Civetta Therapeutics Leases 29,871 SF at The Quad in West Cambridge

December 12, 2019 | Boston Real Estate Times BOSTON – The Davis Companies announced that Civetta Therapeutics, LLC leased 29,871 square feet of laboratory and office space at The Quad at 10 Wilson Road in Cambridge, MA. Civetta Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics for cancer and other diseases. McKenna K. Teague […]

Repositioning Commercial Properties for Generation Z

Seamless Design Strategy Echoes Tech Devices November 4, 2019 | Banker & Tradesman | By Karen Bala With an occupancy rate hovering around 90 percent, the commercial real estate market in Boston is in very good shape compared to the national average. This happy news comes with a challenge for owners: how to identify assets in […]

The Davis Cos. Harvests Cambridge Office Building for $57.5M to North Colony, Paradigm

By Joe Clements | Nov. 3, 2019 Cambridge — A fast-tracked Davis Cos. upgrade of 625 Mount Auburn St. near Harvard Square has culminated in a $57.5 million sale of the first-class, 137,400-sf office building to North Colony Asset Management and Paradigm Properties with $35 million in financing provided from Jackson National Life Insurance Co. JLL Capital Markets orchestrated the exchange after […]

Life Science Growth Spurt Transforms Alewife

Amid Boom, Still a Discount to Kendall Square By Jay Fitzgerald | Sep 29, 2019 With recent major deals and more on the way, West Cambridge’s Alewife neighborhood has emerged as a life science cluster that any other city in the nation would love to claim as its own.  Granted, the Alewife/West Cambridge market, with about […]

Is There a Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion?

By Ralph Boyd | August 26, 2019 This article features the Omni Seaport Hotel and originally premiered in the 2019 Fall issue of Urban Land on page 228. In recent years, discussions about diversity and inclusion (D&I) have evolved from focusing on social preferences, values, fairness, and opportunity, to whether a business case for diversity can be made. Increasingly, […]

The Davis Companies Sells Alewife Research Center for $333M

CAMBRIDGE, MA—HCP Inc, an Irvine, CA-based REIT, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire life science property 35 Cambridge Park Drive here for $332.5 million. The 224,000-square-foot LEED Gold lab building is being purchased from a partnership of The Davis Companies and Invesco Real Estate. The deal increases HCP’s Cambridge holdings to in excess of […]

Syros Pharmaceuticals Moving HQ to 35 Cambridge Park Drive

Boston | September 13, 2019 | By Catherine Carlock – Real Estate Editor, Boston Business Journal _______________________________ Cambridge-based Syros Pharmaceuticals Inc. is expanding its headquarters in a move to Alewife from East Cambridge — an expansion that will give the biotech capacity to double its employee base. Syros (Nasdaq: SYRS) has been located in Kendall […]