In normal times, developers push hard to get local and state approvals as fast as possible. Time is money and delays in construction can prove costly.But these are not ordinary times.
Instead of lobbying for swifter action, the development industry’s local trade group is pushing state lawmakers to let builders across the Bay State take a [...]

House Speaker Robert DeLeo is finally showing his cards when it comes to legalizing expanded gambling in the Bay State.
But if you think we are getting a Foxwoods style resort anytime soon, you can just keep dreaming.
Despite talk about two casinos, the core of the House leader’s plan is for a more down and dirty [...]

Spring is around the corner. And with it are some hopeful signs the worst of the real estate downturn may be finally over for Hub neighborhoods that have borne the brunt of the bad times.
Sure, condo prices and sales finally slowed in downtown Boston, but Dorchester, Roxbury, East Boston, Mattapan and Hyde Park saw [...]

Simply put, not well right now when compared to many other cities across the country.

The Hub is emerging as a leader of sorts in the nation’s office market. But let’s just say the categories it is a standout are not so hot, according to data culled from the just released, Jones Lang LaSalle [...]

One of the nation’s top real estate moguls, Zuckerman’s recent decision to spend tens of millions on new presses for the Daily News down in New York has always mystified me.
Don’t get me wrong – I love newspapers, but maybe now isn’t the time for massive capital investments in print.
Now Zuckerman’s decision makes a [...]

We all know that Liberty Mutual will get a pretty nice city tax break in exchange for expanding its long-time Boston headquarters.
But here’s the other piece to that deal, and it makes it even sweeter – the tax increment financing agreement also entitles the insurer to millions more in state tax benefits.
How much? According [...]

Looks like I’m in good company in going to bat for our state’s promising but embattled film and TV industry.
My B&T column Monday argued state officials are on the wrong track as they seek to slash in half a film industry tax credit that has brought a bevy of Hollywood productions into the state [...]

As I noted recently in my Commercial Interests column for B&T, the FBI is looking seriously at building its long-planned regional headquarters over in South Boston.
After several years checking out sites in Southie and in some of the suburbs and cities that ring the Hub, the FBI is focusing on a site controlled by [...]

There were signs right up until the end of 2009 that commercial real estate prices might finally be stabilizing after a decline that has rivaled the residential market bloodbath.
But the road to recovery looks like it will be a long and winding one, with more signs of trouble emerging.
An index put out by the [...]

Everyone may simply have their eye on the wrong ball.

Clearly, the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy has had a huge impact on the nation’s health care debate, though not exactly in the way the late senator would have envisioned.
But what executives around town are really talking about is what is going to happen to all [...]