Beacon Capital is buying office park in Waltham, possibly at record price
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Beacon Capital Partners LLC has agreed to buy Bay Colony Corporate Center, a prominent office complex on Route 128 in Waltham, for $274 million, according to real estate executives involved in the deal.
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The Boston Redevelopment Authority approved projects that could add nearly 400 residences in the city, including an expansion in Charles River Park. The BRA gave the green light to developer Equity Residential to move forward with the West End Residences at Emerson Place. The residences plan 306 rental apartments, 15 percent of which will be affordable. Equity said the project ...
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A $55 million purchase could be bigger than investors think.
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Boston Properties Inc., the real estate investment trust run by billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman, agreed to sell 5 Times Square for about $1.28 billion, a record price for a New York City office tower.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Mall operator Simon Property Group Inc. and hedge fund Farallon Capital Management said Friday they will buy the struggling mall developer The Mills Corp. for $1.64 billion after outbidding rival Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
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Raytheon Co. of Waltham is close to an agreement to sell its largest nondefense business, Raytheon Aircraft Co., to a private equity firm and is expected to complete the deal by the end of the year.
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The 322-room Tremont Boston was sold to Highland Hospitality Corp., a Virginia-based real estate investment trust that purchased the hotel along with three others for $227 million from Wyndham International Inc.
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Brookfield Properties Corp., which owns 48 commercial sites including the World Financial Center in New York, bought a 19-story office tower in Rosslyn, Virginia, from Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG for $106 million.
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The Boston Red Sox's principal owner  will buy half of the top team on the NASCAR racing circuit,  Roush Racing, in the first investment by a major league  baseball team in the country's fastest-growing sport.
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Adnexus Therapeutics Inc., an ambitious young biotech company in Waltham, says it is going public.
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By Steve Brown, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 14--Houston developer and investor Hines said Tuesday that it has purchased an Irving office complex.   Hines acquired Two MacArthur Ridge, a six-story, 247,000-square-foot office building in Las Colinas.
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Health Care REIT will acquire Windrose Medical Properties.
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Drug maker Shire PLC said its $210 million expansion plan for two new buildings on Patriot Way in Lexington is on hold. Spokesman Matthew Cabrey said the British company might build its manufacturing and technical facilities in Maryland, North Carolina, or Rhode Island unless Massachusetts offers enough incentives for it to go ahead with the project. He said ...
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The Motley Fool - On Monday, Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP - News) announced that it had agreed to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in a transaction valued at approximately $36 billion. The terms of the agreement call for Blackstone to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Equity Office at an 8.5% premium over its closing price on November 17, 2006.
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Beacon Capital Partners LLC, which had sold most of its Boston-area real estate, is jumping back in as a buyer despite record high prices for commercial properties, agreeing to acquire half of One Financial Center for a reported $390 million.
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The Blackstone Group  raised its bid for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $23 billion in cash on Tuesday after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer in the latest round of the fight to control the top U.S. office landlord.
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Alan Leventhal's Midas touch didn't work on one property in Boston. The Boston real estate executive and his firm Beacon Capital Partners LLC, which has made a bundle buying and selling big commercial properties such as the John Hancock Tower, unloaded a loser yesterday for $19 million less than it paid for it.