Jun 27, 2024 Owners Beware: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Underscores Strict Adherence to Prompt Payment Act By Peter Bilowz Rhian Cull Molly Quinn On Monday, June 17, 2024, the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) issued its decision in Business Interiors Floor Covering Business Trust v....
Mar 05, 2024 Will apartments solve housing scarcity? By David Linhart Governor Maura Healey has called out housing as Massachusetts’ biggest challenge—both increasing the pace of production and lowering the...
Jan 22, 2024 Newly Launched NYC Office Conversion Accelerator Program By Frank Ditta George Evans Hara Perkins Andrew Shaw +1 more... Show less In August 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of City Planning announced three major initiatives to...
Jan 19, 2024 Restraining retainage: Drilling down into New York’s 5% retainage law and its impact on your project By Frank Ditta Jaclyn Grodin Alexander Berger In the world of construction, retainage is a portion of funds withheld from payments made to contractors and subcontractors until work is...
May 04, 2022 Contractors Are All But Guaranteed To Balk At GMPs. Here’s What Project Owners Can Do About It By Rhian Cull Supply chain delays and rising material costs have contractors looking for ways to limit their risk, including refusing to commit to true...
Nov 29, 2021 The construction industry positions itself for post-pandemic growth By Goulston & Storrs New York City’s construction industry is starting to come back from the pandemic, and residential construction is driving much of the...
Jan 06, 2020 City of Boston Tackles Climate Change in Local Wetlands Ordinance By Matthew Kiefer In December, the Boston City Council adopted, and Mayor Walsh signed, an Ordinance Protecting Local Wetlands and Promoting Climate Change...
Apr 10, 2018 How Should Boston Fund its Future? By Matthew Kiefer Matthew Kiefer and Sam Tyler wrote about what the City of Boston can do to help its infrastructure moving forward in the Boston Globe....
Oct 02, 2017 20/20 Hindsight: Did our investments position us for a bright future? By Matthew Kiefer Architecture Boston Boston is changing: new neighborhoods, new residents, a new innovation economy, and now a new comprehensive plan. In...
Mar 01, 2017 It's the end of urban planning as we know it (and we feel fine) By Matthew Kiefer Matthew Kiefer writes about the future of urban planning in the Boston Globe. Click here to read the article.