Retail

Little Necks Seafood Restaurant opens

After months of renovations, the Acapulco Restaurant on Rte. 18, has been transformed into a seafood restaurant, featuring fresh fish and Ja...

Shair of M&J Assoc. leases 2,800 s/f to new Burger King prototype

According to Mark Shair, president of M&J Associates, Inc., Burger King has opened at 32 Riverside St. The building is 2,800 s/f with 60 sea...

Boylston Realty Advisors leases 2,200 s/f to Portrait Innovations

Boylston Realty Advisors recently entered into a lease agreement with Portrait Innovations located at The Shops at Saugus. Portrait Innovati...

Bristol County Savings Bank breaks ground on new 3,500 s/f branch

Bristol County Savings Bank (BCSB) celebrated a ceremonial groundbreaking recently at the future site of its eleventh banking office and fir...

Redevelopment or reconfiguration of existing retail space from the mechanical and electrical perspective

It is almost impossible to visit a shopping center anywhere in the country without it being painfully obvious that there are more spaces tha...

A structural perspective on redevelopment of existing retail space/sustainability

In a buyer's market for commercial real estate, the idea of sprucing up an old, tired, shopping center, bought at a bargain price, can be ve...

Reposition and redevelop assets to make them competitive in today's marketplace

We are all familiar with the hardships that this down economy has caused businesses in our industry. During the past two years, we've seen t...

Environmental hazards inside buildings: PCBs are back in the news

A health risk to building occupants from polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, is coming back into the news; and this can be particularly bad ...

Design-builder provides innovative service during challenging times

While the current economic downturn has caused stores to close their doors, landlords to let their leases run out, and shopping centers to s...

January forecast in landscape architecture - tough sledding is a New England sport

Wow what a year! I spent my entire professional career in New England and as a Bostonian we have seen a lot of change in the past 30 years a...