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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:19:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148483.html Millennium Partners has the green light to control 1.2 million more square feet of residential, office and retail space in Boston's Downtown Crossing. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148483.html Jim Cronin Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:31:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148479.html Boston University is hoping to construct two new buildings totaling 445,000 square feet on its campus in coming years, along with adding 50,000 square feet to an existing facility, according to a recent filing with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148479.html Jim Cronin Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:29:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148478.html Staffing increases associated with converting to a stock bank dented Wellesley Bancorp's fourth quarter profit, which came in at $519,000 compared to $567,000 a year earlier. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148478.html Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:28:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148476.html Washington Trust has provided $20 million in commercial real estate financing to Highwood Investors LLC, an affiliate of BPG Properties Ltd. to refinance a Tewksbury office park. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148476.html Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148473.html RD Management LLC has acquired the 133,000-square-foot Meadow Brook Center shopping plaza adjacent to the Target store located at 199 Plain Street in Lowell. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148473.html Daily Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:17:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148464.html MassDevelopment has issued a $20 million tax-exempt bond on behalf of South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, the largest independently-operated hospital in Eastern Massachusetts. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148464.html Daily Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:16:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148463.html C&S Insurance Agency Inc. of Mansfield will acquire Colonial Insurance, the town's oldest insurance agency. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148463.html Daily Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:05:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148460.html Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit dropped 51 percent on impairment charges and other items, but its adjusted results beat analysts' expectations. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148460.html Daily Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:59:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148458.html Quanterix, a diagnostic testing company, has leased 19,802 square feet in a recently renovated life science lab building at 113 Hartwell Ave. in Lexington. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148458.html Daily Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:47:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148457.html Colliers International has brokered the sale of the former Georgia-Pacific corrugated manufacturing facility located at 210 Grove St. in Franklin for $2.8 million http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148457.html Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:29:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148475.html The CEOs of some of the nation's biggest homebuilding companies said Thursday they feel the housing market has stabilized. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148475.html Web Only Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:28:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148474.html Freddie Mac's regulator recently gave new detail on why it halted the company's controversial trades in complex mortgage-backed securities last year. In a letter to Senator Robert Casey (D-Pa), the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said the trades were risky and required specialized risk management. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148474.html Web Only Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:25:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148470.html A couple who lives in an $860,000 home in one of the wealthiest communities in Massachusetts has been charged with fraudulently obtaining tens of thousands of dollars in public housing subsidies. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148470.html Web Only Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:25:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148471.html Construction equipment dealers are looking forward to improving trends in 2012 while acknowledging the challenges facing the industry, according to survey results recently released by GE Capital, Dealer Finance. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148471.html Web Only Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:24:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148469.html In the most impressive surge for the job market since the middle of last decade, the nation added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148469.html Web Only Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:23:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148468.html First Niagara's aggressive expansion into the Nutmeg State continued with the poaching of an exec from Farmington Bank. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148468.html Web Only Thu, 02 Feb 2012 9:24:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148455.html Jones Lang LaSalle Inc., one of the largest real estate services companies, reported earnings that easily passed Wall Street's expectations, and its stock rose 5.3 percent. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148455.html Web Only Wed, 01 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148438.html Continuing education for real estate agents may have "raised the bar" for the profession - but the effect was felt far more on agent's wallets than consumers, according to a new report from a Suffolk University think tank. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148438.html Colleen M. Sullivan Web Only Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148430.html Massachusetts consumers aren't rushing to buy electricity generated by wind farms. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148430.html Web Only Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:24:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148428.html Freddie Mac agreed last month to stop making new bets against American homeowners after its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, raised concerns, according to a statement the agency issued late Monday. Freddie, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, still retains $5 billion worth of such bets. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148428.html Web Only Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148402.html As with many cool companies in the Boston area, Banker & Tradesman provides a gym for its newsroom staff. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148402.html Laurence D. Cohen Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148401.html Amidst all of the commentary, pro and con, on Representative Barney Frank’s career, scarcely anything has been said about his championship of a federal tax law policy that benefits all Massachusetts taxpayers – the tax exemption of municipal bonds. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148401.html Antonio D. Martini Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148395.html R. Robert Popeo has been an attorney for his entire professional career in the practice of law. He is chairman of the board of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo and in January took over the presidency of the National Association of Corporate Directors’ New England chapter. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148395.html Matt Brown Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148391.html With a new year comes a new commercial real estate monthly section for Banker & Tradesman’s readers: The CRE Insider. The CRE Insider, published the last Monday of each month, gives readers the inside scoop on the commercial real estate scene in Massachusetts. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148391.html Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148397.html While the poor economy prompted some of the nation’s largest banks and financial services firms to cut back on charitable giving last year, several community banks in Massachusetts found ways to give more – and benefit themselves, too. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148397.html Matt Brown Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148392.html Boston is a powerhouse for the life sciences industry. The city has led the country in National Institute of Health (NIH) funding for the last 16 years, receiving more than $21 billion. Boston has it all – world-class hospitals and universities, highly educated and dedicated academics and researchers and flexible real estate options. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148392.html Martina Toponarski Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148403.html It seems the federal government aren't the only folks to use enhanced interrogation techniques... http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148403.html Eskay Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148393.html A substantial wave of new building projects under way in Greater Boston dramatically bucks a national trend of stagnant commercial development, reflecting the health of the region’s bustling biotechnology sector.  http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148393.html Brendan Carroll Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148394.html Uncertainty is anathema to any business, but particularly so in the capital-intense world of pharmaceutical design and manufacturing. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148394.html David Patten Paper Mon, 30 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148399.html It was only a few short years ago that the phrase “social media” was likely to produce a bewildered stare or a snort of derision from anyone over the age of 21. But after a thousand webinars and breathless conference presentations – not to mention the prospect of 600 million-plus potential leads – many real estate agents are Facebooking and Tweeting with the best of them. http://warrengroup.fospher.org/news148399.html Colleen M. Sullivan Paper