Archive for February 2024

The city’s permitting review process has begun for the first of a series of planned conversions of downtown Boston office buildings into residential space. Read More

Two Flagship Pioneering spinouts — one based in Watertown and one from Cambridge — are reducing their workforces. Read More

Steward has refused to disclose its finances to the state for years. Now, Gov. Maura Healey is demanding that the troubled health system cough up more information. Read More

An Employee Stock Ownership Plan can be an alternative to private equity. Here’s how it works. Read More

UMass Amherst has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to create and develop a multimillion-dollar research center to accelerate offshore wind initiatives across the country. Read More

Last August, the company said it had “initiated cost savings actions" but did not disclose how many employees were cut. Read More

The new head of human resources at the state’s largest health plan formerly worked at consulting form Egon Zehnder as well as the company behind Snapchat. Read More

A local EV battery recycling company has raised another $162 million as part of a Series D round in order to build a million-square-foot factory in Kentucky. Read More

Two forces are working to pull home prices in opposite directions: high mortgage rates can keep some would-be buyers on the sidelines, but low inventory is giving them few options. These days, low inventory is winning. Read More