By: Emily Fu North River Leerink (NRL) has announced that 100 Chestnut, a purpose-built 200,000 square feet life Science building in Somerville, MA, is 90% leased. Ultragenyx, relocating from Kendall Square, has leased 42,500 square feet to consolidate their east coast R&D. CRADL has leased 16,000 square feet to open a contract vivarium and in […]
By Grant Welker There isn’t enough new housing being built in the Boston area to suddenly make the region affordable. But builders are finding places to build — mainly in former industrial pockets in such places as Everett and South Boston, as well as relatively less-dense neighborhoods in Allston and Quincy. Residential developments now under construction […]
By Marian Zboraj Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. has high expectations for 2024. Amid the release of its impressive results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ending Dec. 31, results, the specialty grocer released its outlook for the year. The outlook includes net sales growth of 5.5% to 7.5%, comparable-store sales growth of 1.5% to […]
By John Hilliard WALTHAM — Reggie Clark is 70, but memories of his childhood years at the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center during the 1960s are painfully clear. He considers himself a survivor of the now-closed state school in Waltham that was the home to generations of people with developmental or physical disabilities. Patients weren’t […]
By Greg Ryan Boston-based Rafi Properties has withdrawn a zoning proposal that would enable the firm to build taller at its Somernova business campus in Somerville, with plans to refile the measure this spring after more discussions with local officials and residents. Last year, Rafi proposed replacing Somernova’s low-slung structures with five significantly taller buildings totaling nearly 2 […]
By Charlie Breitrose Developers heard from dozens of residents who showed up Monday night for an in-person community meeting about the project proposed for the former Cannistraro site, pro and against. Many with concerns lived in the residential neighborhood across the street, who fear they will be negatively impacted by the size of, and noise and […]
By Boston Real Estate Times CAMBRIDGE, MA—Although Maureen McCaffrey manages planning and development of capital projects in MIT’s Cambridge commercial real estate portfolio, don’t get surprised if you hear her “break into song” with the slightest trigger of a word or phrase. “One out of every hundred people find it amusing! Keeping with the music theme, I […]
By: Emily Fu Trammell Crow Residential (TCR), part of Crow Holdings, has initiated construction on Alexan Peabody, a 180-unit luxury multifamily residence in Peabody, Massachusetts, slated for completion in Q4 2025. Located along Route 1 at 128 Newbury Street, the development offers studio to three-bedroom units, including 25% affordable housing at 80% of Area […]
BY REENA KARASIN Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. There’s an incredible amount of work and collaboration needed to get these technologies out of the lab and into the world, from early-stage funding, to pilot projects, to first commercial […]
By Boston Restaurant Talk A new dining and drinking spot has come to Cambridge after being in the works for at least six years. According to an Instagram post from the place, Mothership is now open in the Alewife area of the city, moving into a building on CambridgePark Drive that is also home to a location […]
