Hi Marley is set to roughly quadruple its downtown Boston office footprint, shifting its headquarters to the Atlantic Wharf complex along the waterfront. The fast-growing insurtech is beefing up its in-person capacity as it scales both its customer base and engineering teams, a sizable bet on premium downtown space at a time when top-tier towers are once again attracting major tenants.
According to CoStar, the deal will move Hi Marley into the BXP-owned Atlantic Wharf tower and increase the company’s headquarters footprint by about four times. CoStar characterizes the expansion as part of an “AI-fueled leasing wave” that is pulling technology-focused tenants back into high-quality urban office towers.
BXP’s listing for Atlantic Wharf describes the two-building complex at 280 & 290 Congress Street as roughly 790,000 square feet of mixed-use space with LEED Platinum certification and waterfront amenities. The owner calls out on-site restaurants, an art gallery, water taxi access and flexible conference space, features landlords say help top-tier Class A towers outcompete older office stock.
Hi Marley Is Scaling Up
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Hi Marley builds a conversational platform for property-and-casualty insurers and says it is trusted by more than 130 carriers. The company reports rapid growth in recent years and notes a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 ranking in 2025, a run that helps explain why it now needs a much larger headquarters footprint. Hi Marley’s public materials highlight product, engineering and customer-success expansion as key growth drivers.
Downtown Demand Is Concentrated In Class A Towers
Market data shows a clear flight-to-quality that benefits towers like Atlantic Wharf. Cushman & Wakefield’s Q1 2026 MarketBeat recorded nearly 1.6 million square feet of new leasing activity in Greater Boston and noted that Downtown captured an outsized share of that quarterly volume, with Class A space accounting for most of the deals. The report also found that while average new-lease sizes have shrunk, occupiers are increasingly opting for premium, well‑amenitized offices instead of functionally obsolete buildings.
What This Means For Workers
Hi Marley’s own job postings ask new hires to work from the Boston office two to three days a week, a signal that the additional square footage is designed for hybrid collaboration rather than a strict full-time office requirement. That stance suggests the expanded headquarters will function as a hub for teams, recruiting and engineering capacity as the company grows its platform.
CoStar’s reporting did not include a public move-in date or full square-footage figures for the deal, and those specifics may be confirmed by the landlord or the company in the coming weeks. We will update this story as Hi Marley or BXP releases additional details.
