With office vacancies approaching record lows, one Boston developer is taking a page from the multifamily playbook to make its downtown project stand out. Read More
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10.29.20
Demand for lab space shows no signs of slowing down in Greater Boston
12.19.19
Here’s a look at the Boston Flower Exchange as it comes down
8.15.18
Flowers out, tech in: Massive Kendall Square-like development in South End nears approval
Exchange South End, a $1 billion, 1.6-million-square-foot complex, would replace what was the Boston Flower Exchange. Most of the exchange’s vendors have moved to Chelsea. Read More
7.16.18
Landlords, Tenants Sweet on Spec Suites
Boston – Spec suites have not always had the allure or intrigue they do today. Traditionally aimed exclusively at startups and small companies, spec suites were small, usually ranging from 3,000- to 5,000 sf, and were considered ideal for temporary occupancy. Read More
2.8.18
The Abbey Group Adopts Multifamily Strategy In Hyatt Partnership For Office Amenities
11.14.17
Real Estate Developers Eye Boston’s South End for Life Science Campus
A new life sciences development that could provide office and laboratory space for multiple companies is taking off the Boston’s South End neighborhood as an alternative Cambridge’s pricey Kendall Square. The Abbey Group is developing 5.6 acres in what the company describes as the ideal life sciences complex for the greater Boston area. The new space is located just a few miles from Kendall Square that has become the hub of the Boston biotech industry. Read More
3.27.17
Exchange South End Unveils Initial Ideas at South End Forum, Takes Show to the Road
Looking to pre-empt the City’s official process with their own “feeling out” of the South End community, principals of the Abbey Group appeared at the South End Forum on Weds., March 15, and then at the Blackstone/Franklin Square Neighborhood Association on Tuesday, March 21, to kick off a two-month tour of the neighborhood meetings aimed at getting feedback on their initial ideas before officially filing with the City later this spring. Read More
3.17.17
New owners of Flower Exchange unveil their plan for the site
The new owners of the former Boston Flower Exchange in the South End unveiled their plan for the site Wednesday night, envisioning four lab and office buildings, with thousands of tech and life sciences jobs, built around a 1-acre public plaza lined with restaurants, retail, and a new cultural center. Read More
2.2.17
Boston Flower Exchange vendors get 1-month extension at South End location
New owners have given vendors at the Boston Flower Exchange an added month to remain at its South End location. Read More
12.20.16
Massive office complex could blossom at Flower Exchange site
The buyers of the Boston Flower Exchange property Thursday unveiled plans to turn the 5.6-acre warehouse facility on Albany Street in the South End into a tech office campus they hope could rival Kendall Square in Cambridge, employing as many as 5,000 to 10,000 people. Read More
9.24.15
Apartment building has rooms with a view — of Fenway Park
The view of Fenway Park from 20th floor high Sky Deck at The Viridian. Read More
1.29.15
Safari Books Online, O’Reilly Media join tech companies at Lafayette City Center
The Abbey Group has signed another tech company lease at Lafayette City Center, a 615,000-square-foot office and retail complex in downtown Boston that has rapidly become a new hub for technology companies. Read More
9.17.14
Sonos is latest tech firm to head to Downtown Crossing
The real estate story of Sonos Inc., a maker of slick, wireless hi-fi systems, starts with the kind of setting you might expect — four employees toiling in a cramped office in Cambridge’s tech-dominated Kendall Square. Read More
4.27.14
Seven Things you should know about Robert Epstein
Robert Epstein is chief executive of The Abbey Group, a real estate investment firm that has developed some of Boston’s most significant buildings. The company’s projects include the 45 Province condominium tower downtown and The Viridian, a 322-unit apartment complex under construction near Fenway Park. In his spare time, he’s a managing partner of the Boston Celtics. Globe reporter Casey Ross recently talked with Epstein about his background and business philosophy. Read More
11.23.13
45 Province Redefines Splendid Lifestyle
All of the renewed activity in Downtown Crossing — the new restaurants, shops and residences, and even a supermarket in the not-too-distantfuture — has made Midtown the most exclusive neighborhood in Boston based on the selling price of condominiums there. Read More
11.8.13
Downtown Crossing Becoming Exclusive Address
The luxury condos at 45 Province St. in Downtown Crossing went on the market in 2009 at the height of the last recession, a monumental case of bad timing that seemed to doom the $120 million residential tower as another folly of the real estate bubble. Read More
8.3.12
Abbey’s Fenway Magic Moves Downtown
Two of New England’s premier hotels—located mere blocks from each other in the Hub’s Back Bay—are about to stoke the hospitality sales market in being offered by Eastdil Secured. Upwards of
$450 million could be involved in the separate transactions, according to one market expert who explains the split would be about two-thirds to the Park Plaza and $150 million for the Mandarin Oriental on Boylston Street at the Prudential Center. Read More
2.11.11
Abbey Group sells Landmark Center to JP Morgan and Samuels & Associates for $530.5 Million
According to The Abbey Group, they have sold Landmark Center, an office and retail complex near Fenway Park, for $530.5 million. The buyer is a joint venture between JP Morgan Investment Management Inc. and Samuels & Associates. Read More
9.23.02
It’s a Landmark Achievement for The Abbey Group
After watching others attempt and fail to re-develop the Landmark Center, the former Sears building in the Fenway neighborhood, The Abbey Group succeeded, then exceeded its own expectations for leasing out the 867,000 square feet of office and retail space. Read More
