Boston Firm Buys R.I. Biomanufacturing Site from Shuttered Biotech

February 15, 2023 | By Greg Ryan and Mary C. Serreze, Boston Business Journal A Boston-based real estate firm has ventured across the border into Rhode Island for its latest life sciences play. The Davis Cos. has purchased a biomanufacturing facility in Smithfield, Rhode Island, from Rubius Therapeutics Inc., a Cambridge-based Flagship Pioneering spinout that […]

Davis Promotes Josh Israel to Chief Financial Officer

January 31, 2023 | By Boston Real Estate Times BOSTON– The Davis Companies announced that Josh Israel has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. A seasoned financial leader in Greater Boston’s real estate community, Israel brings more than 20 years of diversified experience in finance, accounting, private equity investment and investor relations to his new role. “Josh has long […]

Housing Advocates, Davis Cos. Exec to Co-Chair Key Healey Transition Team

November 18th, 2022 | By James Sanna, Banker and Tradesman A pair of prominent housing advocates and a leader in a prolific Boston development firm will lead the effort to get incoming Gov. Maura Healey’s housing policy initiatives up and running. Healey’s campaign announced that its transition committee focused on “abundant, affordable housing” would be […]

Davis Appoints Leslie Cohen As Chief Operating Officer

October 3rd, 2022 Long-time real estate industry leader to support firm’s continued strategic growth Boston, MA – The Davis Companies (Davis) has announced that Leslie Cohen has been named as its Chief Operating Officer. Cohen is a long-time leader in greater Boston’s real estate community and brings broad experience to Davis in all aspects of […]

Topping Off Held For Watertown Life Science Campus

August 26th, 2022 | by High-Profile Watertown, MA – The Davis Companies and Boston Development Group (BDG) recently celebrated the ceremonial topping-off of Phase One of 66 Galen Street in Watertown, a 224,000rsf, purpose-built, Class A life science building designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects. This milestone marks the completion of the structural phase of construction and […]

Glenmede Trust Company to land office at Union Trust Building

Apr. 19th, 2022 | by Pittsburgh Business Times The Glenmede Trust Co. has committed to take a nearly 8,000-square-foot office at the Union Trust Building a year after the Philadelphia firm announced it was setting up shop with a Pittsburgh office. The Davis Cos., which owns Union Trust and has put it through a $100 million […]

Davis Companies Begins Cap Improvements at Maspeth’s Pearl Building

August 8th, 2022 | ConnectCRE A multimillion-dollar capital improvement program has begun at the Pearl Building, a 156,792-square-foot industrial building at 58-30 Grand Ave. in Maspeth, Queens. Cushman & Wakefield’s Joshua A. Kleinberg and Joe Hentze Jr. will serve as the exclusive leasing agents on behalf of the landlord, The Davis Companies. “With continuing demand […]

Davis Cos. sells Terminal 21 apartment property downtown to New York investment group

Mar 23, 2022 | By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times The Davis Cos. may have just finished a $15 million investment to reposition the former Shannon Hall from serving as student housing for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh to a market rate apartment building. But that didn’t keep the Boston-based company from leasing up a […]