from Don Domoretsky Operations Manager Jones Lang LaSalle You may have missed Governor Patrick’s recent announcement detailing Novartis’ 2011 bio-pharma expansion, but it’s hard to ignore the industry boom in Cambridge. With over 100,000 people located in 6.5 square miles, Cambridge provides a balance of cultural- diversity, technological innovation, and unprecedented institutional knowledge. Cambridge expansion [...]
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Positive change
from Bob Kelly Superintendent Jones Lang LaSalle The real estate industry is barely recognizable from the golden days of construction. I’m old enough to remember when the builder used to tell the client when they could have their building, and not the other way around. Today’s prevailing trend is to get the work done faster [...]
Inquiring minds want to know!
by Jennifer Cronan Construction Manager and LEED Coordinator Jones Lang LaSalle from Greenbuild Chicago 2010 As a more technical requirement of ‘being green’ has recently been unveiled, many of the LEED APs out there have lots of questions about what they need to do to maintain their credentials…which was very obvious by the huge turnout [...]
Budgeting for the recovery
From Chris Wessen Property Manager Jones Lang LaSalle Recent job reports show that Massachusetts is on the road to recovery a little faster than the rest of the nation. Now property managers can stop focusing on controlling cost. Wrong! We have all heard during the last 36 months that we need to do more with [...]
Gratitude expressed
from David Slye Executive Managing Director Jones Lang LaSalle As we enter the holiday season, the tenor of the room at our recent signature event at Four Seasons Boston was one of gratitude, Guests were appreciative and generally upbeat, breathing a sigh of relief that we appear to be at the bottom of the market. [...]
Heading Home
from Molly Heath Assistant Vice President Jones Lang LaSalle A few of my Jones Lang LaSalle teammates and I took the afternoon recently to participate in “Up and Out Move” with Heading Home. Heading Home (http://www.headinghomeinc.org/) is a Cambridge-based non profit whose mission is to end homelessness in Greater Boston by providing housing in coordination [...]
Into the future
from Geoff Homer Research Analyst Jones Lang LaSalle In anticipation of this month’s Urban Land Institute 2011 Trends in Real Estate Forum at the Westin Copley Place, I just read the Emerging Trends report produced by ULI and PricewaterhouseCoopers. After reading it I first felt somewhat pessimistic about our city. I took another read through [...]
Is the Waterfront the new Kendall Square?
from Patrick Nugent Assistant Vice President Jones Lang LaSalle Mayor Menino now refers to 1,000 acres on the the South Boston Waterfront as the city’s Innovation District, and he’s challenging businesses to heed the call. Fan Pier is currently home to MassChallenge, a global start up competition offering $1M in prizes to the entrepreneurs of [...]