Downtown Landlords Expand Ground-Floor Horizons
If downtown Boston fully regains its retail footings, it will be through discarding cookie-cutter leasing strategies reliant on fast-casual franchises and clothing chains.
If downtown Boston fully regains its retail footings, it will be through discarding cookie-cutter leasing strategies reliant on fast-casual franchises and clothing chains.
Behind the scenes of Boston’s troubled office market, landlords and lenders are seeking ways to restructure their existing debt, keep control of properties and avoid foreclosure.
Office vacancies in Boston rose slightly in the first quarter, and a wave of expiring leases in coming months will provide hints at the future direction of the market.
Avison Young completed a debt restructuring deal after defaulting on payments in the second half of 2023 and agreed to appoint a new board of directors.
2024 promises to be a year of reckoning for many Boston-area commercial property owners as rising vacancies and expiring mortgages threaten their once-lucrative business plans.
Construction cranes everywhere. Big tenants’ space backfilled when they move to a new tower. If you didn’t know better, Boston’s office market might seem like it’s humming along in a strong economy.
A Boston company that develops drone technology for the agriculture sector expanded with relocation to the Schrafft Center in Charlestown.
A Billerica manufacturer will relocate to the former Puma headquarters in Westford in a move that reduces its space footprint by more than half.
Greater Boston’s 16 million-square-foot lab construction pipeline used to represent an exclamation point for the region’s life science industry. Today, it’s one of the biggest question marks in the local commercial real estate market.
As life science tenant space requirements become scarcer in the more conservative venture capital climate, Boston area developers are adapting to the new leasing landscape with incubator space aimed at small startups.
John Dolan – also known as the Bruins’ PA announcer – takes over leadership of brokerage Avison Young’s New England region at a critical moment in the region’s commercial real estate industry.
Who’s on the move? From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: It’s the latest installment of Banker & Tradesman’s Personnel File.
Avison Young has named a new head of its Boston and Connecticut operations to fill the shoes Thomas Collins left on his retirement.
Greater Boston’s office market faces a year of reckoning in 2023 amid a wave of lease expirations and dwindling lab conversion activity, commercial real estate brokers predict.
Reebok is offering the vast majority of its Seaport District headquarters for sublease, amid a wave of downsizing by Boston office tenants that is pushing sublease availabilities to record highs.
A Boston fintech company is opening its first dedicated offices after subleasing space at Downtown Crossing.
Massachusetts is experiencing significant real estate activity associated with life sciences, but landlords and tenants should consider several issues before making financial commitments to these projects.
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: it’s The Personnel File.
After failing to secure an office tenant for its Burlington Woods Drive spec development, Gutierrez Cos. decided to test the 110,000-square-foot building’s desirability among life science companies.
Data that tracks the movements of cell phone users tells a stark story of two workplace cultures in the COVID era. Employee and visitor foot traffic at life science building is significantly above that leased to traditional downtown office tenants.