CBA Announces 2017 Achievement Awards Finalists

Boston–The Commercial Brokers Association (CBA) today announced the finalists for its annual CBA Achievement Awards, which will recognize the Greater Boston area’s most significant real estate deals of 2017 and honor local industry professionals who have distinguished themselves among their peers.

The Awards Dinner will be held on March 22, 2018 at the InterContinental Boston, where awards will be given in the following categories: Deal of the Year Awards will be presented for Office (Boston, Greater Cambridge and Suburban), Retail, Industrial, Life Science and Most Creative deals, as well as the Investment Sale of the Year; a new President’s Council Award will be unveiled this year, recognizing an exceptional transaction; and Special Recognition Awards will be presented to the Broker, Landlord, Rising Star, and Collaborating Professional of the Year.

Finalists in each category are as follows:

Deal of the Year:

Office – Boston
Alexion (lease)
Bose Corporation (lease)
DraftKings (lease)
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC (lease)
PTC Corporation (lease)
Reebok (lease)

Office – Greater Cambridge
InterSystems Corporation (lease)

Office – Suburban
Astellas Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Westborough, MA (lease)
Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (lease)
Insulet Corporation, Acton, MA (sale)
iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (lease)
Raytheon Company, Woburn, MA (lease)
Straumann Manufacturing, Andover, MA (lease)

Retail
Lynx Fitness Club - Topgolf® Swing Suite, Boston, MA (lease)
Trillium Brewing Company, Boston, MA (lease)

Industrial
66 Saratoga Boulevard, Devens, MA (lease)

Life Science
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA (lease)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA (sale)
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA (lease)
Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Cambridge, MA (lease)

Most Creative Deal Under 100,000 SF
960 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA (sale)
Brattle Court at Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA (sale)
Liberty Travel, Boston, MA (lease)
Mass Innovation Labs, Boston Landing, Boston, MA (lease)
Mass Innovation Labs, iSQ Seaport, Boston, MA (lease)
Optimus Ride, Boston, MA (lease)

Investment Sale
10 St. James Avenue & 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA
100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA
Hayden Research Campus, Lexington, MA

Special Recognition Awards:

Broker of the Year Leadership Award
Kristin Blount, Colliers International
Matt Daniels, JLL
Michael Joyce, Cushman & Wakefield
Robert Richards, Cushman & Wakefield
Joe Sciolla, Cresa
Mark Winters, Newmark Knight Frank

Landlord of the Year
A.W. Perry
Atlantic Management
Millennium Partners
National Development
NB Development
Oxford Properties
Rockpoint Group
TH Real Estate

Rising Star of the Year
Jonathan Bryant, Colliers International
Joe Fabiano, JLL
Robert Glor, McCall & Almy
Tyler Hilson, Perry Brokerage Associates
Bobby Jangro, JLL
Tyler McGrail, Newmark Knight Frank
Kevin McNamara, Cushman & Wakefield
Matt Perry, Avison Young
Margaret Power, Cushman & Wakefield
Amanda Stevens Snell, The Stevens Group

Collaborating Professional of the Year
Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C.
Fusion Design Consultants, Inc.
Goodwin Procter
VHB

For more information or to register for the CBA Achievement Awards dinner, visit: http://www.CBAAwards.com.