0 50 Boston Startups Set to Make Waves in 2017

200 Clarendon Street Boston

Credit: Built in Boston

Reflecting back before looking forward, Built in Boston notes, “in 2016, Boston’s tech sector flourished, with startups maturing alongside the city’s legacy industries while a steady trickle of venture capital poured into industries like edtech, food-tech, fintech, digital media and healthtech…”

Click through to Built in Boston article to view its list of 50 start-ups in Boston to watch in 2017.

0 Amazon is Looking for Office Space in Boston

Amazon delivery boxes

Credit: Boston Globe

Amazon has 19 options to look at that have between 100,000 – 200,000 square feet of available space — now or in the near future — from East Cambridge to the Seaport and the Financial District to Back Bay.

As of today the availabilities would be in the following buildings:

  • 1 Beacon St
  • 200 Berkeley St
  • 222 Berkeley St
  • 399 Boylston St
  • 105 Broadway
  • 1 Center Plz
  • 200 Clarendon St
  • 1 Copley Pl
  • 2 Copley Pl
  • 26 Court St
  • 21-25 Drydock Ave
  • 101 Federal St
  • 110 High St
  • 125 High St
  • 100 Northern Ave
  • 53 State St
  • 253 Summer St
  • 645 Summer St

From the Boston Globe:

Amazon already has a large and growing presence in Kendall Square, but is eying downtown Boston in part because it has cheaper rents and more available space than in nearby Cambridge. It would also join a string of tech companies that have set up shop downtown, helping to reinvent the traditional business district as a hub for a new industry.

“Downtown Boston already has tremendous street cred in the tech world,” said Brendan Carroll, head of Encompass Real Estate Strategy, which tracks Boston’s office market. “But Amazon moving in would be a really big thing.”