Real Estate News

Friday, February 10, 2012

Post-buyout, Atrium Medical plans new site
Atrium Medical Corp., the Hudson, N.H.-based medical devices firm acquired by Swedish company Getinge Group in October, will not be building a new facility in Merrimack, N.H. Instead, the company will look to occupy an existing facility in Merrimack, according to a published report.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Dana-Farber lands $10M grant for cancer imaging research
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was awarded a $10 million grant today from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support the expansion of its cancer imaging research program.
Enterasys leaving Andover, moving back to NH
Enterasys Networks, maker of telecom and networking hardware and software, is pulling up stakes in Andover, and relocating to a new, larger facility over the border in Salem, N.H.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Joslin to build new diabetes research center with $10.8M support
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center awarded a $5 million grant to the Joslin Diabetes Center, which said it plans to match the grant, bringing in a total of $10.8 million to build the Translational Center for the Cure of Diabetes in Boston's Longwood Medical area.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

RI's Vertical Performance Partners expanding to Boston
Providence, R.I.-based Vertical Performance Partners plans to open a Boston office this quarter, as it grows its business for turning corporate training and marketing content into apps for the iPad.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Betaspring's new $4.25M fund will back 100 startups
Providence, R.I.-based startup accelerator Betaspring has raised $1.13 million of a planned $4.25 million for Betaspring Fund 100 LLC, according to an SEC filing.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Pyxis rebrands as Verivo Software, grabs $17M to help
Pyxis Mobile Inc. has become a victim of its own success, CEO Steven Levy said, so the company is starting off the new year with new digs, a new $17 million round of funding and a new name and brand – Verivo Software Inc.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Report: Amazon opens book on Cambridge office
California-based online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. is looking to open an office in Cambridge, eventually hiring up to 150 people, a Boston Globe report indicated.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Nanigans expands with San Francisco site
Nanigans Inc., the Boston advertising platform startup, is growing west and opening a new San Francisco office. With its focus on the Facebook Ads API, Nanigans will have a closer geographical tie to Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook.

Friday, December 2, 2011

InVivo signs new Cambridge lease, plans new hires
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp., a life sciences company focused on potential treatments for spinal cord injuries, has entered into a six-year lease for a new 21,000 square-foot headquarters at One Kendall Square in Cambridge.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

H3 Biomedicine opens new headquarters, labs in Cambridge
H3 Biomedicine Inc., a personalized cancer drug discovery company launched earlier this year with $200 million in research funding from Eisai, is opening its new headquarters and 24,000 square feet of laboratory space in Cambridge this afternoon.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Beacon Power devalues N.Y. plant by 77%
Just a couple of weeks into its bankruptcy process, Beacon Power Corp. has written down the value of its Stephentown, N.Y., energy storage plant as it moves toward a liquidation of its assets, according to court and regulatory documents filed this week.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Hadapt takes in $9.5M, moves to Cambridge
Software developer Hadapt Inc., which is working with open source data analytics tool Hadoop, reported this morning that it has closed a $9.5 million Series A round of financing, and is moving its operations from Stamford, Conn., to Cambridge.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Boston's Fan Pier gets a $50M funding from I-Cubed
The section of South Boston's planned Innovation District known as Fan Pier has won approval for $50 million from a state-run public-private program – the Innovative Infrastructure Investment – for development, part of which will be the new 1.1 million square foot headquarters for Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Monday, October 17, 2011

South Korea's AnC Bio could bring 200 jobs to Vermont
AnC Bio VT, a South Korean portable dialysis and cell therapy firm, is setting up in a 20,000-square-foot building it has leased in Newport, Vt., where it plans to eventually double that space and add 200 jobs.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Jackson Lab expands to Conn., lands $58M in NIH funds
The Jackson Laboratory, the Bar Harbor, Maine-based genetics research institution, is expanding its reach to Connecticut by building a $1.1 billion laboratory and, simultaneously, taking in $58.1 million in funding support from the National Institutes of Health for new initiatives.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Helicos downsizes Cambridge office and lab space
Helicos BioSciences has amended its Cambridge lease for the seventh time, shrinking its office and lab space to 6,689 square feet, from 53,562 square feet a little over a year ago.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

New Zealand nanotech firm Izon to open U.S. HQ in Cambridge
Nanotechnology company Izon Science Ltd. of Christchurch, New Zealand, plans to launch its U.S. headquarters on Sept. 21 at One Kendall Square in Cambridge, where the company will also sponsor the Inter-University Nanotechnology Measurement Championships.

Friday, September 16, 2011

E-health consultancy Arcadia Solutions rides a growth spurt
Arcadia Solutions, a Burlington-based healthcare consultancy, is expecting high growth and looking for bigger offices following the recent acquisition of Chelmsford-based IT health-care services provider Concordant Inc.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

M2D2 set to open renovated med device incubator space in Lowell
The University of Massachusetts Lowell is planning an official opening of its renovated medical device business incubator, the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) on Sept. 22.