As summer winds down, the vacancies are adding up quickly while tenants await help from City Hall and the marketplace’s developer.
Rents are down by more than 3 percent, compared with this time in 2019, according to one report. Concessions granted to renters are up, with landlords and brokers sweetening deals.
The deal continues a trend toward more life sciences expansion in the suburbs.
The number represents half of the casino’s employees prior to the pandemic.
Six years after the state completed a $90 million data network to serve the region, thousands of Western Massachusetts families and small businesses still do not have access to reliable high-speed Internet service.
Big job losses and reductions again strike several key industries.
Parents are planning, and spending, “for all possible scenarios.” And retail analysts expect them to keep buying through the fall.
Here’s where we stand on the economy, the prospects for improvements, and additional aid for the unemployed.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission sent the notice on Aug. 20, four days after the party that authorities said drew more than 100 people — far more than the state’s 25-person limit on indoor gatherings.
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A state judge denies an attempt by landlords to halt the moratorium, but a federal judge steers both sides toward a compromise.
Interim CEO Rose Di Pietro says "no decisions have been made," but a merger is among possibilities that will likely be considered.
The casino says it's put measures in place to make sure COVID-19 safety rules aren't violated again.
Officials say Wi-Fi will be boosted outside nine branches, too, in an effort to increase online access.
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Despite the region’s reputation for poverty and political instability, African countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana have thousands of capable software developers.
Chief executive Colin Angle said this is the first time the company has done a software launch of this scale. "It is about driving loyalty," he said.
It is an enduring political question amid a pandemic recession, double-digit unemployment and a recovery that appears to be slowing: Why does President Donald Trump continue to get higher marks on economic issues in polls than his predecessors Barack Obama, George W. Bush and George H.W.
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A handful of investors have, collectively, made hundreds of millions of dollars on trades this year that bet on the demise of malls.
Stocks plowed higher on Wall Street Monday, as hopes for a COVID-19 treatment and vaccine had investors looking ahead to the possibility of a healthier economy that has shed the virus.
Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom — the video-conferencing service that powers everything from distance learning to business meetings to casual, socially distant get-togethers — abruptly went dead.
SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok sued the U.S. government Monday, accusing the Trump administration of depriving it of due process when President Donald Trump used his emergency economic powers to issue an executive order that will block the app from operating in the country.
The Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition says only 4 percent of volunteers for the late-stage trial of Moderna's vaccine candidate are Black. Brigham and Women's Hospital says the figure is 12 percent.
The state’s request for money to pay the added benefit was granted last week by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Two city councilors are calling for a hearing to streamline Boston’s arcane zoning code for some kinds of affordable housing developments.
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Marilyn Mathieu noticed the Cambria Hotel had charged an extra $250 on her credit card. A manager said it was for smoking in their room, but she believes her family had been racially profiled based on the hotel’s swift determination of their guilt and unwillingness to consider their denials.
Demand for the mindfulness and meditation app has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic and its ripple effects began taking a brutal toll on mental health. Downloads have jumped dramatically in recent months, and Headspace has been flooded with requests from companies looking to buoy their staffs’ well-being while they work from home.
A 63-day strike at Bath Iron Works came to an end Sunday with shipbuilders voting to return to their jobs producing warships for the United States Navy.
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Thousands of pages of e-mails provided to the Associated Press under open-records laws show that governors across the country were inundated with COVD-19 reopening advice from a wide range of industries — from campgrounds in New Hampshire to car washes in Washington.
As GE tumbles, board eases Culp’s path to a $230 million payday
The S&P 500 ticked higher to close at another all-time high Friday, powered by strength for technology stocks and a couple reports on the U.S. economy that were better than expected.
Kymera is working on treatments for immune-inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and eczema.
Disgraced Hollywood film mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is asking a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to allow him to pursue arbitration in New York over what he claims is his wrongful termination from the company he co-founded.
Amazon’s retail chief, viewed as a possible CEO, will instead retire next year
Serious mortgage delinquencies soared to a 10-year high last month
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Duck Creek Technologies, which went public on Aug. 14, has the potential to be a flagship company for Boston’s burgeoning "insurtech" scene.
Massachusetts remained almost 6 percentage points above the national average of 10.2 percent last month.
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An appeals court has allowed ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft to continue treating their drivers as independent contractors in California while an appeal works its way through the court.
The change, announced Thursday, means nine airports will lose their only airline service.
A Connecticut-based electricity supplier has agreed to pay up to $10 million to settle allegations by Attorney General Maura Healey that the company used deceptive sales tactics to persuade consumers to sign up for overpriced electric plans.
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But so far, the new owner has been silent about its plans for the site.
In Massachusetts, new claims rose to 16,700 from 14,700 a week earlier.
Kamala Harris made history on Wednesday as the first Black woman and first Asian American to accept a spot on a major party’s presidential ticket, a moment intended to galvanize Democratic voters heading into the fall campaign against President Trump.
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It is the first US public company to reach that milestone.
The amount was about $1 million more than what PBS originally argued in court that Smiley owed after it was forced to cancel his contract upon learning six female employees had accused him of sexual harassment.
Kirsner’s Innovation Economy column appears in the Boston Sunday Globe, and he contributes to the Globe’s Beta Boston website.
