Fired Up Young Workers Organize Our Future in Boston Some 85 union members, community activists and students age 35 and younger took part in the 2nd Annual “Organizing Our Future” conference hosted by the Greater Boston Labor Council Futures Committee at the Boston Teachers Union Hall.  The goal of the conference on Sunday was to empower, educate and connect young union members around Boston to be more knowledgeable and active in their local unions, in their communities and the Greater Boston Labor Council Futures Committee. Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, who Continue reading >>>

The YMCA of Greater Boston announces that Roslindale native and West Roxbury resident Patricia Barnwell is the new executive director of the Wang YMCA of Chinatown. Previously executive director of the Waltham YMCA, another YMCA of Greater Boston facility, Barnwell fostered strong relationships within the Y and surrounding communities and also aided in the strategic growth of the association. Serving the Greater Boston community has always been a passion of Barnwell's. She graduated from UMass-Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and from UMass-Boston with a master’s degree in Continue reading >>>

A groundbreaking ceremony for Tavern in the Square was held on Thursday, Feb. 9 at the New England Executive Park located on Mall Road. New England Executive Park is a 56-acre office campus with 13 buildings totaling 1.1 million square feet.  Majority owned and operated by Equity Office for the past ten years, the park hosts more than 75 global companies within the technology, legal, finance and professional service fields. Future plans for the park may also include a possible 250-room full service hotel and a 350,000 square foot Class A build-to-suit office building. “Tavern in the Square Continue reading >>>

To date, sellers have been reluctant participants in the real estate market since home prices began to fall more than five years ago. The result has been frustration for buyers, who have been eager to score deals but upset when confronted with the choices available. It is a market that for years now has been dominated by a lackluster choice of older homes in need of significant repair. So will we see more homes - and more importantly better homes - hit the market this spring? Certainly the economy is finally showing signs of life - that might encourage a few would-be mover-uppers to take a chance. Yet Continue reading >>>

Industrial space leased in Southborough August Brewer of Greater Boston Commercial Properties in Marlborough recently completed an industrial lease at 150 Cordaville Road in Southborough. Greater Boston Commercial Properties was initially engaged by the current tenant, MetroWest Gymnastics, to sublease the space for which there was just under three years left on the term. In less than 60 days, Greater Boston Commercial Properties secured a 5-year deal for the owner of the building, 150 Cordaville Road LLC, with the new tenant, Inside Playground LLC. This new deal resulted in the release of MetroWest Continue reading >>>

Looming federal budget cuts could cost Massachusetts more than 50,000 jobs over the next decade - mainly in key sectors such as defense, technology, and health care - and "strike at the very heart" of the state's innovation economy, an analysis by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute shows. Automatic across-the-board cuts are scheduled to start in 2013 unless the deeply divided Congress agrees to a better deal to lower the national debt. The automatic cuts would reduce federal spending by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years by slashing the defense budget and Continue reading >>>

“It’s not really about whether contraception would be included in insurance coverage,” says Tim LeFever, talking about the approach to including birth control in the plans of religious employers that the Obama administration is selling as a compromise with the Catholic Church. LeFever runs the Capitol Resource Institute, a Focus-on-the-Family-type group, and is a California real estate lawyer. Access to contraception is settled law, he points out, some 50 years after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Griswold v. Connecticut. “It’s that with our country’s tradition of religious Continue reading >>>