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By adamg - 5/5/11 - 11:38 am

The Boston Business Journal reports that Vertex Pharmaceuticals has signed a 15-year lease for 1.1 million square feet of space in the Innovation District.

By adamg - 4/5/11 - 4:45 pm

Interesting job posting from NPR says it's just set up a "Digital Services team located in Boston's Innovation District" to further bring John Boehner's favorite public radio network into the digital age.

By adamg - 3/11/11 - 10:41 am

My Life List, which lets people post lists of things they want to accomplish, then mark them off, was named winner of the city's Innovation District: Welcome Home Challenge, the mayor's office reports.

By adamg - 2/15/11 - 5:53 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports a five-company clean-technology "minicubator" will be moving from Cambridge to the South Boston waterfront.

The news is not necessarily bad for Cambridge, though: All of the five companies are "pre-revenue" and the reason they're being forced out of Boston's Left Bank is because their landlord is tearing down their building for a new biotech facility.

By adamg - 2/14/11 - 6:52 am

The Herald reports Cambridge is developing its own benefits package to try to keep Vertex in Cambridge, rather than letting it flee to South Boston - such as municipal "financing incentives."

By adamg - 2/4/11 - 11:28 am

The Boston Business Journal reports Vertex might just stay in Cambridge, either because the feds don't approve the drug on which its expansion hinges or because they accept a competing offer from Cambridge to move into new space on Binney Street.

By adamg - 12/23/10 - 3:09 pm

The Fort Point Channel Blog details the proposed 184-unit building at 319 A St. Rear.

By adamg - 12/14/10 - 7:01 pm

Karen Cord Taylor finds much to like about the SimCity-like development happening on the 1,000 acres between the Reserved and Fort Point channels, but worries about what isn't being defined in the plans:

So far no plans call for schools, a community health center, post offices, a Y, baseball fields, a soccer pitch, public tennis courts, a skating rink or libraries - public realms as important as green spaces where you sit and enjoy fountains. ...

By adamg - 8/9/10 - 2:11 pm

Really? Really. The Boston Business Journal reports one Waterfront landlord had to turn to an expensive wireless service for its high-tech tenants. Verizon refused to wire the area, which is what you'd expect, given its never-ending feud with Innovation District backer Tom Menino. Comcast says it will get around to it one of these days.

By adamg - 6/29/10 - 3:42 pm

BostInnovation reports on a city-sponsored session today that focused on how to build housing in the city's "Innovation District" on the South Boston waterfront that would attract researchers and scientists to live where they work:

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