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• May 09, 2011
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  Linear Retail Close on $8M RI Buy as New England Portfolio Continues 2011 Expansion

  May 09, 2011 | Joe Clements

  EAST GREENWICH, RI—Linear Retail Properties is making another foray into the Ocean State for its ever-growing fiefdom of convenience-oriented retail, this time committing to purchase a Route One strip center being marketed by Cushman & Wakefield at a price estimatedto be in the $8 million range.

• May 02, 2011
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  Hartwell Avenue Lights Up With 60,000-SF Alexandria Lab Lease

  May 02, 2011 | Joe Clements

  LEXINGTON, MA—Things are looking brighter every day on Hartwell Avenue. The latest shining example of the thoroughfare’s re-energized milieu is a 60,000-sf, full-building lease of 29 Hartwell Ave. by QD Vision, whose Quantum Light nano-materials product is sparking rapid growth and a need to expand

• May 02, 2011
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  Revitalized Assets Fostering a Sale as Parsons Commercial Hired to Market Littleton Buildings

  May 02, 2011 | Joe Clements

  LITTLETON, MA—Turnaround times of troubled real estate can vary greatly, but the new stewards of 295 and 305 Foster St. are moving quicker than most in welcoming bids for the two flex/office buildings acquired in September through a friendly foreclosure. Enthused by a pair of tenant commitments and

• April 25, 2011
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  TIAA Retains Cushman & Wakefield to Pitch Edgewater Office Park Holdings

  April 25, 2011 | Joe Clements

  WAKEFIELD, MA—After making a big splash on the acquisitions front last week in buying a Medford apartment building for $79.9 million, pension fund giant Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association is juggling its local commercial real estate portfolio even more by offering up a block of prime office

• April 25, 2011
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  Eastdil Hired to Sell 106,000-SF Marlborough Asset for New Boston Fund

  April 25, 2011 | Joe Clements

  MARLBOROUGH—On the cusp of trading a Cambridge laboratory facility, the New Boston Fund is spinning out another long-held Bay State property, the newest one being 33 Boston Post Rd. in the Interstate 495 West submarket.

• April 25, 2011
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  Special Servicer Puts 293,000-SF Hartford Trophy Up for Sale; C&W to Market Metro Center

  April 25, 2011 | Joe Clements

  HARTFORD, CT—The foreclosure crisis is finally becoming an opportunity for investors seeking to scoop up commercial real estate below replacement cost, and the trend that has already taken hold across Massachusetts is now coming to roost here in Connecticut’s beleaguered capital city.

• April 18, 2011
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  Retail Trade Near $87M as Eight Retail Centers Trading in Deal Brokered by C&W

  April 18, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON — Eight grocery anchored shopping centers stretching from Maine to Rhode Island are being scooped up by a joint venture of WP Realty and Angelo Gordon & Co., industry sources are telling The Real Reporter. Totaling 650,000 sf, the package listed by Cushman & Wakefield is said to be fetching

• April 18, 2011
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  Colliers Juggling $17M-Plus in Deals as Properties in Boston, Cambridge Put Under Contract

  April 18, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—A former bank headquarters in the Financial District and a Cambridge lab property are the latest CRE opportunities nearing resolution in separate negotiations being handled by Colliers International. Sources have identified Charles River Realty Investors and National Development

• April 18, 2011
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  CBRE/NE Hired to Sell 125 and 150 CambridgePark Dr. for Barclays Capital

  April 18, 2011 | Joe Clements

  CAMBRIDGE—The Alewife submarket has struggled, and an overleveraged capital stack toppled over last autumn at 125 and 150 CambridgePark Dr., but both distressed properties are nonetheless hitting the sales block, with reluctant owner Barclays Capital hiring CBRE/New England to find a buyer for the

• April 07, 2011
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  $100M-Plus Target Seen as Eastdil Hired to Peddle Campus at Marlborough

  April 07, 2011 | Joe Clements

  MARLBOROUGH, MA—There may be trouble down below, but from its hillside perch, The Campus at Marlborough seems unaffected, continuing to attract high rents and the country’s hottest companies, most recently leasing 38,000 sf to coveted EMC Corp. spinoff VCE Systems. Owners of the three-building,

• April 05, 2011
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  RBJ officeSTATus Survey: 2011 Office Market a Numbers Game

  April 05, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Five, 80 and 15—that is how Richards Barry Joyce & Partners research chief Brendan Carroll quantifies Greater Boston’s office market as the second quarter of 2011 commences. Carroll’s generally upbeat Q1 report concludes that the top 5 percent best properties are sailing along, whereas the

• April 04, 2011
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  Comeback on Tap for Braintree Park after $6.9M Loan Payback by Owner Grossman Cos.

  April 04, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BRAINTREE—The family lumber operation’s once-ubiquitous “Here Comes Grossmans” slogan made them a household name across New England, but the Grossman Cos. could soon be also known as a comeback player for righting their landmark Braintree Executive Park, a two-building, 125,000-sf asset that has

• March 29, 2011
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  Davis Hires Stephen Rice, Marcus Tabs David Fiore to Run Respective CT Operations

  March 29, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Some breakups are more complicated than others, and then there are those that just seem that way. Case in point on the latter would seem to be the continued reshuffling of a partnership between investors Jonathan G. Davis and Paul R. Marcus, longtime colleagues who opted to go their separate

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