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With an employee population that has doubled over the past six years, Christensen Group knew it was time to look for a bigger space. Its 2017 relocation from a leased space in Minnetonka to part ownership in a building near Anderson Lakes in Eden Prairie also provided an opportunity to flex some creative muscles in office design.

The insurance brokerage firm started by Gene Christensen in 1952 has been employee owned for more than a decade, but Gene is still well-represented with nine members of…

Needham-based Nauset Construction has broken ground on St. James Place, a long-delayed 46-unit condominium complex in Cambridge’s Porter Square neighborhood.

Acorn Holdings LLC is developing the project at 2013 Massachusetts Ave., a lot adjacent to St. James’s Episcopal Church that houses an out-of-use car wash. The project will also feature 2,000 square feet of retail and an 11,400-square-foot parish hall that will house classrooms for children’s programs, a library, a neighborhood food…

More changes are coming to Rainey Street, a once-sleepy area nestled between downtown and the east side. The latest plans call for a 30-story tower with hundreds of apartments and three floors of office space.

The developer is working on significant changes for the Sears building.

Hadley Home, a luxury goods retailer, will open a pop-up shop this weekend at 405 State St. in Greensboro.

The shop will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday in the 2,000-square-foot vacant retail space.

Hadley Home is partnering with Greensboro-based Alliance Commercial Property Management on the shop. Hadley, which seeks vacant retail spaces for pop-up shops, offers a unique collection of gifts, interior accents for the home and original fine art.

“It is deeply exciting to…

Emmanuel College has opened its largest-ever building, an 18-story residence hall that’s meant to allow more students to live on the school’s Fenway campus while relieving pressure on the city’s workforce housing.

Earlier this month, the private Catholic liberal-arts college officially opened the 267,500-square-foot, 692-bed residence hall, which was built on the site of a former dormitory building that had housed about a third as many students.

At $140 million, the cost of the project is…

Sales of new and existing homes fell 2 percent in August in the Albany region while prices rose, according to preliminary data from the Greater Capital Association of Realtors.

Overall inventory continued to decrease, though new home construction is up 6 percent year-to-date.

The data is based on sales through the Eastern New York Multiple Listing Service Inc.

The average sale price increased 3 percent, to $251,775.

The median sale price increased 4 percent, to $223,950.

The results for the…

University drops plans for additional education buildings on the campus and adds a residential component instead.

Though long anticipated, the approval of the project under a new housing streamlining law shifts the dynamics at play over what will rise in on the 50-acre Vallco site about a mile from Apple's campus.

Attila Szabo remembers visiting the Waterfront Vancouver for the first time a couple years ago with Barry Cain, president of Gramor Development. It was a gray and rainy Northwest day, and there wasn't much going on at the site.

“It was bare dirt,” said Szabo, president and operating partner for WildFin American Grill. “But as Barry explained the vision and you saw the pictures of what they had in mind, it wasn't very difficult to get on board.”

Fast-forward two years, and that bare dirt is now…