When Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell first came to the United States from England in the 1990s, he was struck by the dogged American work ethic. “It was a culture that was much more organized around work than in the U.K. When I was growing up, there wasn’t quite the same heroism about long hours,” he recalled, […]
A new ownership group is revising plans for a commercial development on the outskirts of Somerville’s Union Square, dropping a 330-room hotel while retaining a pair of office-lab towers. Capital Hall Partners, Spaulding & Slye Investments and Union Square master developer US2 are partnering on the 980,000-square-foot Gateway Innovation Center project at 200 McGrath Highway, […]
It has been a brutal half-decade for retail owners amid record-breaking retailer bankruptcies and a pandemic that brought in-person shopping to a temporary halt. But the fundamentals of retail real estate are looking better now that at any point in over a decade, according to a new report. Retail availability nationwide is at its lowest […]
JLL has arranged a $230-million construction loan for the development of 15 McGrath Highway, a speculative life sciences development totaling 262,000 square feet in Somerville, MA. Brett Paulsrud, Henry Schaffer and Mike Shepard of JLL represented DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, Leggat McCall Properties and Deutsche Finance America to secure the non-recourse construction loan with Oxford Properties Group. “Greater Boston continues […]
Developers are adding outdoor co-working space — bocce ball, anyone? — to attract remote workers to stores and restaurants By Katherine Shaver via The Washington Post On a recent weekday afternoon at Northern Virginia’s Mosaic District, a nail salon was two-thirds full, diners in business casual were clustered around sidewalk tables and remote workers tapped […]
By Arnobio Morelix Latinx founders are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in America–but their businesses are struggling to scale. While the percentage of Americans running a business has stagnated at 6.2 percent over the past two decades, Latinx founders have rocketed from 6.5 percent of all entrepreneurs in 2001 to 15 percent as of 2019, making them […]
By Jeff Cox via CNBC Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell emphasized his resolve to get inflation down, saying Tuesday he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level. “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral we won’t hesitate to do that,” the central bank leader told The Wall […]
Via The New York Times U.S. added 428,000 jobs in April as the labor market remained vibrant. April produced another solid month of job growth, the Labor Department reported Friday, reflecting the economy’s resilient rebound from the pandemic’s devastation. U.S. employers added 428,000 jobs, the department said, the same as the revised figure for March. […]
