Abington Woods fetches $37M
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Greystar, a South Carolina-based real estate firm that manages 200,000 units in more than 100 cities, has purchased Abington Woods in...
View ArticleReport: Boston's commercial real estate market leading national recovery
Craig Douglas Managing editor/online vertical products and research- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Bostonâs commercial real estate prices are fast approaching peak levels last seen in...
View ArticleMana Escondido Cafe to open in the South End
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter A new Puerto Rican restaurant is set to open Dec. 1 in Boston's South End neighborhood. Mana Escondido Cafe owner Angel Carraquillo told...
View ArticleMassport working on plans to make its Silver Line subsidy permanent
Jon Chesto Managing Editor, Print- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter New Massport CEO Thomas Glynn has been so impressed with a pilot program to provide free rides from Logan Airport on the...
View ArticleLocal colleges ring up investment losses as international markets swoon
Craig Douglas Managing editor/online vertical products and research- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter It wasnât another 2009, but local colleges and universities received an ugly education...
View ArticleLofts debut at historic Malden Mills in Lawrence
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email A Boston-based developer has opened a 75-unit loft style, apartment complex at the former Malden Mills manufacturing site in Lawrence,...
View ArticleHarvard Stadium from 1903 to 2012 (slide show)
Joe Halpern Research Director- Boston Business Journal Email On Sunday, Harvard University beat Yale University for the sixth time in a row (Harvard Crimson game day story). The 129th Harvard-Yale...
View ArticleLender braces for 'imminent default' on Kingston mall's $72M mortgage
Craig Douglas Managing editor/online vertical products and research- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter The southeast corridor of the state continues to be a punishing place for the traditional...
View ArticleFormer CFO guilty of fraud & identity theft in stock scheme
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter A federal jury on Monday convicted the former chief financial officer (CFO) of a North Shore information brokerage of conspiracy, money...
View ArticleThe Company Theatre in Norwell sells out another musical before first night
Jon Chesto Managing Editor, Print- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Some theater operators may need to wait until tomorrow for the sun to shine for them. But tomorrow is no longer a day away...
View ArticleNew Massport CEO hopeful about landing JetBlue for Worcester airport
Jon Chesto Managing Editor, Print- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Massportâs new CEO is optimistic that JetBlue Airways Corp. (Nasdaq: JBLU) will eventually land at the near-deserted...
View ArticleAT&T is testing new MBTA cell phone service in tunnels
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter If you noticed better cell phone service this week while riding the MBTA Green Line underground, you might have been part of an...
View ArticleEPA approves $100M New Bedford port terminal
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter The $100 million South Terminal project in New Bedford is billed as the city's most promising economic development in half a century. On...
View ArticleLean pickings: Some Mass. food pantries hand out chickens instead of turkeys
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter The price of a turkey is up, and some Massachusetts food pantries have responded by switching birds this Thanksgiving. Demand is up, and...
View ArticleWhooping cough hits Harvard
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Harvard University officials are warning students of a small outbreak of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, among the...
View ArticleGeneral Catalyst co-founder John Simon to join Sigma Prime
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter In a news release Tuesday morning, Boston venture capital firm Sigma Prime Ventures announced John Simon will join as a managing...
View ArticleHadapt preps for new product launch, seeking to bring Hadoop into biz use
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Apache Hadoop, the popular open-source database platform, has generated a ton of interest in recent years but has largely remained a "cool toy for...
View ArticleAfter CEO departs, Cancer test firm Metamark Genetics raises funding
Don Seiffert Associate Editor MHT- Boston Business Journal Email Two weeks after announcing the resignation of its CEO, Metamark Genetics Inc. in Cambridge has filed for the receipt of $9 million out...
View ArticleProvident Healthcare Partners moves to new HQ in Financial District
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Provident Healthcare Partners, an investment bank that focuses on medium-sized health care firms, has leased new space in Bostonâs...
View ArticleBoston's population stays flat, but still ranks as 10th-largest in U.S. (BBJ...
G. Scott Thomas Email Greater Boston added approximately 75,000 residents over the past two years, good enough to retain the region's rank as the 10th-largest metropolitan area in the country. But...
View ArticleAvalonBay reveals plan for North Station apartment tower (slide show)
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Avalon Bay Communities (NYSE: AVB) has filed plans for a 38-story apartment tower above a below-grade parking garage on Nashua Street,...
View ArticleFree coffee and tolls on the Mass. Pike, Wednesday before Thanksgiving
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter If soul-crushing traffic doesn't get you down, try hitting the road this Wednesday at 3 in the afternoon. You'll inch through the...
View ArticleOld Northern Avenue Bridge to get flower makeover
The Hub will be getting its own Bridge of Flowers thanks to a $50,000 grant to the Boston Harbor Association from the Garden Club of America. The cash will be used to install a horticultural display...
View ArticleMHT Startup Watch: 5 you should follow (Nov. 19-23)
This week's Mass High Tech Startup Watch includes a software company focused on the needs of English Language Learners. AxioMx LLC: Privately-held AxioMx is a biotechnology startup developing a...
View ArticleStartup updates: Lookout Gaming raises $1.3M; BetterLesson get $3.5M Gates...
Lookout Gaming LLC, a stealth mode startup based in Boston, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding it plans to use for building its team and the launch of its first product. Andrew Paradise,...
View ArticlePunchey aims to capture lost data in retail payments
Millions of times a day, all around the world, consumers swipe their credit and debit cards through those small, ubiquitous electronic readers. And with each swipe, potentially valuable data that...
View Article40+ potential bidders eye Upper Crust bankruptcy auction
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter More than 40 potential bidders have shown interest in the Upper Crust, a Boston-based gourmet pizza chain that filed for bankruptcy...
View ArticleZipcar stock surges on Goldman rating
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Shares in Zipcar Inc. (Nasdaq: ZIP) are up nearly 7 percent today, trading at $7.52 a share this afternoon. That's a little less than...
View ArticleHow William Sulinski killed it on Kickstarter, then had to go back for a new...
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter A little over a week ago, Boston-bred entrepreneur William Sulinski was on top of the world. On its first day on Kickstarter, his men's...
View ArticleJoe Caruso looking for 100 Boston CEOs to meet with entrepreneurs
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Prolific Boston angel investor and mentor Joe Caruso is about to launch the second year of BREW CEO lunches, in which C-level executives and...
View ArticleBoston Startup Weekend winner seeks to bring mobile health analytics to...
Don Seiffert Associate Editor MHT- Boston Business Journal Email Ashalytics, a Boston startup that aims to address health problems in developing nations through mobile analytics, was named the winner...
View ArticleDatabase tech startup Tokutek raises $1.5M
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Tokutek, a Lexington-based startup which has developed technology that aims to improve the performance of databases, has raised $1.54 million in...
View ArticleOprah names Gemvara earrings to 'Favorite Things' list
Boston-based online personal fine jeweler Gemvara on Sunday won a product endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, with the firm's naked cushion triple earrings named to her well-known "Favorite Things" list....
View ArticleJohn Simon: Why I left General Catalyst and joined Sigma Prime
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email General Catalyst Partners co-founder John Simon says his dozen years with the firm were "100 percent a great experience," but that his departure...
View ArticleMatt Lauzon departs CEO role at Gemvara
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Matt Lauzon, founder and CEO of online customizable jewelry firm Gemvara, has stepped down as CEO of Gemvara and will no longer have a day-to-day...
View ArticleNew tenants coming to Financial District and Seaport
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email A pair of two leases totaling 7,800 square feet in Bostonâs Financial District and Seaport have been signed. Communications Media...
View ArticleCraisins for Turkey Day? Ocean Spray expands manufacturing capacity to keep...
Jon Chesto Managing Editor, Print- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Ocean Spray's cranberry sauce will land on plenty of dinner tables this Thanksgiving. But many of the folks at the...
View ArticleHarold Brown reaches milestone
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Harold Brown, one of Bostonâs best known landlords, built his business from a six-unit apartment building in 1954 into a $1.4 billion...
View ArticleMarines veteran hits $10M Mass. lottery jackpot on Veterans Day
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Meet Edward Santiago, a U.S. Marine Corps. veteran from Middleborough, Mass. who won $10 million on a lottery ticket he bought on...
View ArticleBrightcove CEO: Zuckerberg move was 'shameful'
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove (Nasdaq: BCOV), on Thursday slammed both Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs for their roles in the...
View ArticleJill's List aims to take the hassle out of health FSAs
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Boston startup Jill's List, which offers services including an online directory for practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine, on...
View ArticleState Street CFO Edward J. Resch to retire in 2013
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT) announced its chief financial officer (CFO), Edward J. Resch, will retire from the company some time in...
View ArticleHere are the 5 best companies at social media in Massachusetts
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Each year, the Boston Business Journal Research Department lists the 25 most social-media-savvy companies in Massachusetts, ranked by...
View Article'Top Chef': Rising star from Boston battling this season (slideshow)
Lisa van der Pool Broadcast/Social Media Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Although Boston narrowly missed hosting the 10th season of "Top Chef"â at least we have a local chef...
View ArticleMass High Tech and BBJ honor 30 innovation all stars (slide show)
Patricia Resende Managing Editor MHT- Boston Business Journal Email A Nobel Peace Prize winner, an entrepreneur who joins the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and achieved a perfect math SAT...
View Article$78M rehab of Springfield Union Station underway
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email The Patrick administration kicked off the $78 million reconstruction of Springfieldâs Union Station and reestablish the historic...
View ArticleIn 10 Tweets: RunKeeper's Jason Jacobs
Lisa van der Pool Broadcast/Social Media Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter Jason Jacobs has big ambitions for his company RunKeeper, including ultimately transforming the Boston firm...
View ArticleHostess' 11th-hour mediation fails; Liquidation moves ahead
Galen Moore Web Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter A last-ditch mediation effort between Hostess Brands Inc. and one of its largest employee unions has failed, the company announced...
View ArticleYesware hits 100K users; won't sell out to Salesforce or HubSpot
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Yesware, a Boston startup offering a productivity-boosting email plug-in for salespeople, crossed the 100,000-user mark last weekend, up from...
View ArticleUnions will take less pay to jumpstart stalled East Boston project
Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email In a major concession, the Hubâs trade unions are willing to forfeit $5 million in wages and benefits to jumpstart a stalled $25...
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