Hey everybody here’s some red hot commercial real estate hotness to dry yourself to/peruse while waiting for the MBTA to get un-flooded.
So remember when the Waltham office trophy Bay Colony Corporate Center got foreclosed on because it was worth way less than the debt on it and the landlord got tired of putting money into [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Banker and Tradesman'
This Week in B&T: This Fan, it is Absolutely Covered in it
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Business
This Week in B&T: Dollar Borrowed, Dollar Earned
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Media
Perhaps you read this or this in the past couple days and wondered, oooo weee what up with that? Well, this week we tell you, here’s what.
What you knew was, this KS Partners is losing a whole bunch of square footage. And what we discovered is, it really doesn’t matter. Because the company bought and [...]
Milan Lucic Becomes a Boston Homeowner
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Business
The brawling B’s winger buys PJ Axelsson’s old North End condo.
Plus, Phil Kessel finally unloads his unit at the InterContinental.
Details here, in what I’m sure is the Black-and-Gold-iest day B&T has had in a while.
Let us celebrate by punching a Canadien in the face!
This Week in B&T: Happy V-Day, Vultures
February 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Business
This week’s issue of Banker & Tradesman, online now, is loaded with commercial real estate gore.
I write about an old-guard Boston office building teetering on the edge of foreclosure, and a pair of malls in western Mass. that aren’t too far behind.
Plus, a Q&A with broker (and Terrier hockey fan) Duncan Gratton of FHO Partners.
Even [...]
One Internet is Not Enough
January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Hoping that two will be, though.
Here’s me on the Twitter, and here’s B&T.
You’re welcome, world.
Astute Citizen Sees Through Secretive Leftist Agenda
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Today’s Globe has a fine story about a big brokerage expanding into retail work. It’s something that I’m following at my day job as well.
However, the Globe version has something that mine doesn’t. And that is: An insane-o comment from some guy who sees that this is not, at all, a story about commercial real [...]
Tags:Banker and Tradesman·Boston Globe·Demagoguery·Real Estate
Dear City Hall: Hello! Love, The Internet
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
A sharp-eyed U-Hub reader picks out this great line from a Michael Kineavy email about St. Paddy’s joke practice: “reminder…even though we are joking…these are foiable.” Hahaha let’s all joke about the law we hate. Also highly worthy of mockery is this email from Transportation honcho Tom Tinlin, who asks if somebody can “do a [...]
Tags:Banker and Tradesman·Death of Newspapers·Hahahahaha·Mayor Menino·Phoenix·Weekly Dig
Holes in the TARP
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Business
The Journal ran today with news (sub. req., or via Reuters) that $148 in bailout money hasn’t been able to restart lending at thirteen of the country’s biggest banks. And Bloomberg says banks without federal money are lending more than banks on the dole. Maybe that other $350 billion could loosen things up?
Alert Banker and [...]
