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Fields Corner post office announces lease extension days before planned temporary closure
The extended lease comes amidst a series of post office closures in the Boston area, including Allston and Watertown. The U.S. Postal Service announced a lease extension for the Fields Corner post office on Friday — three days before it was scheduled to temporarily close without firm plans to reopen.
beaconhilltimes.com
Making a Home on the Hill
Not long ago, Bridget Weir stood in her Anderson Street apartment and took inventory. “I was just looking around and I’m like, that’s from that store, this is from that store,” she says, then laughs. “How did I get all this stuff?”. The answer is...
thequincysun.com
National Grid to Hold Community Meeting on Marina Bay Power Outages
National Grid will hold a community meeting Thursday, Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Senior Center in Quincy to address concerns about recent repeated power outages in Marina Bay. In response to concerns raised by neighborhood residents, Rep. Bruce Ayers and Sen. John Keenan urged National Grid to...
BC Heights
Rappaport Panel Dissects the Impact of Affordable Rental Policies
Housing policy experts discussed several key strategies to combat the rental affordability crisis Wednesday at a panel hosted by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy. “So much of the public discourse about how to resolve this problem has overwhelmingly focused on increasing the supply of housing, talking about...
Boston
A major project planned for Nubian Square is changing. Here’s how.
Rising costs and a weaker office market are pushing the developer to replace planned office and lab space with a smaller workforce training and arts facility. A planned Nubian Square cultural hub project is being altered, as the developer faces changing market conditions, rising interest rates, a weakened office market, and escalating construction costs.
nbcboston.com
Mass General Brigham announces layoffs
Mass General Brigham, the state's largest healthcare system, says it is laying off employees for the second time in the past two years as they look to strengthen their long-term financial sustainability. A spokesperson for the healthcare system told The Boston Globe the layoffs began last week. They didn't say...
bostonrealestatetimes.com
Boston Office Vacancy Rises to 17.6% as Market Maintains One of Nation’s Largest Construction Pipelines
BOSTON — Boston’s office market moved in the opposite direction from the national trend over the past year, with vacancy increasing and average asking rents edging lower, even as the city maintained the nation’s third-largest pipeline of office construction, according to a new report from CommercialCafe. Boston’s...
hoodline.com
Somerville's Saus to Shut Bow Market Shop in December After 15 Years
Saus, the Belgian-style fry and sauce shop that built a following in Boston before planting a second, all-vegetarian flag in Somerville, will close its remaining Bow Market location in December. The closure ends a run that began in a tiny Haymarket-area storefront in 2011 and, including the original Boston shop, spans 15 years in business.
beaconhilltimes.com
Details unveiled for proposed 31 St. James Ave. redevelopment project
Details of a proposed office-to-residential redevelopment project that would transform an 11-story, block-long building at 31 St. James Ave. in the Back Bay into 476 residential units were discussed during a city-sponsored meeting held virtually on Oct. 14. The Vanbarton Group, a New York-based real estate firm that specializes in...
WBUR
Harvard Book Store to open second location in downtown Boston
Having recently celebrated 18 years of owning Harvard Book Store, Jeff Mayersohn and his wife, Linda Seamonson, are preparing to open a second location in downtown Boston. They plan to open the new store, at 33 Union St., this fall. The Cambridge location will remain the flagship. After growing up...
medtechdive.com
CDRH on hiring spree after significant staff losses, director says
BOSTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s medical device center has lost a significant number of staff following massive cuts at the start of the Trump administration. The regulator is now looking to make up lost ground through a hiring push, Dr. Michelle Tarver, director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said Wednesday at AdvaMed’s The MedTech Conference.
brookline.news
Starter home ballot question would modestly ‘move the needle’ in Brookline, advocates say
A question on the Massachusetts November ballot to spur the development of starter homes by limiting the minimum lot size municipalities can require for a single-family home may not have a major impact on Brookline but could serve to “move the needle” on the town’s housing crunch.
Boston
Home of the Week: This Hingham Cape dating back to 1687 has been renovated for 2026 living
The historic Samuel Hobart House is on the market for $1.5 million. Taxes $11,000 (2026, estimate) Like the South Shore town it sits in, this Cape-style home, known as the Samuel Hobart House, has grown. It was built around 1687, about 50 years after the settlement of Bare Cove was renamed Hingham, town historic society and municipal records show.