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By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Chestnut Hill Realty, a real estate company also known as CHR, said it was able to lease 54 new apartments in Norwood complex called Norwest Woods within three months of those apartments going on the market, another sign of a tight rental market in Greater Boston. During the fourth quarter of 2011, the vacancy rate for the local rental market dropped to a nine-year low of 4 percent, and rents were at record highs, according to data from Reis Inc., a New York company that tracks real estate activity. Those trends were largely driven by an insufficient inventory Continue reading >>>

Lawrence D. ‘Butch’ Morris: A Conduction with New England Conservatory” Offers a Vision of a Sonic Future Where Orchestral Music and Jazz Come Together and Creative Expression is Unshackled Coproduced by NEC and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Collaboration with JazzBoston   “All kinds of folks downtown are conducting improvisers these days, but Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris is the orchestrator who gave the concept wings.” - Time Out New York  ”Mr. Morris’s music has a cinematic quality that paints vibrant images in the listener’s head. At times he directs Continue reading >>>

The Greater Boston MBA Consortium Fair The Greater Boston MBA Consortium will hold its annual free MBA Forum for prospective business school applicants. At this free event, attendees will be able to attend workshops and meet representatives from New England-area business schools. Participating schools include: Babson, Bentley, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Bryant, Clark, Hult, MIT Sloan, Northeastern, Simmons, Suffolk, UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, and WPI. Continue reading >>>

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 >>>