Rob Grady Real Estate

04/14/2022

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2572328219875/boston-lures-workers-back-downtown-with-djs-food-trucks-and-free-dunks?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MTU3OTI1OTQ3LTE2NDk5NDU0MjEzMDQ=&pd=0AgdkhAj&hl=en_US

If you hand out free coffee, will they come? Boston thinks it's worth a try. On Wednesday, the city offered free Dunkin' coffee — both hot and iced — as part of a new effort to lure remote workers and visitors back downtown. The city is working...

03/17/2022

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2543550262157/city-to-start-planning-for-blue-hill-ave-redesign?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MTU3OTI1OTQ3LTE2NDc1NTIxMDQ0NjA=&pd=0AgdkhAj&hl=en_US

Yawu Miller is the Banner’s senior editor. VIEW BIO. City officials are planning a series of meetings for the reconstruction of a three-mile stretch of Blue Hill Avenue that promises profound changes to the way people travel on the thoroughfare. After a year-long planning process, months of constr...

03/09/2022

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2535929390593/kohl-s-says-it-s-no-longer-a-department-store?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MTU3OTI1OTQ3LTE2NDY4MzAwODAxMjA=&pd=0AgdkhAj&hl=en_US

New York (CNN Business) — Kohl's is under intense pressure from Wall Street raiders and up against stiff competition from Amazon, Target and others. Now it's hoping that overhauling its brand image can beat back those threats. Kohl's (KSS) announced plans Monday to add Sephora mini-shops to roughl...

03/07/2022

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/02/business/green-line-is-coming-somerville-big-changes-are-coming-too/

Construction is underway on 1.3 million square feet of lab and residential property along the long-delayed extension to Somerville.

01/31/2022

https://www.businessinsider.com/lowes-opens-petco-shops-in-stores-to-woo-nesting-millennials-2022-1

Petco pet products, grooming, and vaccination services will soon be offered in certain Lowe's stores.

01/11/2022

https://www.retaildive.com/news/how-macys-set-out-to-conquer-the-department-store-business-and-lost/608277/

At the dawn of the 21st century, the 160-year-old retailer expanded amid the sector's steep decline. What now?

12/10/2021

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/10/business/downtown-full-delivery-warehouses-dark-stores-are-coming-boston/

A wave of quick-delivery startups are moving into empty storefronts in downtown Boston, offering convenience but raising concerns about the vitality of city streets.

12/06/2021

https://www.chainstoreage.com/cgp-black-friday-sales-hit-record-349-billion-boosted-thanksgiving-closures

12/06/2021

https://www.axios.com/stores-open-retailer-ecommerce-8ed632db-a157-4cf2-96a1-f94c520e63b6.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=email

"Stores have become integral in fulfilling e-commerce orders," the Wall Street Journal writes.

11/23/2021

https://www.wcvb.com/article/amazon-to-open-first-grocery-stores-in-massachusetts-new-england/38321098

Amazon, the online e-commerce behemoth that delivers millions of packages to New England homes each day, is set open its first grocery stores to Massachusetts.

10/27/2021

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/27/business/boston-officials-make-another-go-redeveloping-star-crossed-roxbury-parcel/

BPDA launches new search for a developer for star-crossed eight-acre site along Tremont Street in Roxbury.

10/15/2021

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/15/business/2-billion-mgh-expansion-wins-green-light-bpda/

More than 4 million square feet of development won approval by BPDA Thursday, at the board's final meeting of the current mayoral administration.