Tag: urban
Thomas Named ULI Officer
Washington – Owen D. Thomas, chief executive officer of Boston Properties, a national publicly traded developer and owner of Class A office properties, has been elected as the new global chairman of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). ULI is a global, multidisciplinary real estate organization with more than 44,000 members dedicated to leadership in responsible […]
NEI Wraps Up Walker Park Apts.
Boston – NEI General Contracting, a general contractor and construction management firm, announced the completion of Walker Park Apartments in the Egleston Square neighborhood for Urban Edge, a national leader in the community development field. This is NEI’s sixth project for Urban Edge and creates 49 units of affordable housing.The two-building apartment complex is named […]
Erland Completes City Square Addition
Worcester, MA – Erland Construction recently completed downtown Worcester’s new residential addition, 145 Front Street at City Square. The 398,000sf transit-oriented project, developed and managed by Roseland Property Company, includes two buildings that collectively feature 368 apartments, connected by a parking garage with 409 spaces. Designed by ICON Architecture, this mixed-use property houses four retail […]
Dellbrook Named CM for Lynn Development
Lynn, MA – The Procopio Companies recently selected Dellbrook | JKS as the construction management firm for its downtown ground-up mixed-use project at 34 Munroe Street in Lynn. Quincy-based Dellbrook | JKS was selected by the development team as the project’s construction manager. The development includes approximately 208,000sf of market-rate residential rentals,15,000sf of street-level commercial space and 20,000sf of resident amenity […]
SMMA Wins Bronze Engineering Excellence Award
Winchester, MA – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named SMMA as a winner of a 2018 Bronze Engineering Excellence Awards for work on the Winchester High School renovation project in Winchester. SMMA, with offices in Cambridge, was retained by the Education Facilities Planning and Building Committee of Winchester High School to […]
Getting Cities Right: ULI’s 2018 Spring Meeting
Washington, DC – Innovative city building and successful leadership strategies will be discussed at the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 2018 Spring Meeting, set for May 1-3, 2018 at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit. Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Rock Ventures, LLC and Quicken Loans; Chris Ilitch, president and chief executive officer of Ilitch Holdings, Inc.; and Tony Hsieh, chief executive officer […]
Study Shows Shift in Metro Boston
Washington, DC and Boston – Metropolitan Boston is poised to be one of the most walkable metro areas in the country, according to a new report released by the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at the George Washington University School of Business, and the Northeastern University Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, with the […]
