CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged the $53.6 million sale of 929 MASS, a two-building, mixed-use property in Cambridge, located across the Charles River from Boston. The property consists of 18-story building with 96 apartments, 12,451 square feet of commercial space and 101 parking spaces, along with a contiguous five-story building with 31 residential units. Travis D’Amato, Michael Coyne, Brendan Shields, Kevin Gleason and Maggie McFarland of Walker & Dunlop represented the undisclosed, institutional seller in the transaction. The buyer was John M Corcoran & Co.
REVERE, MASS. — MassDevelopment has provided $23.5 million in tax-exempt bond financing for a 56-unit affordable housing project in Revere, located just east of Boston. The building at 110 Ocean Ave. will have 32 units for households earning 50 percent or less of the area median income (AMI) and 24 units for households earning 30 percent or less of AMI. In addition to 48 one-, two- and three-bedroom units, the building will also have eight group living units. The borrower is an affiliate of local owner-operator The Neighborhood Developers.Construction is underway and is expected to be complete in fall 2027. TD Bank purchased the bond.
EVERETT, MASS. — South Carolina-based developer Greystar has topped out a 416-unit multifamily project in the eastern Boston suburb of Everett. The project represents the second phase of a larger development at 1690 Revere Beach Parkway, the first phase of which totals 325 units and is known as Jade. Phase II is known as Juniper and will offer amenities such as courtyards, a fitness center and a lounge with a golf simulator. CUBE3 Architects designed both properties, which between them will include 850 parking spaces and 10,500 square feet of retail space. Juniper is expected to be complete before the end of the year. Construction of Juniper began in summer 2024.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — JLL has arranged a $23 million loan for the refinancing of a 65-unit apartment building in Cambridge. The seven-story building at 1008 Mass Ave. was completed in 1999 and offers studio, one- and two-bedroom units, as well as ground-floor retail space. Amenities include a fitness center and a sundeck. Anthony Cutone, Madeline Joyce and Michael Schwarze of JLL arranged the loan through Manulife / John Hancock Life Insurance Co. The borrower was not disclosed. Boston Residential Group provided support for the transaction.
REVERE, MASS. — A partnership between regional developer HYM Investment Group, private investment group Cathexis Holdings and Related Fund Management has broken ground on Portico, a 473-unit multifamily project in Revere, located northeast of Boston. The site is located within Suffolk Downs, a 161-acre, mixed-use redevelopment of a former horseracing complex. Portico will offer studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans and 33,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Amenities will include a sky deck, lounge with a kitchen, courtyard with flex spaces and grilling stations, recording pods, a fitness center and a veranda with a coffee bar and private workspaces. Prellwitz Chilinski Architects is designing the project, and Suffolk Construction is serving as the general contractor. Completion is slated for early 2028.
CHARLESTOWN, MASS. — Electrochemistry company Ionomr Innovations Inc. has opened 22,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Charlestown, located north of Boston. The facility, which includes research-and-development space, is located within Hood Park, which is a redevelopment of the former facility of dairy producer H.P. Hood & Sons. Ionomr expects the facility to account for the creation of 40 new jobs over the next three years.
NEWTON, MASS. — Gilbane Building Co. has topped out a 19,335-square-foot academic project in metro Boston. The building is a new dining hall for students at The Fessenden School, a K-12 establishment in Newton, located just west of the state capital. The building will feature an all-electric kitchen and a flexible design that divides the dining room into two zones separated by a central servery and flex bar.
WATERTOWN, MASS. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Watertown Mews, a 206-unit apartment complex located on the western outskirts of Boston. Built in 2014, Watertown Mews offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units with an average size of 1,014 square feet. Amenities include a pool, community room, business center, media room, fitness center, community garden and outdoor dining and grilling stations. Simon Butler, Biria St. John, John McLaughlin and Brian Bowler of CBRE represented the seller, an account advised by PGIM, in the transaction and procured the buyer, Mesirow.
NEW YORK CITY AND BOSTON — Affiliates of New York City-based investment firm Makarora Management and global investment firm Ares Management Corp. (NYSE: ARE) have completed the $2.1 billion, all-cash acquisition of Boston-based Plymouth Industrial REIT. Under the terms of the deal, which was announced last fall, Plymouth shareholders will receive $22 for each share of common stock they own, and Plymouth will no longer be traded or listed on any public securities exchange. The transaction also calls for the acquiring entities to assume certain pieces of Plymouth’s outstanding debt. The purchase price represents a premium of approximately 50 percent to Plymouth’s unaffected closing common stock price on August 18, 2025. That date marks the last trading day prior to the filing of a Schedule 13D by affiliates of Sixth Street Partners LLC disclosing a nonbinding proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Plymouth’s common stock.
CHARLESTOWN, MASS. — Lydian, a Massachusetts-based provider of synthetic fuels, has opened a 25,000-square-foot life sciences facility in Charlestown, located north of Boston. The space is located within Hood Park, a 20-acre mixed-use redevelopment of the former H.P. Hood and Sons dairy facility, and will support operations at Lydian’s demonstration plant. The launch of that facility is scheduled for 2027.
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