Revamped Office Parks Welcome Lab Tenants

The lab and life science market in Greater Boston and across the nation might be cooling off, but there are still some tailwinds benefiting suburban office-to-lab conversions that were set in motion in recent years.

Hot Property: Castle Island Brewing Co.

Boston’s newest brewing and tasting room retains the 18-foot ceilings and exposed concrete of an early 20th-century industrial building that’s part of the Iron Works mixed-use development.

Building a Diverse Pipeline into CRE

Commercial real estate’s lack of diversity is a reflection of its word-of-mouth recruiting networks and the industry’s low profile among college students as a career option. Now, NAIOP-MA says its efforts to attack the problem are starting to pay off.