by Paula Pintos The John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center was founded in 1970 to advance transportation innovation for the public good, and its new building in Cambridge, Massachusetts—designed and engineered by SOM—furthers this critical mission. Conceived as a vertical campus, this building brings the entirety of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center under one […]
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 HOLLY DUTTON Six years ago, Opportunity Zones officially became a reality. The program was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, signed into law by former President Donald Trump in late December 2017. It was hailed as a success—a rare moment of bipartisanship that saw representatives on both sides of the […]
By Rachel Siegel and Jeff Stein After two years of relentless pressureover everything from sky-high inflation to a looming recession, the head of the Federal Reserve was asked this month what he does for fun. “For me, a big, big party — and I mean, this is really as fun as it gets — is a really […]
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 […]
By Greg Ryan One year ago almost to the day, the Nissenbaum family was on the brink of becoming $150 million richer. Things did not go as planned. For much of 2022, the Nissenbaums had a tentative deal in place to sell their car-parts junkyard near Somerville’s Union Square to the real estate developers building the […]
By Steph Solis The creators of a new venture studio in Kendall Square aim to make Massachusetts the global center of the AI industry. Driving the news: CIC, which operates “innovation campuses” worldwide, partnered with C10 Labs, an MIT Media Lab spinout, to launch an AI venture studio space. Why it matters: The founders want to harness […]
By Christopher Anstey (Bloomberg) — Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that “transitory factors” have been one element in a faster slowdown in US inflation than he anticipated. “Given how strong the economy has been, there’s still a surprise in what’s happened to inflation,” Summers said on Bloomberg Television’s Wall Street Week with David Westin. That […]
By David Abel From a distance, the new skyscraper looks like any other generic glass tower looming over downtown Boston. But it’s the bowels of the building — in its curtains of glass, in its thickly insulated walls, and in its specially designed ventilation systems — that make it distinct from the others. The $1.4 […]
By Jon Chesto Revs fans are going to have to wait longer for a shot at their goal: a soccer stadium in the heart of Greater Boston. Legislation that would have paved the way for a New England Revolution stadium to go up along the Mystic River in Everett was sidelined when state House and […]
