NEEDHAM—Overcoming a difficult economy and stiff competition for charitable dollars, members and guests of NAIOP Massachusetts raised $99,000 this week at a charity golf tournament held to benefit Heading Home Inc. in its mission to end homelessness. The June 3rd program attracte
BOSTON—Back Bay real estate features a diverse array of uses, and one intriguing property just hitting the sales block is 463 Beacon St., a 20-room residential building that caters to short-term rentals. The Beacon Street Guest House is being marketed at $3.75 million by NAI Hunn
BOSTON—Hollywood’s summer blockbuster, “Land of the Lost,” opens this weekend, but those pining for a real horror action adventure could skip the Will Ferrell vehicle in favor of next Wednesday’s NAIOP/SIOR commercial real estate seminar at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel.
BILLERICA—There is another promising sign of life for the region’s life sciences sector. Providing momentum to the Route 3 corridor north of Burlington, SemiLab AMS has leased 23,000 sf at 47 Manning Road, inking a five-year pact encompassing the building’s entire first floor. Pr
Much like host city Las Vegas, ICSC’s spring convention was a shadow of its normally spirited self, New England retail professionals returning from last week’s annual program are reporting.
EASTON—A flex/industrial building here is celebrating its 25th birthday with the signing of a lease for 15,000 sf. Retail marketing and business communication services firm Vestcom New Century has committed to seven years at 5 Norfolk Ave., among a quartet of buildings owned in t
MIDDLEBOROUGH—It has been a busy spring for the Campanelli Business Park, and yet another deal has been finalized there, as Mueller Technologies commits to 12,000 sf at 48 Leona Dr. The single-story, 26,000-sf structure now has just 6,000 sf remaining, according to Campanelli Cos
MARLBOROUGH—They have been asked, but Hewlett-Packard still won’t tell what its intentions are regarding a sprawling corporate campus here in the heart of suburban Boston’s MetroWest. Company officials remained tightlipped in the wake of last week’s Real Reporter article indicati
BOSTON—The giddy, gilded shopping spree that drew consumers worldwide to Newbury Street has withered in recent months, but the owner of a prime retail/office building is hoping investor interest for the boulevard’s commercial real estate is more resilient against the global reces
LANCASTER—Given the fractured national economy, no CRE deal is a shoe-in, but footwear giant Rockport has managed to trade its northeast distribution center at 580 Fort Pond Rd. to a Framingham-based real estate investor. An affiliate of Parsons Commercial Group paid $7.35 millio
Friends and colleagues insist attorney Vincent J. Pisegna possesses a fine smile and warm demeanor, but legal adversaries might be less attuned to those features, and for good reason.
CANTON—The opening third of 2009 has been frustratingly foggy for commercial real estate, as companies timidly grope through one of the worst recessions in decades, fearful of a fatal economic misstep. Amidst the gloomy backdrop, however, some deals are finally making their way i
BOSTON—Fenway Health’s new $60 million medical center at 1340 Boylston St. has a message for its constituents—“Welcome.” The greeting, however, extends beyond just an official opening this month of the Ansin Building, a 10-story, 100,000-sf research and clinical complex that rep