The CRE industry kept smiling through 2017! Is anyone talking about innings anymore? We just keep doing deals. So, here are my predictions for the coming year: 1. Amazon will pass on Boston for a campus, but leave us with a great consolation prize. 2. No Turnpike air rights project will start construction (ditto for
A study commissioned by the non-partisan economic development organization, MassEcon, and conducted by the UMass Donahue Institute‘s Economic and Public Policy Research group, was recently released. The good news is that the vast majority of companies that chose Massachusetts as a place to expand their business would do it again. This consensus was largely based on Massachusetts’ innovative
Isn’t there a civic responsibility to plan for massive dislocation? What should we do if we knew that, in the near future, a large sector of our country’s workers, currently employed with good-paying jobs, would be put out of work by new technologies? Would we ban the new technology to save those jobs? Or, do
The business community is generally a bit skeptical when it comes to grand plans to cure critical deficiencies in the marketplace. One of the most pressing problems for Boston, and many other major cities around the country, is the lack of affordable housing and the inflationary pressures on existing housing stock. In 2014, Mayor Marty
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