Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial celebrations.

The nominations are being announced by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman from the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties secured a lease expansion for a planned innovation center at the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
Roche Genentech will triple its size at the ERC from 30K SF to 100K SF for the innovation center, according to a press release. The company plans to begin a phased move-in starting in mid-2026.
The pharmaceutical company first announced plans to move onto the campus in March and occupy 30K SF at Tishman’s two-building life sciences complex at One Milestone St. In its March release, Genentech said it ultimately hoped to hire up to 500 employees for the location.
Its planned innovation center within the lab building will serve as a hub for its…

John Wolf spent 18 years buying large office buildings as an executive at real estate investment giant Westbrook Partners.
But since leaving Westbrook in 2024, he has been buying up distressed assets and has even foreclosed on two buildings owned by his old firm — exemplifying the shift taking place in D.C.’s troubled office market. Once a haven for institutions the world over, D.C. is now a playground for bargain hunters that don’t have investment committees to answer to.
“We have a clean slate,” Wolf, now the CEO of FarmViewVentures, told Bisnow last week. “I’ve got a new company. I don’t have the legacy…

California Forever signed a 40-year construction labor agreement covering nearly all major building activity in its proposed new city, which includes a shipyard and advanced manufacturing park. Approvals for the project are pending.

The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of dormancy following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdown.

Adem Bunkeddeko, a state comptroller candidate, wants to use some of New York’s $290 billion pension fund to buy a percentage of Madison Square Garden Sports.

The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.

As the justices weighed the consequences of allowing President Trump to fire a Federal Reserve official, the president reprised his pressure campaign on the central bank.

The F.C.C. said it planned to enforce long-dormant rules on appearances by political candidates on network talk shows.