Archive for January 2025

  One of the largest employee-benefits firms in Massachusetts has more than doubled its number of Massachusetts employee-benefit consultants over last year.  Read More

  The Boston software company has named the company’s chief product officer, Dan Faulkner, its new chief executive.  Read More

  Good morning, Boston. Here are the five things you need to know in local business news to start your busy Friday — and the answer to the housing-affordability crisis.  Read More

  Taneshia Nash Laird’s latest endeavor in a varied career is running Project REAP, a decades-old national nonprofit dedicated to helping people of color break into commercial real estate.  Read More

  This spring, the business community and all employers in Massachusetts have an opportunity to affirm our commitment to DEI. The executive chair of Eastern Bank urges companies to participate in the BBJ’s first Employer Diversity Index.  Read More

  The town will vote on a referendum on Jan. 14 whether to accept a zoning plan that would make it easier to build 3,300 homes in town. Many business owners are advocating in favor of the plan.  Read More

  A new zoning plan would allow high-rises all along the Common side of Washington Street in Downtown Crossing. A previous version of the plan had allowed only one high-rise there, and even that was enough to attract vocal opposition.  Read More

  Chris Pennie, a co-president of construction firm Lee Kennedy Co., has died after a battle with cancer, just weeks after he was promoted by the Quincy company.  Read More

  If approved by regulators, the new branch would be Eagle Bank’s first location outside Massachusetts.  Read More

  The last time Aqua Security in Burlington cut its workforce was in the summer of last year.  Read More