If you are a skateboarder, BMX biker, or an in-line skater visiting Boston or living within The Greater Boston Area, then this news is something that has indeed been a long time coming. Since 2001 there have been plans to construct a 40,000 square foot skatepark to go beneath the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill …
New Charles River Skatepark by 2013?
If you are a skateboarder, BMX biker, or an in-line skater visiting Boston or living within The Greater Boston Area, then this news is something that has indeed been a long time coming. Since 2001 there have been plans to construct a 40,000 square foot skatepark to go beneath the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill …
Boston’s Wharf District: Can It Happen as a Neighborhood?
What is the Wharf District of Boston? Is it its own neighborhood, one that will remain as an after thought to Downtown and the Financial District, or something else? Here are some results from a public online poll: 12.8% insist that the Wharf District is already a neighborhood 59% feel the Financial District and Downtown …
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Boston’s 12 Most Visited Tourist Attractions (according to Foursquare)
If you could imagine the twelve most visited tourist attractions in Boston, what would you guess made the list? There are many ways of measuring this, of course, however the rankings determined by the social media application known as Foursquare gave us some great results. Foursquare is a system that allows individuals to check-in at …
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Sotheby’s International Realty Expands to San Miguel, Mexico
As we discussed in an earlier post, the Sothebys International Realty brand extended its increasing global reach by adding Milan Sothebys International Realty to its roughly 12,000 associates within 590 offices and 44 countries and territorys worldwide. Sothebys is always looking to expand their influence of excellence worldwide whenever the right opportunity comes about. This …
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113th Anniversary for Animal Rescue League of Boston
The Animal Rescue League of Boston recently celebrated their one hundred and thirteenth year anniversary as of February 7th, 2012! The ARL has been helping animals since 1899 under their original phrase used by founder Anna Harris Smith, Kindness Uplifts the World; and from seeing how far the organization has come, we can say it …
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Boston Charities: Pine Street Inn, hopeFound Merger
Fascinatingly enough, many nonprofits nationwide do not often merge. However, two Boston based charities have gone outside of the norm. With over seventy years of experience combined, Pine Street Inn and hopeFound, the two main Boston-based organizations fighting against homelessness, have joined forces. This combination of minds and talents does not, surprisingly enough, mean there …
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Real Estate News: Low Housing Inventory Shows Pent Up Buyer Demand
We are seeing it in the Boston and Greater Boston neighborhoods. Buyers are coming in droves to open houses to tour the low number of properties that are currently on the market.In some cases there have been 20, 30 or more parties reported having come through a Sunday open house, even with buyers waiting at …
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Boston Conservatory Purchases $5.1 Million Fenway-Facing Building
How thrilling would it be to be one of the 730 lucky students at the Boston Conservatory studying music less than a block away from historic Fenway Park! This idea may soon come to fruition as on January 17th of 2012, the Conservatory announced its $5.1 million purchase of a one-story warehouse located at 132 …
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Boston Real Estate: Boston Among Top Cities for Attracting Commercial Investment
Half of all of the commercial real estate investment worldwide occurs in just 30 cities? A presentation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland from a study enacted by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) is where these results came from. At this annual event, JLL proved how of these top 30 cities, 9 came from …
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