(NECN) -  The Economic Outlook Breakfast was held Thursday morning in Boston, hosted by Santander Bank and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.      Michael A. Lee, the director of commercial banking and real estate from Santander U.S. joined us with more on what happened, including a unique audience survey they took.He said there were very encouraging and optimistic results, as participants said the New England economy is in a growth trajectory.Lee said business owners have been doing well to manage both growth and demand. Continue reading >>>

By Susan PetroniThe Internship Collaborative, a partnership led by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Greater Boston Chamber, announced yesterday, March 19, an expanded partnership with the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce, officially bringing InternHub.com to students, employers, and career counselors in that region. Though the site — which launched in 2013 — is available to students and employers across the Commonwealth, this partnership will help further expand and promote InternHub.com throughout the MetroWest region."Currently, more than 5,000 students are Continue reading >>>

Hotels in Greater Boston are full around the date of the Boston Marathon, forcing some runners to seek lodging as far away as Rhode Island,  Reuters reports. The news service says hoteliers report especially high demand this year, in part because Marathon organizers expanded the field so runners forced to abandon due to last year's bombings could participate. Continue reading >>>

By Scott O’Connell
Daily News Staff


Posted Mar. 20, 2014 @ 12:01 am

By Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff Mayor Martin Walsh is seeking far greater power in the evaluation of casino proposals on the city’s border, declaring that Boston is entitled to hold a referendum on each proposal, to negotiate massive compensation packages with the developers and, if it so chooses, to block a casino from being built. Walsh’s administration made the claim in two letters to the state gambling commission tonight, in which the city insists it is a “host community,� under the 2011 casino law, to the Mohegan Sun casino project in Revere and a Wynn Continue reading >>>

Mayor Martin J. Walsh is seeking far greater power in evaluating casino proposals on the city’s border, declaring that Boston is entitled to hold a referendum on each proposal, to negotiate massive compensation packages with the developers, and, if it so chooses, to block a casino from being built. Walsh’s administration made the assertion in two letters to the state gambling commission Wednesday in which the city declares that it is a host community, under the 2011 casino law, to a Mohegan Sun casino project at Suffolk Downs in Revere and a Wynn Resorts proposal on the Mystic River waterfront Continue reading >>>

The $15 million project will update the 61-year-old facility with the demolition of 16,000 square feet from an existing building, and the construction of a 24,000-square-foot addition, said JLL, a commercial real estate services firm that recently shortened its name from Jones Lang LaSalle. JLL has a big presence in the Greater Boston market, and its Project and Development Services group is working on the YMCA expansion. The project includes a renovated gymnasium, a new state-of-the art fitness center, a new lobby, two wellness studios and an extended parking area. The outdated indoor swimming Continue reading >>>

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 12:04pm JLL's project and development services group will be the project manager for the YMCA of Greater Boston's $15-million expansion of its West Roxbury facility.The West Roxbury YMCA serves more than 10,000 members of the surrounding communities. The project will update the 61-year-old facility with the demolition of 16,000 square feet from an existing building and the construction Continue reading >>>

Here's the latest installment of Bates By the Numbers, a weekly feature by Boston real estate agent David Bates that drills down into the Hub's housing market to uncover those trends you would not otherwise see. Check out his ebook, Context: Nine Key Condo Markets, 2.0. Mark Pearlstein's strategy that built one of the most dominant rental companies in Greater Boston was born out of the most painful and frustrating aspect of the rental business: the times he told customers they were all set on the apartment only to find out later that the landlord had taken an application from another rental Continue reading >>>

The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for 1-3 inches of snow tonight. The precipitation should start with a rain/snow mix mainly north of the Massachusetts / Rhode Island / Connecticut borders, with rain generally to the south of the border. There may be some sleet mixing in across the higher terrain of the Monadnocks and Northern Worcester Hills that may bring a light accumulation. Winds may become gusty on Thursday as yet another cold front works its way through the Greater Boston area. A few snow showers may also linger over the Cape and the Islands. Today Continue reading >>>