SOMERVILLE, MASS. — A development team of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and Leggat McCall Properties has completed 101 South Street, a 289,000-square-foot life sciences project in Somerville, located on the northern outskirts of Boston. The building is the first of four master-planned life sciences facilities within the 1.8 million-square-foot Boynton Yards development. Architecture firms Spagnolo Gisness & Associates and Hashim Sarkis Studios designed the project, and Shawmut Design & Construction served as the general contractor. Flagship Pioneering and its affiliates lease 280,000 square feet of the nine-story building.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — CBRE has negotiated the $103 million sale of Flats on First, a newly built, 136-unit apartment complex in Cambridge. Designed by Perkins Eastman and constructed by Tocci Building Cos., Flats on First comprises two buildings that house a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as 15,800 square feet of retail space and a 142-space underground parking garage. Amenities include a clubroom, fitness center, rooftop deck, open-air amphitheater and a landscaped courtyard. Sixteen apartments are reserved as affordable housing for residents earning 80 percent or less of the area median income. Simon Butler, Biria St. John and John McLaughlin of CBRE represented the seller, an affiliate of locally based developer UrbanSpaces, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, an affiliate of Barings LLC, an international investment management firm owned by insurance giant MassMutual.
BOSTON — InterSystems Corp., a Boston-based provider of data management services and healthcare information systems, has signed a 420,000-square-foot office lease in the state capital’s downtown area. The company will relocate from its current address at 1 Memorial Drive in Cambridge to One Congress, a 1 million-square-foot tower by The HYM Investment Group that is nearing completion, where it will occupy the top 14 floors. InterSystems Corp. will join financial services firm State Street Corp. and global law firm K&L Gates as the building’s anchor tenants. John Barry, Peter McQuaid and Jeff Landers of CBRE represented the landlord, a joint venture between Carr Properties and National Real Estate Advisors LLC, in the lease negotiations. Dave Fitzgerald and Tim Howe, also with CBRE, represented the tenant.
BOSTON — Locally based mortgage banking firm Fantini & Gorga has arranged a $13 million loan for the refinancing of The Berkeley Building, a historic office and retail property in Boston’s Back Bay area. The building was originally constructed in 1906. Wayne Clough and Colin Monahan of Fantini & Gorga arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through Lincoln Financial Group. The sponsor, Boston-based A.W. Perry Inc., will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements.
CAMBRDIGE, MASS. — Callahan Construction Managers has completed the renovation and expansion of Squirrelwood Apartments, an affordable housing project located across the Charles River from Boston in Cambridge. The project involved renovating 10 of the property’s buildings and constructing two more from the ground up. Of the 88 units, 64 are reserved for renters earning 60 percent or less of the area median income (AMI); 14 residences are restricted to households earning 30 to 50 percent of AMI, and the remaining 10 are designated as Massachusetts Workforce program units.
EVERETT, MASS. — South Carolina-based development and management firm Greystar has broken ground on 35 Garvey Street, a 450-unit apartment community in the eastern Boston suburb of Everett. The project will transform a vacant former industrial site in Everett’s evolving Commercial Triangle into a transit-oriented development. About 5 percent (23) of the units will be reserved as affordable housing. The community will also include a 564-space parking garage and 6,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space. A tentative completion date was not disclosed.
BOSTON — International developer Skanska has completed a 118,000-square-foot expansion project in Boston for Brookline High School. The new building sits partially atop the MBTA’s Brookline Hills station and features lab space, classrooms for general use, dedicated event space, dining and food service areas, a library and collaboration spaces. Skanska also demolished a large portion of the existing campus to build a new, 70,000-square-foot wing with biology and chemistry labs/classrooms, collaboration and maker spaces, a culinary arts kitchen and a student restaurant/café.
WILMINGTON, MASS. — Boston-based mortgage banking firm EagleBridge Capital has arranged $38 million in debt and joint venture equity financing for a 210,945-square-foot office and lab complex in the northern Boston suburb of Wilmington. Located at 181 and 187 Ballardvale St., the two buildings sit on a combined 15.4 acres and each span approximately 105,000 square feet. Ted Sidel and Brian Walsh arranged the financing, specific terms of which were not disclosed, on behalf of an unnamed borrower.
BOYLSTON, MASS. — Rand-Whitney, a packaging company owned by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, will open a 384,000-square-foot industrial facility in Boylston, located in Worcester County in the central part of the state. Design-build firm PROCON broke ground on the project earlier this month. When fully operational in April 2023, the new packaging facility will have the potential to manufacture 300 million boxes annually and will add between 50 and 100 new jobs to the local economy.
BOURNE, MASS. — Boston-based brokerage firm Horvath & Tremblay has negotiated the $6 million sale of Bourne Bridge Crossing, a 23,968-square-foot retail strip center located south of Boston in Barnstable County. Tenants at the three-acre property include PetSmart, Starbucks and Domino’s. Bob Horvath and Todd Tremblay represented the buyer and seller, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.