0 Boston Software Startup picks Fenway over Kendall Square

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Wil Catlin

Office space at 1330 Boylston Street in Boston

The office market for growing companies appears to be expanding beyond traditional office markets such as Back Bay, Seaport and Financial District to Fenway. This is due to Samuels & Associates offering what companies want and need; cool creative space without a long term lease. New formed and funded companies are in most cases unable to make long term lease commitments, Hatch Fenway is designed to bright that gap between shared space and direct space.

One example of this is documented on the BBJ:

Software startup Appcues has moved from Cambridge to a 2,100-square-foot office at Hatch Fenway, the startup space created by real estate developerSamuels & Associates this summer…the company started out in WeWork co-working space before moving to 300 square feet at 25 First St. in Cambridge. Late last year, the company raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Atlas Ventures and other investors…The company needed space to grow and had looked all over: Downtown Crossing, the Leather District, Kendall Square, Lechmere, Cambridge, the Seaport’s Innovation District. But Kendall Square has become “so office park-y,” Kim said.

“We like getting out of the office and going to interesting places,” he said. “The Fenway just has such a diverse array of restaurants, a movie theater right downstairs. Everything is convenient.”

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0 Facebook’s Cambridge Office Space Hits One-Year Mark

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Wil Catlin

Credit: Facebook

So you have just been funded and you are in the hunt for the perfect office to grow the team. Have a look at the new digs for Facebook in Cambridge for some ideas.

Ryan Mack, the site lead for Facebook Boston notes in a blog post, “we look forward to hosting some of these events at the Facebook office, where we have a newly expanded space to support our growing engineering team. In the coming year we’ll continue hiring experienced engineers for our Boston team to work on data infrastructure, core systems services, location, and language runtimes, as well as new grads.”

You can also check out photos of Facebook’s office space in Cambridge on its site.

0 Facebook Interested in Cambridge Office Space

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Wil Catlin

Is Facebook returning to its roots? The Kendall Square office market is vacancy rates at a record low with Class A rents in the $50’s per square foot.

An exclusive report on the Boston Business Journal quotes a source with knowledge of Facebook’s growing interest in Cambridge office space, “they want to have a larger footprint here…they want to be near MIT to recruit staff and they want to be next to similar firms.”

The article also notes that Facebook currently has four employees in a temporary office space at 711 Atlantic Ave. in Boston’s Financial District.

For additional details on Facebook’s search for Cambridge office space, click through to the BBJ exclusive.

0 Amazon Leases Office Space in Kendall Square

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Wil Catlin

Amazon is on the move in Massachusetts; first, they agreed to collect Massachusetts sales tax from local customers which they have resisted for years, then they expanded their footprint in East Cambridge/Kendall Square.

An article in the Boston Globe notes, “the online retailing giant is leasing 105,000 square feet on several floors at 101 Main St., at the foot of the Longfellow Bridge, according to a person briefed on the deal. The company has already posted more than 30 local openings for software engineers and other tech professionals, another clear signal Amazon is speeding up efforts to establish a large presence in Massachusetts’ technology community.”

Continue reading the Boston Globe’s article on Amazon’s recent lease, or view available office space in Kendall Square.