By Dees Stribling | Bisnow |June 2, 2020 The long-term outlook for affordable housing depends on its location in walkable areas with access to transit that will take residents to their jobs: urban density, in other words, or at least a pocket of density around a transit node. The pandemic has called that model into question, […]
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19May
Boston Construction Struggles To Adapt To Social Distancing – And How To Pay For It
Capital MarketsBy Drees Stribling | Bisnow | May 19, 2020 As the construction industry in Boston is poised to reopen completely, the challenge of operating efficiently while social distancing are only going to intensify, experts said this week. According to the speakers at Bisnow’s recent webinar, How to Get Boston Construction Back Underway, it has already been a struggle. […]
Read MoreBy Dees Stribling | Bisnow | May 13, 2020 “What keeps you up at night?” a Bisnow webinar audience member asked Ron Druker, Boston commercial real estate luminary and president of The Druker Co. “Right now, my dog keeps me up at night,” Druker said. “The answer is — I can only control what I […]
Read MoreBy Paul Singer | WGBH | May 4, 2020 Whenever non-essential offices reopen, here’s the first thing to remember: About two-thirds of us probably won’t be going back in. At least not for a while. Gov. Charlie Baker has assembled a team to begin talking about reopening the economy, and of course everybody is anxious […]
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CRE Deals Are Still Closing. Here’s How Three of Them Got Done During the Pandemic
Downtown OfficeBy Catherine Carlock – Real Estate Editor, Boston Business Journal | May 1, 2020 On a mid-April webinar to the Commercial Brokers Association in Boston, office broker David Martel gave a sobering statistic: between 90-95% of active real-estate deals are either on hold or dead amid the coronavirus pandemic. “To say it’s unprecedented is an […]
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