Further to my point here: https://www.bisnow.com/news/boston/multifamily/office-to-housing-proposals-flood-downtown-boston-but-financing-woes-leave-most-projects-stalled
Another notable data point from the article: "In Boston, developers have proposed converting some 2 million square feet of underutilized office space into residential projects. Less than 20 percent of the 2,331 units proposed for conversion have been built or are under construction."
Goes to...
Panera is taking 102K sq ft at 133 Boston Post Road in Weston
https://www.bisnow.com/news/boston/deal-sheet/panera-signs-102k-sf-lease-to-move-hq-to-weston-the-boston-deal-sheet
“WS Development doesn’t typically criticize other firms’ projects. But on April 6, WS vice chairman Richard Marks wrote to Brookline’s economic development director, Meredith Mooney, complaining about the limited parking planned for a site across Route 9 from his company’s The Street shopping...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/25/business/dorchester-development-real-estate-slowdown/
"Amid a broad development slowdown, construction has yet to begin at Dorchester Bay City. And now, its developers are dramatically scaling back their plans, putting a big chunk of the site back up for...
https://patch.com/massachusetts/woburn/woburns-makeover-plan-former-industrial-site-goes-new-direction-report
“The new plan could include the addition of more than 500 homes and requires a zoning amendment. Woburn’s city council president, Robert Toro, said he wouldn’t support that change.”...
They are residential towers with a tiny fraction of the complex that is office. Now they are going to convert that tiny fraction of office into residential.