Developer presents artist renderings of new ‘Allston Green’ project

Real estate developer LBC Boston, which is planning a $140 million mixed-use project in Boston’s Allston neighborhood, released renderings showing what the new residential towers set to replace six dilapidated three-story buildings and a commercial building will actually look like. The two-acre project, dubbed “Allston Green,” will add 350 housing units and 34,000 square feet…

Office teardown in Waltham: Hobbs Brook plans new spec space

By Catherine Carlock  – Real Estate Editor, Boston Business Journal     Hobbs Brook Management has plans to demolish its longtime Waltham headquarters on Wyman Street and develop a 500,000-square-foot speculative office and lab facility in its place. The facility at 225 Wyman will be the largest contiguous Class A office space built along Route 128…

Women-owned businesses flex their muscles as revenue gainers in Mass.

  It was a very good year for Worcester-based Coghlin Electrical Contractors Inc. The 13-year-old electrical contracting firm owned by Susan Mailman was the biggest year-over-year revenue gainer on the BBJ’s list of the Largest Minority/Women-Owned Businesses in Massachusetts ranking No. 3 this year. Coghlin Electrical’s revenue rose to $79 million in 2017 from $45.4…

Why One Law Firm Opted for Downtown Over Seaport, Back Bay

HINCKLEY ALLEN RENOVATING AT 28 STATE STREET IN BOSTON’S FINANCIAL DISTRICT By Greg Ryan  –  Law and Money Reporter, Boston Business Journal November 16, 2017 The law firm Hinckley Allen will be renovating its office at 28 State St. in Boston’s Financial District and taking on more space in the tower to make room for future growth. The…

On the Right Track: New Home for Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership

FIVE-STORY BUILDING WILL CREATE 40 UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING July 14, 2017 by Catherine Carlock This fall, the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership — a nonprofit and the state’s largest regional provider of rental-housing voucher assistance — will get a new home of its own: a vacant two-acre parcel formerly owned by the MBTA, across from…

Spaulding Cape Cod Completes $6.4M Expansion, Renovation Project

EXPECTING A DOUBLING OF ELDERLY RESIDENTS IN THE COMING YEARS January 17, 2017 by Jessica Bartlett, Reporter Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital has finished a renovation and expansion project intended to prep for what it expects to be a doubling of the number of elderly residents near its Cape location in coming years. The $6.4 million project…

Outside the Box: Jeannie Pierce Thacker Brings Together Unique Skill Sets in Lab Design

December 9, 2016 Title Principal, TRIA Age 40 Education Bachelor’s degree, biology, Clemson University; master’s degree, architecture, Boston Architectural College Residence South Boston As a high school volunteer at a children’s hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, Jeannie Pierce Thacker’s eyes were opened to how architecture and design impact patients and families. After getting her undergrad degree…