Archive for April 2025

  Billions in small-business assistance remain available through a pandemic-era program that’s still going strong.  Read More

  The headquarters building for Chewy on Congress Street in Fort Point has traded hands for $48 million.  Read More

  Coming back from an early defeat in 2025, HYCU was trying to recreate the magic of its 2023 run and, in the face of stiff competition, climbed its way back to the top.  Read More

  After a months-long search, State Street has recruited a CFO from another major financial institution to oversee its finances.  Read More

  Suffolk University issued a $158 million bond on Tuesday to help finance a planned conversion of an office building on Tremont Street into a new dormitory.  Read More

  The plans to restore and renovate the historic Hotel Alexandra on the border of Boston’s South End and Roxbury neighborhoods have changed many times over the past several years, but developers of the property said they are getting close to the go-ahead.  Read More

  A new Providence-based hedge fund with ties to Point Judith Capital has raised nearly $100 million for its inaugural fund. Point Judith is the VC firm co-founded by Gina Raimondo, the former Rhode Island governor who became Commerce Secretary under President Joe Biden, that moved to Boston in 2012.  Read More

  Gov. Maura Healey’s budget proposal in January called for slashing the DMH case manager workforce in half, from 340 to 170 individuals. The threatened layoffs have prompted an outcry over mental health care access.  Read More

  A popular language app and a major e-commerce platform are leaning into AI, but a surprising new study shows where humans still outperform machines.  Read More

  The Boston-based REIT, which has a portfolio of nearly 149,000 cell towers and other infrastructure worldwide, has also been affected by fluctuations in currency exchange rates.  Read More