Market Updates

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 […]

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 […]

People’s United Financial Inc. bought its third Massachusetts bank in less than a year yesterday, the $493 million purchase of the parent of Danversbank, which has 28 branches from Needham to Manchester-by-the-Sea. The deal would make the Bridgeport, Conn. company the seventh largest bank in Massachusetts and the Boston metro area. In April it took […]

Chicago-based Equity Residential wants to replace the Garden Garage across from the TD Garden with 500 new apartments by fall 2015. Under the $300 million plan filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the 710-space parking facility at 35 Lomasney Way off Martha Road in the West End would be replaced with two buildings. One would […]

Jim Cohen figured it would be a slam-dunk: Bring discount retailer Ocean State Job Lot to a vacant building he owns on a rundown block on Somerville’s Winter Hill. Tweet Be the first to Tweet this!Submit to DiggdiggYahoo! Buzz ShareThis The store would restore some life to the neighborhood, provide several dozen jobs, and offer […]

Call it the Great Migration: The year that was! Boston had an additional 800,000 square feet of office space go vacant while the suburbs filled almost 1 and ¼ million square feet of previously vacant office space. Although this can be attributed to a myriad of factors, the most obvious is money.  Massachusetts employers saved […]

Hostelling International USA has purchased 25 Stuart St. in Boston for $15 million. The nonprofit said the six-story building will serve as a 450-bed hostel, roughly double the size of Hostelling International-Boston’s existing facility at 12 Hemenway St. Hostelling International said it will remain at Hemenway Street until the planned renovations at its new Stuart […]

Robert L. Culver is leaving the helm of MassDevelopment after seven years in the post, the chairman of the agency’s board announced Wednesday. Gregory P. Bialecki, who chairs the board and also is the state’s secretary of housing and economic development, praised Culver for his “passion for rebuilding communities.” Culver, in a prepared statement, called […]

The city has chosen a designers and engineering team for its planned HarborWalk. Now, those designers want to hear how residents think the waterfront walkway should take shape. Cambridge 7 Associates, the lead designer for the $500,000 project, is holding a day for community input on Tuesday, with plans for what they and city officials […]

EVANSTON, Ill.– Industrial employment in Massachusetts fell 1.2% over the past twelve months according to the 2011 Massachusetts Manufacturers Register®, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers’ News, Inc. (MNI) Evanston, IL. Manufacturers’ News reports Massachusetts lost 4,717 industrial jobs over the past twelve months, a significantly smaller loss than the decrease of 11,950 reported […]