General Electric just planted its flag at the original Necco factory in Fort Point. But big changes also could be coming to where Necco currently cranks out its candies, seven miles away in Revere. Development firms Atlantic Management and VMD Companies teamed up to buy the 50-acre site for $54.6 million a few weeks ago, […]
Developers take steps to reinvent suburban office parks
When the exodus to the suburbs got underway more than a half-century ago, employers followed, and the office park was born. But today, as younger workers return to the city, and employers again follow the labor, these isolated campuses of low-slung buildings, parking lots, and company cafeterias face challenges, from new competitors to aging facilities to high vacancy rates.