By: Emily Fu North River Leerink (NRL) has announced that 100 Chestnut, a purpose-built 200,000 square feet life Science building in Somerville, MA, is 90% leased. Ultragenyx, relocating from Kendall Square, has leased 42,500 square feet to consolidate their east coast R&D. CRADL has leased 16,000 square feet to open a contract vivarium and in […]
By NEREJ Somerville, MA According to Rafi Properties, owner and operator of Somernova, the 7.4-acre innovation campus and community dedicated to helping people and companies iterate and grow faster, Sublime Systems (Sublime) will expand their headquarters on the campus. Sublime, the leading developer of a fossil-fuel-free, scalable, drop-in replacement for traditional cement in concrete, will add […]
By Rowan Walrath Somerville’s bluebird bio Inc. has won its third U.S. drug approval since splitting into two companies. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved lovo-cel, a gene therapy for sickle-cell disease. The drug will be marketed under the name Lyfgenia. The FDA announced Lyfgenia’s approval at the same time it said it had approved […]
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 Greg Ryan The real estate firm behind Somerville’s Somernova business campus is proposing to replace the low-slung structures now on the site with a $3.3 billion redevelopment featuring five significantly taller buildings aimed at “tough tech” tenants. Right now, the 7.5-acre Somernova campus — located off Somerville Avenue, a half-mile west of Union Square — […]
By Lucia Maffei After a national search that lasted months, Somerville-based Greentown Labs has found its new leader. The largest climatetech incubator in North America said Thursday it appointed Kevin Knobloch as its next CEO. He plans to start on Sept. 5. Knobloch, 66, served as chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Energy during […]
By Greg Ryan With the help of a crowdfunding platform, a Boston-based real estate development firm and its partner have acquired a nearly 12-acre commercial property in Somerville’s Assembly Square for $142.5 million. A joint venture between Cabot Cabot & Forbes and a Cannon Hill Capital Partners fund bought 65-75 Mystic Ave., a site adjacent to […]
By Greg Ryan Consigli Construction Co. last week topped off a nine-story lab building under development from CV Properties and Cannon Hill Capital Partners in Somerville’s Union Square. Boynton Gateway, as the 336,000-square-foot project located at 495 Columbia St. is known, is one of several lab projects at various stages of development in the neighborhood. Union […]
After about a decade in the role, Emily Reichert has left her role at the helm of one of the largest climate-tech startup incubators in North America. Reichert confirmed on Thursday she stepped down as CEO of Somerville-based Greentown Labs. Her last day was Dec. 5. Greentown Labs published the news on its website Monday, but […]
Somerville’s planning board is meeting next month to consider the next step in developer US2’s nine-story life sciences building in Union Square. US2 has proposed a 280,000-square-foot mixed-use development with ground-level retail at 50 Webster Ave. The project would kick off the second phase of the USQ development, one of the most important components in […]
