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If 101 Fernwood fetches anything close to its listing price, it will top the $16 million John Henry shelled out back in 2007 for his own Brookline spread. Henry promptly tore down the red brick Georgian Revival colonial - snapped up from former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt - to make way for his own custom-built mansion. Here's a blurb from the press release sent out by Coldwell Banker - sales associate Deborah Gordon has the listing. Not sure what kind of commission she's getting on this deal, but just do the math on 5 percent of $18 million - it's a cool $900,000. Here's a Journal piece Continue reading >>>

It’s been 10 years since a Harvard dropout founded a little website for college students. But Mark Zuckerberg’s most lasting achievement probably won’t be Facebook. It will be the premise that anyone with a smart idea can build a Facebook and become, well, the next Mark Zuckerberg, with or without the college degree long seen as an essential steppingstone to success. It makes sense that Greater Boston would be at the center of it all, with more than 250,000 college students and a burgeoning tech scene. The pathway for entry into the startup world, though not clearly marked, goes through so-called Continue reading >>>

By Ed Donga

The Enterprise


Posted Jun. 10, 2014 @ 2:35 am
Updated Jun 10, 2014 at 12:35 PM

On June 28, cyclists can take their clothes off and pedal through the city. Naked Bike Ride photo Uploaded by S. Mirk on Flickr For the fifth consecutive year, cyclists from the Greater Boston area can take a ride through the streets without their clothes on. On Saturday, June 28, the World Naked Bike Ride, where hundreds of attendees shed their clothes, mount their rides, and pedal through several neighborhoods to call attention to the vulnerability of cyclists, is coming back to Boston. According to event details, riders will meet at the bandstand on Boston Common at 9 p.m. Continue reading >>>

The overall apartment vacancy rate in Boston, now at 3.8 percent, will cross the 6 percent mark in 2016, Hans Nordby, a managing director for CoStar Group, told an audience of real estate developers and brokers gathered at the Seaport Boston Hotel. In fact, there are already signs the bloom is coming off the rose. Here's a quote from Nordby, which I've lifted from the BT piece. "We're starting to see a slowdown in new projects, as some of the projects do not meet their pro formas. We're starting to see more concessions," he said. Some luxury apartment builders are even offering several Continue reading >>>

Thursday, June 12, 2014, 11:36am By Steve Adams Banker Tradesman Staff Writer Greater Boston's busy development scene shows little sign of slackening through 2015 with strong demand for commercial and multifamily properties, analysts predicted at an industry event Thursday.Tenants are in the market for 4.4 million square feet of office space in downtown Boston, an increase of 69 percent from 2012, said Continue reading >>>

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — The state attorney general's office has announced that it will review the 2009 death of a mentally ill man at Bridgewater State Hospital. Joshua Messier, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, died after guards secured him in restraints on a bed. The death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, but no one was ever criminally charged. Several guards and administrators were disciplined. Attorney General Martha Coakley said in a statement the circumstances of Messier's death "warrant a thorough review ... to ensure that we are treating people with mental Continue reading >>>

The Arts can be a nebulous term, including everything from street performances to grand concerts,  fringe theater companies to big Broadway-bound shows, local artists dotting canvases to masters gracing museum walls. What’s no longer nebulous though—the arts are an economic engine.  A new report by the non-profit group ArtsBoston reveals the arts are a $1.4 billion annual industry in Greater Boston. That’s no surprise to developer and philanthropist Ron Druker.  “I think the reasons why we have new flights coming in from Dubai and from Bejing and from Istanbul and from Tokyo is not Continue reading >>>

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston will present South Pacific from today, June 12-22 at the Robinson Theatre (617 Lexington St. Waltham, MA, 02452). South Pacific will open Reagle's 46th Annual Summer Season, followed by Me and My Girl (July 10-20) and Singin' In the Rain (August 7-17). South Pacific is the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic about navy life set against the backdrop of a lush tropical island during WWII. Considered radical for depicting cross-cultural marriage when it premiered in 1949, Reagle is proud to reprise the beloved musical that follows two love stories threatened by Continue reading >>>