Taurus/UrbanMeritage JV acquires 899 Boylston St. for $9.6 million
Taurus/UrbanMeritage JV acquired 899 Boylston St. from Gubbins/McMahon Boylston St. LP for $9.6 million.
The buyer is a joint venture between Taurus Investment Holdings LLC, Anglo Irish Bank Corp. PLC, and UrbanMeritage LLC.
The 16,258 s/f retail and office building is located in the city's Back Bay neighborhood. The three-story property was built in 1920 and renovated in 2001. The building is 100% leased to Trader Joe's, Staples Copy and Print Center and Berklee College of Music.
Cushman & Wakefield of Mass. Inc. represented the seller and the buyer.
This shift from transaction-driven to release-driven regulation is already influencing how buyers, sellers, and developers evaluate environmental risk. Under the CPTP framework, environmental obligations were often triggered solely because a qualifying property changed ownership. The result was that many transactions became bogged down by environmental compliance requirements that had little relationship to current environmental risks.
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