By James McCown CAMBRIDGE — “In the city there must be regularity and fantasy, relationships and oppositions, and casual and unexpected elements to vary the scene,” wrote Marc-Antoine Laugier, an 18th-century Jesuit and arguably the world’s first architecture critic, having penned the seminal Essai Sur l’Architecture in 1753. His advice holds true today. Cities must be […]
David R. Baker (Bloomberg) — Startup Electric Hydrogen Co. plans to open its first factory for making electrolyzers — the machines at the heart of a future green hydrogen economy – in Massachusetts. It’s the latest in a wave of clean-tech manufacturing projects announced across the US. The company, backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy […]
By Jack Rogers | April 25, 2023 at 04:10 PM In a sign that one of the strongest life sciences markets in the US is weakening, Alexandria Real Estate Equities is offering for sale a suburban Boston office complex valued at $170 million, a 28% discount, after a softening market changed plans to convert the property to life […]
By Andrew Brinker Globe Correspondent,Updated March 2, 2023, 6:25 p.m Ever since word spread through Braintree of a 495-unit apartment complex proposed at the South Shore Plaza, an organized opposition campaign has been ramping up. Lawn signs decrying the “monster project” are appearing around town, and some residents are urging the Planning Board to deny the […]
By Hannah Green – Inno Reporter January 26, 2023, 10:12am EST China has a tight grip on the rare earth elements supply chain. The country was responsible for 80% of rare earth imports in 2019, per the U.S. Geological Survey, and works in mining, processing and refining these materials into metals that are used in products like electric […]
Most of them develop drugs. One of them imports and sells fossil fuels. Another one sells sand. The 20 Massachusetts-based companies with the largest stock gains over the course of 2022 (as of Friday, Dec. 16) span a range of industries. But, as is the case in most years, the majority are small biotech companies […]
ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Eviation Aircraft, an Arlington company that has built a fully electric commuter airplane, got a boost this week when one of the nation’s largest commuter airlines, Cape Air, signed a letter of intent to buy 75 of the Eviation Alice model. The nine-passenger airplane, which produces no carbon emissions, is expected […]
Massachusetts chain stores may be allowed to have 18 beer and wine licenses by 2031, which would double the current threshold should a ballot referendum succeed at the polls this November. Advancing Ballot Question 3 would gradually raise the alcohol license threshold for retailers, initially to 12 licenses in 2023 and to 15 licenses in […]
Last year, Massachusetts was ranked among the top 15 states for business by CNBC. This year, the state dropped down from 14th to 24th. Each year, CNBC creates its America’s Top States for Business list by scoring all 50 states on 88 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. These include categories like access to capital, infrastructure, […]
For more than a month, the campaign championing a special tax on the wealthy has blasted TV airwaves with a simple message: “They pay less and we pay more.” “They” are the people who earn more than $1 million a year, as one ad intones and pans to a shot of a businessman boarding a private jet. […]
