Two historic Greater Boston theaters are on the market for $12 million each,but the beloved venues inside aren’t going anywhere just yet. The sale of the Somerville Theatre and Capitol Theatre buildings highlights the intersection of commercial real estate investment, historic preservation, and the future of longstanding cultural institutions.
Explore ABG Realty’s 2026 Midyear Review, featuring notable transactions from the first half of the year, key trends shaping Greater Boston’s commercial real estate market, and the latest insights across the office, retail, industrial, and multifamily sectors.
Greater Boston’s retail real estate market is entering the second half of 2026 with limited available space, resilient rent growth, and continued interest from retailers looking to expand throughout the region. While economic uncertainty and slower leasing activity have created some challenges, the market’s constrained supply continues to support relatively strong fundamentals. For tenants, property […]
In early April 2026, Bloomberg reported that U.S. service‑sector growth slowed materially even as input prices surged, as reflected in the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Services Prices Paid Index rising to 70.7—its highest level since October 2022.¹ This combination of decelerating activity and elevated costs is particularly relevant for Boston‑area commercial real estate, where […]
Source: BRET NEWTON, Mass.— An Atlanta-based developer is pitching a new 234-unit apartment project near a Whole Foods Market in Newton, adding to a growing pipeline of large-scale residential developments along Crafts Street, according to the Boston Business Journal (BBJ). According to BBJ, Wood Partners has proposed developing the apartments at 38 Crafts St., a […]
Gary Higgins A stretch of Dudley Street in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner is among the areas that will see new opportunities for restaurants to serve alcohol. Dorchester is set to receive seven of the 21 new liquor licenses recently approved by the Boston Licensing Board as part of the city’s effort to expand alcohol service in […]
By Scott Kirsner Raibert Opens Pop-Up Robot Lab to Inspire and Educate Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics and current executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI), has launched a temporary Robot Lab at CambridgeSide mall. The pop-up isn’t selling robots; instead, it gives the public hands-on experience with robotics to show what they […]
By Isabel Hart – Reporter, Boston Business Journal Bertucci’s, a once-popular casual dining chain known for its brick oven pizza and signature bread rolls, is testing a new fast-casual concept called Bertucci’s Pronto in Downtown Boston. After filing for bankruptcy twice—in 2018 and 2022—the brand is pivoting under the direction of owner Robert Earl (Earl Enterprises) to […]
The theater has been vacant on Church Street since 2012. The Cambridge City Council wants to question the owner about its reopening. By Molly Farrar Harvard Square is marred by at least a dozen of vacant storefronts, including, notably, the nearly century-old Harvard Square Theatre on Church Street. It’s been closed since 2012, and, after a failed […]
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 […]
