Archive for August 2021

The Baker administration has committed $4 million to an expanded apprenticeship program and has hopes for something far more ambitious: a $240 million proposal for similar job training. Read More

The MBTA has received nearly $860 million in federal aid that it’ll use to help balance its operating budgets for the coming few years. Read More

John Cruz, the president and CEO of the construction firm Cruz Companies, has been named the 2021 winner of the Boston Business Journal’s Lewis Family Foundation CEO Social Leadership Award, given as part of the BBJ’s Corporate Citizenship Awards program. Read More

Construction of a 17-story office and lab building in Boston’s Seaport District now being called "10 World Trade" — complete with auditorium, 300-meter running track and two acres of landscaped property — is expected to begin by the end of the year. Boston Global Investors CEO John Hynes III is hoping it can land a headquarters lease.…

Form D Friday is a Boston Business Journal feature highlighting regulatory filings from Boston-area companies raising capital for new projects or expanding their businesses. Read More

The biggest hotel in Massachusetts — the 1,220-room Sheraton Boston in the Back Bay — is on the selling block. Read More

The sportswear company acquired the shoe brand in 2006 for $3.8 billion. Read More

Good morning, Boston. Forget meteors, did you watch the Field of Dreams game last night? Here are the five things you need to know today, plus Census trivia, gas station auctions, Allston XMas, upper-crust whoopie pies and my annual rant. Read More

Suffolk County and its state capital of Boston carried an outsized portion of the state’s population growth in the past decade, according to new Census data. Read More

Health systems are reactivating dormant incident command centers and escalating employee outreach, in light of severe staffing challenges exacerbated by the Covid-19 Delta variant. Read More