BOSTON– The Commercial Brokers Association (CBA) today announced the finalists for the annual CBA Achievement Awards, which will recognize the Greater Boston area’s most significant real estate deals of 2015 and honor local industry professionals who have distinguished themselves among their peers.
At the awards gala on March 3, 2016 at the InterContinental Boston, Deal of the Year Awards will be presented for Office (Boston, Greater Cambridge and Suburban), Retail, Industrial, Life Science and Most Creative deals, as well as the Investment Sale of the Year. A new Community Impact Award has also been added this year, recognizing a transaction that had a significantly positive effect on the community. In addition, Special Recognition Awards will be presented to individuals for the Broker of the Year Leadership Award and Landlord, Rising Star, and Collaborating Professional of the Year. For the first time this year, nominations for Collaborating Professional and Landlord of the Year were open to be made by both CBA members and non-members; and non-members were eligible to be nominated for these categories.
Deal of the Year Finalists are:
Office – Boston
Acquia Inc. (lease)
BNY Mellon (lease)
Boston Medical Center (lease)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (lease)
Wells Fargo Bank (lease)
Office – Greater Cambridge
Hub Spot (lease)
IBM Watson (lease)
Sanofi/Genzyme (lease)
Office – Suburban
Alcatel Lucent, Westford, MA (lease)
Clarks Americas, Waltham, MA (lease)
EMD Millipore, Burlington, MA (lease)
Fresenius, Waltham, MA (lease)
PerkinElmer, Waltham, MA (lease)
Retail
Boston Wax Museum, Boston, MA (lease)
Primark, Boston, MA (lease)
The Harvard Collection, Cambridge, MA (sale)
Industrial
Martignetti’s Warehouse, Taunton, MA (sale)
Potpourri Group Fulfillment Center, Littleton, MA (lease)
The Boston Globe, Taunton, MA (sale)
Life Science
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA (lease)
Bluebird Bio, Cambridge, MA (lease)
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cambridge, MA (lease)
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA (lease)
Most Creative
Boston Landing, Brighton, MA (lease)
Liberty Bay Credit Union, Braintree, MA (lease)
OpenBiome, Somerville, MA (lease)
Qorvo, Chelmsford, MA (lease)
WiTricity, Watertown, MA (lease)
Investment Sale
131 Dartmouth, Boston, MA
222 Berkeley Street & 500 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
50 Post Office Square, Boston, MA
NorthPoint, Cambridge, MA
State Street @ One Channel Center, Boston, MA
Community Impact
Amazon Distribution Facility, Fall River, MA (sale)
Sale of North 40, Wellesley, MA (sale)
Stratus Technologies, Maynard, MA (lease)
Special Recognition Awards finalists are:
Broker of the Year Leadership Award
Bill Barrack – JLL
Gilbert Dailey – Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
Joe Flaherty – Colliers International
Debra Gould – Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
Cathy Minnerly – NAI Hunneman
Landlord of the Year
Bentall Kennedy
Intercontinental
Millennium Partners
Rockpoint
Samuels & Associates
The Gutierrez Company
Rising Star of the Year
Nicholas Amarante – CBRE|New England
Perry Beal – Transwestern RBJ
Blake McLaughlin – Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
Timothy Mulhall – Colliers International
Ovar Osvold – NAI Hunneman
Christopher Smith – Colliers International
Christopher Walsh – Cushman & Wakefield
Jordan Yarboro – JLL
Collaborating Professional of the Year
Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner P.C.
Dyer Brown
Elkus Manfredi
J. Calnan & Associates
Structure Tone
For more information and to register for the CBA Achievement Awards Gala, visit: www.gbreb.com/cba/2015AchievementAwards.
