Boston Takes Step Forward on Climate Defenses
At last, Boston appears to have a plan to protect one of its most important assets from sea level rise with more than sandbags and hope.
At last, Boston appears to have a plan to protect one of its most important assets from sea level rise with more than sandbags and hope.
As it studies future options for its 34-acre World Shaving Headquarters property in South Boston, Gillette Co. is seeking to remove some state oversight over what could be built next on portions of the prime waterfront real estate.
The Department of Transportation plans to implement a Silver Line ramp shortcut as a permanent feature this spring, less than a year after a pilot program brought significant reductions in travel time.
What was more expensive in 2019: homes in Greenwich, Connecticut or homes in Wellesley?
Greater Boston’s booming real estate industry continues to reshape the local landscape as the real estate cycle passes the decade mark, and 2020 is likely to generate more headlines about how developers are responding to the region’s job growth and housing needs.
One of Boston’s largest life science developers is joining hands with MIT, Harvard and five of the region’s top hospitals in a consortium to build a facility that can spark the next generation of biomedical innovation and manufacturing in Greater Boston.
After landing big leases from Amazon and Foundation Medicine for new office buildings in Boston’s Seaport District, WS Development is seeking approval to accommodate more commercial tenants.
Many Bostonians of color find one of the city’s crowning jewels, the Seaport District, a hostile and unwelcoming place, a new survey has found. Fortunately, there’s still time to do something about it.
Boston’s Seaport is a thriving, robust neighborhood about to deliver more than 30 million square feet of premier office, residential and retail spaces across hundreds of acres of open space, waterfront views and cultural institutions. While commanding some of the highest rents and sales prices in the city, there is an underlying concern related to climate change, resiliency and sustainability.
A new survey has found significant numbers of Boston’s black and Latino residents see the Seaport as a hostile and unwelcoming place, and many city residents feel the area is too expensive and exclusive.
Millennium Partners seeks to build 900,000 square feet of office and research space in one of the “signature redevelopment parcels” within South Boston’s Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park once linked to a proposed Seaport gondola.
For the second time in seven days, an office tower broke ground in the Seaport as Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh joined leaders from the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. to celebrate the start of construction at 10 Fan Pier Blvd.
Amid charges it is bowing unnecessarily to unreasonable State Police demands, the governing boards for the MBTA and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation on Monday backed a plan to let airport-bound Silver Line buses use a dedicated on-ramp into the Ted Williams Tunnel during rush hour.
Michael Fallon was appointed president of The Fallon Co., just last month, but the 30-year-old real estate executive is already thinking about the long-term legacy of the Boston-based development company founded by his father Joseph in 1993.
Related Beal has acquired 6.5 acres of the Gillette campus in South Boston, in the second development site megadeal in a week for the Fort Point neighborhood.
Foley Hoag LLP has signed a 15-year lease renewal at Seaport West in Boston’s Seaport District. The law firm will continue to occupy 165,000 square feet on five floors for its global headquarters.
Multifamily investor-developer Greystar has hired Gary Kerr as managing director of development for its New England projects.
One of Boston’s biggest office tower landlords is partnering with a mainstay of the Seaport District’s marine industrial park on long-term real estate opportunities.
With the highways and public transit options around Boston perpetually congested, a new study funded in part by the state details potential new ferry routes to connect downtown Boston with East Boston and the Seaport, Columbia Point and Squantum Point in Quincy.
A Korean investor is partnering with Cottonwood Group on its $950 million EchelonSeaport development and future projects in the U.S.