The pandemic has prevailed long enough to have established a new economy with new demography and technography – patterns of change, post pandemic. In many respects, the new norms are evolving, yet uncertainty about duration, shape and impact still prevails with daily impacts.
There has been a lot written about whether office life, or lack thereof, will ever be the same. It’s fairly clear…. that nothing is clear. Some say employees will zoom forever; some say they cannot survive at home; some say office employment be a mix of remote, virtual, and physical.
Gloucester, MA Fantini & Gorga has announced the placement of $1.8 million financing of a new, single-floor living condo complex featuring six units – many with ocean views, called Good Harbor Beach Condominiums.
Marlborough, MA JLL Capital Markets has arranged $66 million debt and equity financing for The Campus at Marlborough, a premier, four-building office campus totaling 531,916 s/f.
Boston, MA Berkadia has completed $21 million in combined financing secured for Beacon Fairbanks and Kilsyth Manor Apartments, two garden-style multifamily properties in the city. Managing director Robert Lipson
Braintree, MA Mike Marcone of Marcone Capital, Inc. has arranged the $18.375 million financing of Forbes Business Center, which consists of two office buildings totaling 131,132 s/f at 220 and 222 Forbes Rd.
Stamford, CT According to CIT Group Inc., its real estate finance business provided a $35.9 million senior secured loan for construction of a new 183-unit apartment building.
Fall River, MA Rockport Mortgage Corp. completed the closing of a $36.4 million FHA Section 223(f) refinancing loan for Borden Place Apartments, 261 units of age-restricted housing, located downtown.
Raynham, MA Peter Dello Russo, president and chief executive officer of Bridgewater Savings, has named the recipients of 14 academic scholarships totaling $21,000 awarded recently to local students.
Boston, MA This month, REFA double down on its commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. In 2018, REFA developed a DEI Policy, which was adopted by all of the divisions of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board.
Dorchester, MA MassHousing has closed on $25.6 million in affordable housing financing to the Lena Park Community Development Corp. for the renovation and extension of affordability for lower-income residents at the 143-unit Granite Lena Park.
As this COVID situation drags on and even escalates, we enter this summer with great discontent and uncertainty.We thought if we hunkered down for a few months, paid our dues by staying in our bunkers and acting virtually (and virtuously)