BILLERICA—Helping invigorate the suburban north investment sales market, a triumvirate of commercial buildings owned by the RREEF Funds is close to changing hands. Located near Route 3, the Pinehurst Business Park features approximately 150,000 sf of flex space, and has reportedl
BROOKLINE—Score one—and a big one at that—for the locals. Up against a bevy of national heavyweights, hometown real estate icon Harold Brown’s Hamilton Co. has completed its purchase of the hotly contested Dexter Park luxury apartments on the Boston border, paying a hefty sum o
WAKEFIELD—In the game of Route 128 Monopoly, the Edgewater Office Park is now firmly in control of FM Global, having shelled out $37.5 million in cash to take down a pair of first-class buildings at the 825,000-sf complex. The fast-moving trade of 301 and 401 Edgewater Pl. was ne
CAMBRIDGE—Manifest destiny is a popular topic at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, but that mantra has seemingly escaped the building’s designers. Whereas the landmark assignment in the 1970s did establish ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge as a first-rate fir
BOSTON—Its mission is precious to hundreds of cancer patients and their families, and the AstraZeneca Hope Lodge Center at 125 South Huntington Avenue now bears another treasured aura after being designated LEED Gold by the United States Green Building Council. Operated by the Am
WALTHAM—They are the sort of office tenant a landlord could get used to, but rarely encounter in today’s austere leasing environment. Taking down more than 5,500 sf at 230 CityPoint in Waltham, Austrian electronics firm OMICRON USA gladly paid a premium to land space in the promi
WESTFIELD—Do-it-Yourselfers and western Massachusetts boosters alike are celebrating a significant milestone here at the Campanelli Business Park, as the developers of the 130-acre complex sell a 71-acre swath to the Home Depot for $5.76 million. The fully permitted site that wil
WILMINGTON—Available financing and confidence in the Interstate 93 real estate market have led the RAM Cos. of Maine to nail down a 100,000-sf flex/industrial asset purchased from the RREEF Funds. RAM’s $8.5 million agreement, initially revealed by The Real Reporter in its Oct. 8
BOSTON—Daniel J. Flynn III and Jeremy A. Freid are veteran real estate auctioneers with something to hawk—auctions. “New England has definitely been a difficult sell,” Freid accedes in discussing a partnership between Daniel J. Flynn & Co. and Boston Realty Advisors pledging to
WORCESTER—If you designate them, they will build. Barely a week after being selected to develop the next phase of the emerging Worcester Gateway Park life sciences cluster, Kavanagh Advisory Group of Danvers is poised to break ground on an 80,000 sf lab/research property there by
WOBURN—In kicking off last Wednesday’s annual NAIOP of Massachusetts commercial real estate bus tour, Cushman & Wakefield broker David Martel gave attendees a quick overview of the downtown Boston office market through three quarters. Delivered at Woburn’s TradeCenter 128 office
BEDFORD—Investors hungry for commercial real estate in suburban Boston’s core now have a morsel to consider here at a site just off Route 128, as the owners of 4 Preston Ct. have retained Newmark Knight Frank to peddle the two-story, multi-tenanted office building. Being offered
DANVERS—Two months after foreclosing on a well-known office property here on Boston’s North Shore, NewStar Financial Inc. has retained Colliers Meredith & Grew’s Capital Markets Group to market the three-building, 272,000-sf complex, sources are reporting. The team is led by EVP