The Omni Parker House completed a $65M restoration of rooms, lobby and event space in 2025, reopening refreshed ahead of Boston's 2026 World Cup and America 250 traffic.

Census and industry data show Boston’s 2025 growth was modest and concentrated in close‑in suburbs rather than the city core. The shift could reshape housing and downtown recovery plans.

A Mount Pleasant master plan would replace Leicester Country Club with nearly 300 homes and retail in a later phase, according to town filings and project maps.

A planned life‑sciences conversion beside North Station has been scrapped; the developer says the Friend Street building will be converted to housing amid a soft lab market and neighborhood pushback.

Mortgage financing is in place for the third residential phase at River's Edge in Medford, clearing the way for a seven‑story, 224‑unit apartment building. This financing moves the riverfront master plan closer to construction.

Renderings show trees, cobblestones and native plantings for Town Square; funding, ADA limits and a monument relocation will shape whether it happens.

City Manager Fidel Maltez has proposed raising inclusionary‑zoning thresholds and lowering fees to attract development and bolster school funding amid enrollment losses.

A Chelsea federal office building that houses the FBI sold for $135 million, a rare high‑value trade as Boston’s office market struggles.

Four Flagship‑created biotech startups have signed onto one Watertown campus at 99 Coolidge Ave., shifting research from Boston and Cambridge into a new suburban lab hub. The move centralizes multiple Flagship teams and signals more life‑science growth for Watertown.

Boston is putting $50 million into phase two of the Bunker Hill redevelopment to unlock a nine‑story, mixed‑income building in Charlestown, officials say.

Draper won approval to build a $100M microelectronics facility at UMass Lowell’s LINC, promising roughly 150 high-skilled jobs and state support for construction.

Bentley has launched an $85M renovation of the Adamian Academic Center in Waltham, converting old lecture halls into AI labs, makerspace and a student-run café. The building is scheduled to reopen for fall 2027.

A $286,000 federal award will fund stabilization of corroded beams under Boston’s Old State House plaza, with work possibly starting this fall. The repair aims to protect the plaza and the 1713 landmark.