North River Leerink withdrew from Somerville's 90 Washington RFP, leaving Wood Partners as the lone finalist and narrowing the city's leverage on parking, open space and affordable homes.

Related Beal will overhaul Salem’s 250‑unit Loring Towers in a $38M renovation that preserves affordability through 2056 and adds new playgrounds and modern systems.

Franciscan Children’s will install 42 geothermal wells beneath its Brighton campus as part of a roughly $500M modernization, a move officials say will slash fossil-fuel use. The work powers a new clinical building tied to expanded behavioral-health capacity.

Workbar will open a 10,000‑sq‑ft coworking hub inside Somerville's USQ redevelopment, returning to Union Square as the neighborhood fills in with labs and offices.

Boston asking prices ticked down in June to a median of about $825K while the national median existing‑home sale price reached a record $440,600. Local supply gains are easing seller leverage.

The Fraiman family has listed the Somerville Theatre block in Davis Square and the Capitol Theatre block in East Arlington; brokers say long‑term leases are in place.

South Boston’s Mary Ellen McCormack will be rebuilt as a climate‑resilient, mixed‑income neighborhood with all‑electric homes, raised grades, rain gardens and new public spaces.

A Suffolk Superior Court ruling found South Boston developers breached contracts over an East 2nd Street lot, producing roughly $1.58M in damages and a judge's Seuss‑tinged rebuke.

Cargo Ventures filed to build a roughly 150,000‑sq‑ft East Boston commissary at 160 McClellan to centralize Logan’s concession deliveries and launch an electric shuttle fleet. The BPDA filing is under review.

Northmarq arranged roughly $22.9M in Fannie Mae DUS financing for Elora Flats & Townhomes, preserving 104 income‑restricted apartments after Arrowpoint’s purchase.

Pontegadea paid $234M for The Kensington, a 27‑story, 381‑unit tower in Boston’s Theater District — a high‑profile move by Amancio Ortega’s family office.

The Massachusetts House added a YIGBY framework to a $561M bond bill, allowing multifamily housing on qualifying faith‑owned land and sending the measure to the Senate.

The Healey‑Driscoll administration awarded $18.6M in HDIP tax credits to fund 662 new homes across six Gateway Cities, starting with a Fall River redevelopment.