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December 1, 2020

Greater Boston's Lab Building Boom Isn't Addressing Market's Short-Term Needs

The surging life sciences market in Boston, Cambridge and beyond has fueled multiple nine-figure deals during the coronavirus pandemic as readily available lab assets dwindle and emerging neighborhoods are entering the race for space.

But in an industry that often needs to occupy lab space within 12 months to start developing products or conducting research, finding it will be increasingly challenging without any more development-ready sites, conversions that take years and discount markets rising in price.

Greater Boston's Lab Building Boom Isn't Addressing Market's Short-Term Needs

"We’ve got an extremely tight market across the board, and it’s making it really challenging for the mid-stage tenants that are out there," JLL Managing Director Don Domoretsky said.The Boston market has fewer than a dozen existing products that a life sciences tenant can step into, Domoretsky said. All of the lab buildings…

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With 'Really Remarkable' Speed, Mass Timber Construction Has Caught On In Boston

With 'Really Remarkable' Speed, Mass Timber Construction Has Caught On In Boston  

Developers in Boston are vying for their projects to be the city’s premier showcase of mass timber construction, an increasingly popular building style that eschews steel for highly compacted wood.

In South Boston, the nonprofit Council on International Educational Exchange is planning to move into a new five-story headquarters at the city’s first cross-laminated timber facility when it opens in February. In Roxbury, developer Placetailor's planned 14-unit apartment building in Boston is being touted as Boston's first ground-up, full CLT demonstration, with construction pledged this year and an expected winter 2021 debut.

In Roxbury’s Nubian Square, developer New Urban Collaborative is proposing a 14-story wood exterior tower of offices, living spaces and cultural sites that would be among the tallest lumber structures east of the Mississippi, according to plans it has submitted for the city-owned parcel.

These developers aim to reap the benefits of a quick, cost-efficient construction alternative to steel and concrete while falling in line with Boston’s goal of being carbon-neutral by 2050. The various projects and proposals represent Boston’s first foray into the new construction already embraced in CLT offices in Chicago, where…

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FTC Moves To Block CoStar Acquisition Of RentPath

FTC Moves To Block CoStar Acquisition Of RentPath  

The Federal Trade Commission has authorized a lawsuit in federal court to prevent real estate data giant CoStar Group from acquiring RentPath Holdings.  The complaint alleges that the deal would concentrate online listings for large apartment complexes even more than…

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Real Estate Shows How Amazon Won 2020

If you want to see what a transformative year 2020 was for Amazon’s e-commerce business, don’t just look at its share price — look at its real estate decisions. 

Black Friday shopping mall foot traffic was down 52%, according to Sensormatic Solutions, but online sales were up 22%, data from Adobe Analytics showed. COVID-19 has turbocharged the move toward online retail, and so Amazon’s real estate take-up has also accelerated dramatically. 

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'Tis Not The Season: CRE Laments Loss Of Holiday Party Circuit

 

NEW YORK CITY — For the last 25 years, the holiday bash thrown by the real estate group at law firm Fried Frank Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has been a mainstay of New York City real estate's social scene, known for attracting the who’s who of industry identities.

But this year there will be no gathering at the Cipriani on 42nd Street for the extravagant celebration — just as there will be no packed-out International Council of Shopping Centers conference after-parties, boozy developer holiday celebrations or broker events.

The winter real estate party calendar, which is usually awash with events to toast the year’s wins and losses, form and solidify relationships and push deals forward, is officially canceled.

“Our whole business is relationships and information,” Compass retail broker Robin Abrams said. “It is in keeping with everything being more challenging. … It’s harder to stay in touch because you are not going to these events, not seeing 10 people at once.”

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