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Where the Capital Goes: HYM’s Tom O’Brien on Cost, Capital and the One Thing Boston’s Builders Need to Agree On
On Monday, Nov. 16, High-Profile hosts the Built Leadership Forum, a day built around one question: what gets built next, and who is going to lead it? The program starts with what leaders are seeing across capital and development, turns to how organizations are responding, and closes with where innovation has to move from innovation to impact. Every session is an intentionally crafted conversation delivering valuable insight from the region’s built leadership.
poetsandquantsforexecs.com
Exec Ed Roundup: Babson Gets NECHE Recognition, BITSoM Backs 35 AI Startups
Babson College has earned recognition from the New England Commission of Higher Education for the quality of its non-credit professional and executive education programs. The recognition comes a year after the Massachusetts college expanded its offerings for professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and other adult learners. NECHE established its non-credit recognition process...
hoodline.com
Jamaica Plain's Blanchard's Liquors Set to Become a Kappy's After Decades Under One Family
A liquor store that has anchored 741 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain for generations could soon be wearing a new name. A Boston licensing notice shows that Blanchard's Liquors has petitioned to transfer its all-alcohol retail package-store license to JP Kappy's, Inc., doing business as Kappy's, setting up a potential rebrand at the longtime neighborhood address.
hoodline.com
Chelsea Eyes 162 Apartments Next to Market Basket in Major Housing Push
Market Basket and Chelsea officials have spent roughly a year quietly shaping a concept that could transform the grocery chain's 30-acre property into a mixed residential and retail district, complete with 162 new apartments steps from the store's front doors. The plan remains conceptual, with no developer signed on and no formal proposal filed, but it marks one of the most ambitious housing ideas the city has floated for the area west of Route 1.
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MassChallenge to Establish New Global Headquarters in Fenway
Global accelerator MassChallenge plans to relocate its world headquarters to 401 Park Dr. in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. The move to the Alexandria Real Estate Equities-owned campus represents a relocation from the Seaport District, where it has been based since its founding in 2009. “When I think about MassChallenge’s history...
iamagazine.com
Boston Globe
‘Never truly lived in’: Michael Dell’s downtown Boston penthouse set for auction — at a discount
The tech mogul’s "extraordinary residence" is going for millions less than he paid for it. One of Boston’s best views could be yours — at a marked-down, bargain price of $6.5 million. Billionaire tech mogul Michael Dell is auctioning off his Millennium Tower penthouse in downtown Boston.
Patriot Ledger
36 condos could replace fire-damaged restaurant in Brant Rock
A local development team is working on plans to build up to 36 condominiums with commercial space on the first floor at the site of the Brant Rock restaurant 291 Ocean Street , the former Haddad's Ocean Cafe , which has been closed since August 2025 due to a fire. Gil Schipani said he and his co-developers, Ryan Frasca and Kristopher Proule, are under agreement to buy the site of 291 Ocean Street from the owners, Table Nine Hospitality Group . He said Frasca is a lifelong Marshfield resident and he and Proule have longstanding ties to the South Shore. “Our goals are in line with everyone else’s,” Schipani said of the developing plans. “It’s going to be a beautiful project that fits the neighborhood and has that coastal feel.” The group says it is working with neighbors and town officials to develop a plan that would not require any variances under the Brant Rock overlay zoning district. The project would still go to the zoning board for review. "We felt it was a prime spot to put our mark on the neighborhood," he said. "It has a lot of charming character, and that's why we all have spent so
FoodWorldNews
Starbucks Closes Summer Street and Faneuil Hall Cafes as Downtown Boston Coffee Drinkers Crowd Into the State Street Store
Starbucks has closed two more cafes in downtown Boston, at 125 Summer St. and at 8 N. Market St. by Faneuil Hall, the Boston Globe reported on Oct. 19. The closures happened in recent weeks, though the company has not said exactly when each store shut its doors. The result...
Boston
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.
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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...