Chelsea — In the hearts and on the palates of adoring locals for more than a half-century, Golden Cannoli Shells Co. is now extending its flagship dessert product beyond metro Boston where Italian-born cousins Francesco Bono and Angelo Bresciani rolled a shell so superior back in the 1970s rivals ha
Braintree — A one-time Coca-Cola plant that has housed road-paving juggernaut Indus has been acquired by Calare Properties for $18.5 million, backed by a $14.2 million loan from Cambridge Savings Bank. Conrad Group principal James McEvoy negotiated the exchange on behalf of the seller, a fourth-gene
BOSTON—Tenant advisory firm Savills strikes a positive note in its just-released CBD office market survey deeming 2026’s opening frame ‘A Solid Start’ where first-class inventory of 71.9 million sf dipped to 22.6 percent and asking rents achieved $72.24 vs. $70.58 one year ago as landlord-friendly s
FOXBOROUGH—Sometimes, both sides can savor a victory, even denizens of New York and Massachusetts who for decades have grappled on the footballing Patriots’ gridiron across town from Ciminelli Real Estate’s flex/office building the Buffalo investor has pushed to 98 percent leased engaging CBRE’s sub
AYER — Scores of CRE investors were on the sidelines waiting for interest rates and Covid cases to settle down when Lexvest Group brought its value-add program to 11 Westford Rd. via a $7.9 milllion purchase of the 107,000-sf warehouse in spring 2022, and that endeavor has now paid off following its
BURLINGTON—Hopeful signs are creeping back into suburban Boston’s business landscape, with leasing especially vibrant over the past 18 months at top-ranked addresses, yet even declining worker truancies and being a global leader in academia, life sciences and technology have been insufficient eleme
Boston — Ahead of a Special Joint Committee hearing at the Massachusetts State House today, March 17, 2026, on legislation opposing the proposed rent control ballot question, a new research study released late last week finds that, if approved by voters, the measure could reduce Massachusetts pr
BOSTON—Facing an obdurate climate where prime locations and improving metrics still fail to inspire capital and office-averse lenders, global investment manager BentallGreenOak has turned 9-11 Beacon St. over to joint venture partner Synergy Investments for a sharply discounted $23 million where fou
HAVERHILL — As commercial real estate shifts into the critical spring buying season, market watchers are monitoring nascent entries to gauge investor demand, and among the freshest opportunities is a two-building, 107-unit apartment package on the New Hampshire border Cushman & Wakefield rolled out
WATERTOWN—MOB rules—especially when its institutional tenant just inked a full-building lease running into 2041, a key attraction in the $32.1 million trade of 485 Arsenal St. from Boylston Properties and J.P. Morgan to the JLL Income Property Trust by way of subsidiary LaSalle Investment Management
FOXBOROUGH — Talk about going straight from farm to table—and vice versa. “We were actively looking for an investment along those lines, then Foxmeadow Farms landed on our table, and the deal came together pretty quickly from there,” Universal Properties Vice President Brett Levey recounts
BOSTON—Fifteen years after launching the Lofts at Atlantic Wharf as part of an ambitious historic renovation along the city’s waterfront, Boston Properties (BPX:NYSE) is selling all 86 luxury rentals to an investor improbably closer to the mixed-use project than even its homespun developer, AEW Cap
SOUTH BOSTON — For nearly a decade, 546 East Broadway remained one of South Boston’s most intriguing real estate enigmas—a 13,000+ square foot asset that cycled on and off the market for almost eight years. Though its upside was clear, a prolonged zoning process and shifting economic conditions kept