By Grant Welker – Projects Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 27, 2023 A new grocery store in Norwood takes the pandemic trend toward online ordering a step further. At Addie’s on Route 1, the entire 22,000-square-foot store is devoted to employees filling orders to be brought out to the cars of shoppers who ordered online. The timing may […]
BOSTON–Conversions of outdated office buildings to other uses such as multifamily complexes, life sciences labs and hotels have garnered widespread attention as the office market adapts to hybrid work. Still, conversion projects in the works represent only a small fraction of the overall market, according to a new report from CBRE. CBRE’s analysis found 218 […]
Rent control advocates in Boston are once again pushing for new rent control laws. Of course they are. Apartment rents rose 17 percent in Boston over the last year, on average, including concessions. There’s no relief in the short term either. Market observers predict rents are likely to keep rising sharply through the rest of the […]
MetLife Investment Management has completed its $103 million purchase of Burlington BioCenter, a 109,085-square-foot life science research and pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Burlington, Mass. Public records show MetLife financed the acquisition with a $54.4 million loan from Northwestern Mutual. Newmark represented the seller, a joint venture between The Gutierrez Company and GEM Realty Capital, and procured the buyer. The partnership had […]
A clear number for how many people Twitter is laying off in Boston is finally emerging, after a week of speculation following Elon Musk‘s $44 billion takeover of the company, thanks to an official state document obtained by the Business Journal. The social media giant told state officials on Friday that it will be conducting a […]
President Joe Biden is infusing billions of dollars into a new, biotech-focused initiative, and it’s likely to have immediate ramifications for New England. Boston has long been a hotbed for pharmaceuticals in addition to upstart biotechs. But the White House is expanding the definition of what a “bioeconomy” could be, looking beyond drugmaking to other applications of […]
by Boston Planning & Development Agency, Research Division. Driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for biomedical research has strengthened growth trends in the life science industry in Boston, impacting both real estate and employment. According to CBRE, the city of Boston has over 12 million square feet of life science lab space, with […]
by Steve Adams / via Banker & Tradesman A lease by a second major tenant could fill up the 1 million-square-foot One Congress office tower at Boston’s Government Center well before its scheduled completion in January. Developers of the 600-foot tower and future State Street Corp. headquarters are in talks with a tenant that could […]
by Ben Unglesbee | via Retail Dive For supply chains, the pandemic has brought unprecedented levels of disruption. The specific confluence of events was beyond anybody’s ability to foresee. But, at least in a general sense, everyone should have expected something like the year that just passed to happen. Risks of severe stress and even failure are […]
by Greg Ryan | via Boston Business Journal Commercial property sales hit a record high in the Boston market last year, making the Hub the top-performing real estate market on the East Coast second only to Atlanta, according to a new report from Real Capital Analytics. The region saw $25 billion in sales in 2021, […]
