by MaryBeth DiDonna Laboratory Design spoke with John Fowler, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP, Associate Principal with Margulies Perruzzi Architects. Laboratory Design (LD): How did you get into your field? John Fowler (JF): I’ve had a passion for design since I was young, even though I didn’t recognize it until I was finishing high school.…
By Steve Adams | Banker & Tradesman Staff | Feb 1, 2019 Skanska took a chance with a nontraditional design for its speculative 121 Seaport office tower, developing an oval-shaped building that stands out from most of the South Boston waterfront’s boxy architecture. The unorthodox approach was a selling point for PTC, a Needham-based…
COMPETITIVE CLIMATE Shortage of Quality Space Limits Occupier Options By By Adam Subber and Dan Sullivan | Special to Banker & Tradesman | Dec 30, 2018 Take the pulse of the commercial real estate market right now and you’ll see a fundamental imbalance in the supply and demand for office space in the city…
Dec 26, 2018 Digital marketers C-4 Analytics have leased 40,520 square feet at Hobbs Brook Management’s 701 Edgewater Drive in Wakefield. Chip Batchelder of Wyman Street Advisors represented ownership in the 5 1/2-year lease. JLL’s Chris Decembrele represented C-4 Analytics. The lease is one of three recently finalized at Hobbs Brook Management properties in…
By Steve Adams | Banker & Tradesman Staff | Dec 17, 2018 Visitors to the Christian Science Plaza in Boston will notice some subtle changes to its reflecting pool next spring, but the most dramatic updates are taking place beneath the surface. A two-year project designed by landscape architects CRJA-IBI Group will increase sustainability…
The company is developing the five-story, 42,000-square-foot building in Brookline, with a completion date scheduled for next August. by Keith Loria Aura Properties, together with partners Kaplan Construction, has begun construction on JFK Crossing, a new five-story, 42,000-square-foot mixed-use building in Brookline, Mass. “There is always a need for more vertical housing in the densely-populated…
Dec 4, 2018, 5:23am EST The Revolution Hotel, a renovated 164-room hotel that formerly operated as the 40 Berkeley Hostel, opens Wednesday in Boston’s South End. Boston-based real estate firm The Mount Vernon Co. acquired the property in 2014 fo $17.3 million, according to a Suffolk County deed, and launched a renovation. The Mount Vernon…
DPS Group, a privately-owned, global engineering company, and Hodess Cleanroom Construction, a comprehensive cleanroom construction company, today announced that they have completed a proprietary cell therapy manufacturing facility for Mustang Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. Mustang Bio engaged Hodess as prime consultant on the design/build project, and Hodess selected DPS Group for its depth…
by MaryBeth DiDonna, Editor Size: 27,000 sf Project team: DPS Group (engineering, architectural services), Hodess Cleanroom Construction (construction, prime consultant) Description: Mustang Bio’s new CAR T and gene therapy development facility is located within UMass Medicine Science Park in Worcester. It will support the clinical development and commercialization of Mustang’s CAR T and gene…
November 6, 2018 | Cameron Sperance, Bisnow Boston An office space crunch in Boston is getting some relief thanks to one of the city’s largest employers. John Hancock is consolidating its Boston operations to its 1.2M SF Back Bay campus, freeing up its 465K SF headquarters at 601 Congress St. as early as spring 2019.…