1/16/2025 4:20:47 PM Appeals Court Shines Light on Solar Panel Protections By Joel Antwi Sydney Cramer Mariana Korsunsky Kevin O'Flaherty Gary Ronan +2 more... Show less Kearsarge Walpole LLC v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Walpole involved a dispute over where a large-scale solar array could be placed in...
1/16/2025 4:08:04 PM Beachfront Boundaries: Regulatory Takings Clarified By Joel Antwi Mariana Korsunsky Kevin O'Flaherty Gary Ronan Sydney Cramer +2 more... Show less Jones v. Town of Harwich involved a dispute over the application of the Wetland Protection Bylaw and Regulations in Harwich,...
1/15/2025 8:30:54 PM NYC Development Projects To Watch In 2025 By Brian M. Cohen Despite hurdles like elevated interest rates and office vacancies, real estate development in New York City in 2025 is propelled by...
1/2/2025 2:05:00 PM Timeline Considerations For Boston's New RE Review Process By David Linhart Attorney David Linhart dives into Boston’s evolving large project review process and its implications for developers, communities, and...
9/25/2024 10:05:32 PM Different Sectors, Same Page By George Evans I recently attended the IMN Distressed CRE Forum in New York, alongside my colleagues Brian Cohen, Zev Gewurz and Doug Rosner. It was...
9/16/2024 8:58:53 PM Navigating Lender Liability Complexities & Minimizing Risk By Zev Gewurz Jaclyn Grodin Charles Jacob III Douglas Rosner Adam Safer Eric Seltzer +3 more... Show less As lenders and borrowers try to get creative in working through ongoing distress in the real estate market, especially in certain asset...
8/15/2024 5:21:43 PM City of Boston Office to Residential Conversion Program Extension By David Ingraham Matthew Kiefer David Linhart In June, Mayor Wu announced the extension of the City of Boston's Office to Residential Conversion Program with $15 million in additional...
6/12/2024 1:59:36 PM Commercial Real Estate Note Purchases: Lender’s Loss, Investor’s Gain By Timothy John Carter Frank Ditta Zev Gewurz Jonathan Stein +1 more... Show less In this ongoing article series with Citybiz, members of the Goulston & Storrs Commercial Real Estate Workouts Group keep you up to date...
2/1/2024 2:43:31 PM Lenders Seek to Avoid Creditor Violence By Timothy John Carter Pamela MacKenzie James Wallack As U.S. businesses face ongoing economic headwinds, commercial lenders are acting more aggressively to reduce their exposure to rogue...
1/22/2024 5:06:59 PM 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...
1/18/2024 6:33:31 PM Thriving in 2024: Brick-and-mortar retail is back in fashion By Brendan Smith Jennifer Jones Karen O'Malley Lawrence Ferris +1 more... Show less As keen observers are already aware, reports of the “death of brick-and-mortar” retail have been greatly exaggerated. Neither the...
12/22/2023 5:29:50 PM Apartments in the suburbs By David Linhart Amy Dain’s November 2023 report on exclusionary zoning in Boston’s suburbs details how White neighborhoods either prohibited apartment...
7/28/2023 5:46:00 PM After EPA Rule Changes, Which ASTM Phase I ESA Standard Should You Use? By Henry Edward Abelson Justin Rheingold On November 1, 2021, ASTM International released its revised standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments. On March 14, 2022, the...
7/10/2023 7:01:00 PM Inside the Room: How Handing Back the Keys On Commercial Real Estate Works By Brian M. Cohen “As a borrower, you must do the groundwork to understand the nonrecourse carve-outs of your loan and what your personal guarantee...
3/22/2023 8:00:00 PM Biden’s FY2024 Budget: Key Real Estate Tax Proposals By Gerret Baur Martha Nahill Frahm Abe Leitner On March 9, 2023, President Biden released his FY2024 budget (the “FY2024 Budget”), and the U.S. Treasury released the so-called “Green...
1/6/2023 8:56:00 PM Representation & Warranties Insurance in Commercial Real Estate Transactions By Gregory Kaden Zev Gewurz Insurance is coming to real estate in new and important ways. Investors in real estate have long had a variety of structuring options...