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The Federal Tax Credit That’s Sending Boston Developers Back to the Drawing Board

Something unexpected happened in the middle of 2025. While the Trump administration was cutting $27 billion from federal rental assistance programs and proposing the elimination of the Department of Housing and Urban Development as most people know it, Congress quietly did something that developers of affordable housing had been waiting years for: it made the […]

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A $75 Million Bet on South Boston Just Went to Foreclosure Auction

Business News, Real Estate Market

There is a six-acre stretch of land in South Boston, sitting between two Red Line stations, with approved permits for a 1.1-million-square-foot life sciences campus across the street. By almost any measure, it should be one of the most valuable undeveloped parcels in the city. On March 17, it went to foreclosure auction. The property

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VentureWell Is Closing: It Took 30 Years to Build and a Stop-Work Order to End

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Thirty years is a long time to build something. VentureWell — the Massachusetts-based nonprofit that has funded, trained, and connected tens of thousands of science and technology entrepreneurs since 1995 — announced this week it is shutting down. The organization that helped launch student-founded companies across nearly 400 universities, that put $7 billion in investor

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JPMorgan Is Moving Into Boston’s Tallest New Skyscraper

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For months, it was one of the worst-kept secrets in Boston’s commercial real estate market. JPMorgan Chase had been quietly scouting a location to consolidate its four scattered downtown offices into a single, unified headquarters. The building everyone expected them to choose was South Station Tower — the 51-story glass skyscraper that opened last September

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This Boston Startup Just Won One of the Most Competitive Pitch Competitions in the World

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Every March, Austin, Texas becomes the temporary capital of the global startup world. South by Southwest draws thousands of founders, investors, and technology executives from more than 100 countries, and the SXSW Pitch competition — now in its 18th year — has become one of the most watched startup showcases on the planet. Since 2009,

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A Billion-Dollar AI Startup Is Expanding in Boston: 100 Jobs Are Coming With It

Business News, Startups

When a company that reached unicorn status just thirteen months ago announces it is expanding its U.S. headquarters and adding 100 jobs in a single move, it is worth paying attention. That is exactly what Tines did this week — and the story behind the announcement is more interesting than the headline number.

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A New Study Says Rent Control Would Shrink Boston Property Values

Business News, Real Estate Market

Massachusetts is heading toward one of the most consequential housing policy battles in its recent history — and a new study dropped this week to make sure everyone knows exactly what is at stake. The Greater Boston Real Estate Board, one of the most powerful real estate lobbying groups in the state, commissioned a report

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Massachusetts Healthcare Costs Are Growing at Their Fastest Rate in a Decade

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The number that matters most right now is 11.5%. That is the average premium increase hitting Massachusetts residents who buy insurance through the state’s own marketplace in 2026 — and it is just the headline figure. Point32Health, one of the state’s largest insurers, is raising premiums for employers with more than 50 workers by between

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Massachusetts Business Confidence Just Turned Positive — But the Timing Couldn’t Be More Complicated

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Good news arrived in Massachusetts this week, and it came with an asterisk the size of a Middle East conflict. The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Business Confidence Index climbed to 52 in February — the first reading above the neutral threshold of 50 in a full year. For a state that has spent the better

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Gillette Announces Nearly $1 Billion Boston Headquarters in Fort Point

Business News, Real Estate Market

For a company that has called South Boston home for more than 125 years, Gillette is not going quietly into its next chapter. It is going with a nearly billion-dollar construction crane and a nine-story building on the Fort Point Channel waterfront. Procter & Gamble’s Gillette division announced Tuesday that it plans to purchase the

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