0 Boston Co-working Spaces Offer Quality, Affordability, and Location to Hub Start-ups

Workers share ideas and brainstorm in shared space

Credit: The Boston Globe

The greater Boston area is a mecca for new and innovative ideas that blossom into companies. As decision makers face the multitude of choices from hosting platforms to new staff members, one decision is the culture they would like to offer. Co-working sits at the forefront of that decision.

Some companies with limited staff and resources, cherish the opportunity to be a part of a larger culture, and co-working is the right fit, while other companies prefer to create their own. Something to think about as you head from the basement to the boardroom with your new idea.

Boston.com has taken the time to explore some of the top Boston co-working spaces.

 

0 Demolition to Begin on Filene’s in Downtown Crossing

Demoliton on old Filenes building in downtown crossing

Credit: City of Boston (via BBJ)

More changes this week for Filene’s at Downtown Crossing. Parts of the historic structure will be incorporated into a new community park.

“On Saturday and Sunday, July 20 and 21st, workers from Suffolk Construction will demolish the remainder of the 1905 Jones, McDuffee and Stratton Co. building at the corner of Franklin and Hawley streets that housed Filene’s for many years…The new $615 million Millennium Tower will include 600 condominiums and apartments, up to 218,000 square feet of office space and 231,000 square feet of retail.”

Additional details are provided in the BBJ’s full article

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0 Roche Bros. Negotiating Lease in Millennium Tower

Supermarket in Downtown Crossing, Boston

Photo Credit: Boston Herald

The chatter around the grocer for downtown Boston Heats up; seems like Roche Brothers is pushing for Millennium Tower and Wegmans is passing. The current growth of the Mid Town market seems to play very well for Roche Brothers. The migration of office tenants priced out or East Cambridge and the Seaport along with new residential units will add to the demand of the live/work individual looking stock up on milk and bread during the next Nor’easter.

The Boston Herald reported that “Roche Bros. chain of suburban supermarkets is hammering out plans for its first urban market at Millennium Partners’ $630 million Millennium Tower project, which includes redevelopment of the adjacent Filene’s building.”

For more information on the planned supermarket location at Millennium towers, jump over to the full article on the Boston Herald’s website.

 

0 Boston Startups Filling Downtown Crossing Office Space

Office building at 99 Summer St. in BostonWhat does the Red, Green and Orange Line have in common?  The benefit of transporting the influx of employees to the newly leased up space in Downtown crossing to all the startups priced out of the Seaport and Cambridge.

W. Marc Bernsau of the Boston Business Journal reports, “the available office space in Downtown Crossing plunged by nearly 40 percent in two years as a wave of startups priced out of Kendall Square and the Seaport arrived in search of real estate bargains.”

Additional details on the startups moving into downtown crossing and its associated office space are available on the Boston Business Journal’s website.

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