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Corporate and Transactional
Our lawyers have been involved for decades in some of the country’s most challenging real estate development projects. We are expert in the fields of entitlement, financing and construction. We have extensive experience in public-private partnerships and assist our clients in obtaining governmental inducements for their real estate projects. Selected transactions include:
- Representing the investors in and developers of Westwood Station, a 4,500,000 s.f. mixed use and “smart growth” development in suburban Boston. Our work includes land assembly, eminent domain, entitlements at the federal, state and local levels, tax increment financing, financing, equity investment, and leasing. We also represent these clients on the New England Business Center development in suburban Boston, a 600,000 s.f. planned office campus.
- Representing a public REIT in the development of a planned 1,500,000 s.f. life science lab campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The representation includes complex land assembly and entitlements, and we recently assisted the company in a successful “upzoning” to facilitate this development.
- Representing a joint venture of a public REIT and a local partner in development of 1,250,000 s.f. mixed use development in downtown Boston involving the preservation and rehabilitation of 400,000 s.f. of space in two historic structures, and the construction of a new tower adjoining these historic buildings. The space will include office, retail, hotel, residential and parking.
- Advising two of the world’s largest retail companies in site assembly, ground leases, acquisitions and entitlement throughout the New England states and the mid-Atlantic region. We have counseled these clients in the past decade on all of their legal issues associated with over 200 new store or expansion projects.
- Representing a public REIT in the redevelopment and sale of Russia Wharf—a Boston waterfront complex—into a 900,000 s.f. mixed-use office, hotel and residential facility.
- Assisting one of Boston’s largest universities in the expansion of its science and technology campus involving several phases of development totaling 1,500,000 s.f. of space on a 10 acre parcel, including a dormitory for over 800 students, an arena and a recreation center. We also represented the university in permitting for a second dormitory containing 817 beds, and in the development of a research center, administration facilities, field house and life sciences building.
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REAL ESTATE PRACTICE AREAS
Corporate and Transactional Practice Areas
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