Masks will still be required for now in all indoor public places, at all events and outdoors when social distancing is not possible in Massachusetts, despite new guidance from the Centers from Disease Control
Fans of amusement parks and road races in Massachusetts are among those who can begin enjoying loosened pandemic restrictions starting Monday.
Boston Medical Center is planning a new 14-story research building on its South End campus to support its health equity program’s goal that patients are well represented in clinical studies.
Institutional investors rank Boston as the second-most desirable U.S. market for investment in 2021 and the only non-Sunbelt metro in the top four.
With the state on track to reach its goal of fully vaccinating 4.1 million residents by early June, Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts would begin to dial back its reliance on mass vaccination sites and increase vaccine distribution to regional sites, mobile clinics and primary care providers to reach people who have not yet received the vaccine.
The Massachusetts economy grew at a much faster pace than the national economy in the first quarter and the economic analysts at MassBenchmarks see that trend continuing over the coming months.
A 500,000-square-foot life science tower under construction in the Fenway has serious interest from tenants for 84 percent of the building just three months after its acquisition by Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
Daily occupancy at downtown Boston office buildings increased to approximately 11 percent at the end of March as companies resumed a modicum of normalcy amid the vaccine rollout.
With her specialty in interior design, TRIA Architects’ Marilyn Shen says she spends the vast majority of her time anticipating people’s needs and likes. That emphasis has taken on a paramount role in her new position as the Boston-based firm’s director of integrated workplace design.
ZoomInfo employees will return to the office in a hybrid workspace model this summer after the firm signed a 100,000-square-foot lease at Hobbs Brook Real Estate’s 275 Wyman St. property, with plans to expand to 226,000 square feet.
The number of new daily cases of COVID-19 continues to top 2,000 as Massachusetts struggles to tamp down the disease despite increasing numbers of vaccines administered.
Nearly 1.5 million people in Massachusetts are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and almost 3 million vaccine doses have been administered here, but a potentially more contagious mutant form of the virus first identified in Brazil is now spreading through the state.
Cambridge-based biotech investor Flagship Pioneering has picked Somerville’s Boynton Yards to establish a life science research cluster, leasing 208,000-square-foot lease for a group of its companies at Leggat McCall Properties’ 101 South St. development.
A prominent Harvard epidemiologist says the state is in a “race” to vaccinate residents as more highly-contagious strains of COVID-19 begin to spread. The most recent national seven-day average of new cases, at 60,000 per day, is up 10 percent over the prior seven-day period, the CDC says.
The U.S. Small Business Administration will more than triple the maximum amount that small businesses and nonprofit organizations can borrow through the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. The loan limit will increase from $150,000 to $500,000 starting the week of April 6, and the time frame for economic injury will increase from six months to 24 months.
After a broad-based dip in Boston’s luxury condo market in 2020, developers of the Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences have a brighter post-pandemic outlook for sales of 146 condos at their 35-story tower.
After a year of disruption to office occupancy, tenants have more leverage to negotiate deals with landlords in Boston and other cities with gluts of sublease space.
Hotel industry debt markets are starting to recover from COVID-19 shocks but lenders remain skeptical about construction loans until there’s more clarity about post-pandemic travel activity, according to a brokerage report.
All Massachusetts residents ages 16 or older will become eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by April 19, the Baker administration announced Wednesday morning.
Apartment rents dropped by double digits in many high-priced Boston neighborhoods in 2020 amid a rate war as tenants opted for suburban locations for savings, according to a new report.
