts reach across nearly every business sector. Top Democrats on Tuesday evening filed a compromise economic development bill months after their deadline-day talks […]
