The Biosecure Act could ban Chinese biotechs and hurt Mass. drug developers. But some see an opportunity for local R&D.By Hannah Green Driven by concerns over national security, the federal government is weighing a crackdown on Chinese biotechnology suppliers that would have far-reaching effects in the life sciences industry. The legislation, known as the Biosecure Act, would prevent biotech […]
By JLL In the past 12 months, Boston has emerged as the top major market in the United States for workers returning to the office. According to foot traffic data from Placer.AI, office attendance in Boston has increased by 10.3% during this period, marking a significant improvement from a year ago when the city lagged in […]
By Jon Chesto When demand for office space cratered during the COVID-19 pandemic, many developersdoubled down on building lab space instead. Lately, it sure seems like they went overboard. With newly builtlife sciences buildings hitting the market at a much faster rate than they can be filled, the availability of lab space in Greater Boston […]
By Greg Ryan The downtown Boston office market has captured the lion’s share of local attention — and alarm — since Covid-19 upended the five-day, in-office workweek. But now there’s cause for concern across the Charles River for the 12 million square feet of offices in Cambridge. A CBRE report this month found that, for the first time since the […]
By Greg Ryan Five years ago, nearly half of the region’s lab space was in Cambridge, according to CBRE research. Today, about a third is. But a life sciences facility is not a “Field of Dreams.” Just because developers built labs in new places does not mean the biotechs will come — at least in this real estate market. […]
By Greg Ryan A unit of the German software maker SAP is subleasing a floor of office space at 60 State St. in downtown Boston, nearly doubling its footprint at its Watertown location. SAP LeanIX (NYSE: SAP) is taking about 25,000 square feet from LinkSquares at the Boston office tower, with plans to move into the […]
By Mark Heschmeyer Alexandria Real Estate Equities has extended the ground lease on its seven-building Technology Square campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from an affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 24 years at a cost of $270 million. The deal extends the term from January 2065 to December 2088, according to the San Diego-based firm’s […]
By Mary C. Serreze The mid-July failure of a 350-foot offshore wind blade off the coast of Massachusetts was caused by a “manufacturing deviation” at a factory in Canada, according to Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV), maker of the defective component. “We have no indications of an engineering design flaw — that’s important […]
By Jeanne Whalen Americans’ once-in-a-generation job market has come to an end. The red-hot hiring and rock-bottom unemployment that helped millions of workers find new gigs, boost their wages and reinvent their careers are giving way to more prosaic times. While the market is still healthy by many measures, signs of difficulty are creeping in. The […]
By Sam Goldfarb, Peter Santilli and Anthony DeBarros The Wall Street Journal’s latest quarterly survey of business and academic economists shows forecasters remain firmly optimistic about the economic outlook, despite some hints of weakness in recent data. The following graphics show what economists are thinking now and how their forecasts—and the economy—have evolved over recent months and years. After looking at […]
