WESTWOOD, MA – Essex Builders Corp. has secured a $3.6m contract from Just-A-Start Corporation to construct a 25,000SF mixed use development in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Architect of Record is VMY Vitols Architects, Inc. of Newton.

SALEM, MA – Bioengineering Group, a woman-owned earth science and engineering consulting and design firm headquartered in Salem, MA, announced that company President Wendi Goldsmith was named CEO and William (Bill) Hall was appointed President.

BOSTON, MA – GVA Thompson Hennessey & Partners is pleased to announce that James Griffin and Steve Lombardi have been promoted to Vice President and Assistant Vice President respectively.

BOSTON – Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, LLC (RBJ&P), a full-service commercial real estate advisory firm, announced that it completed a new 25,952 square foot lease transaction at 90 Central Street, Boxborough, Mass.  The tenant in the lease is Qualcomm Incorporated.

BOSTON— Newburg & Company, LLP, a full service CPA and financial management firm, has leased 11,520 square feet of first class office space at 890 Winter Street in Waltham, MA. Jones Lang LaSalle represented Newburg & Company.

BOSTON – Leeanne Rizzo has joined Colliers Meredith & Grew as an Assistant Vice President in the Suburban Brokerage group, focusing on brokerage activities in the Route 128 Mass Pike market.

BOSTON– Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), a leading real estate services and investment firm, announced that it represented Secured Realty and Capital Group Properties in the leasing of  29,158 square feet of space at Acton Woods, located at 100 Discovery Way in Acton. 

BOSTON – On Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12, 2010, CBT Architects will host Green Day, a two-day conference examining green building design and technology and the latest environmentally sustainable products.

BOSTON - Goedecke & Co., LLC, an independent commercial mortgage banking company, announced the appointment of Paul J. Barry, Jr. as Senior Vice President in the company’s Boston office.

WELLESLEY, MA--AGC of Massachusetts will host a series of Building Information Modeling or Virtual Design and Construction programs at the AGC Conference Center in Wellesley beginning March 26 and continuing through April 2010.

WALTHAM, Mass.—Joe Sciolla, Shawn McDonough, and Barry Dube of CresaPartners in Boston recently represented Lewtan Technologies, Inc. in a lease of 20,501 square feet at 400-2 Totten Pond Road in Waltham, where Lewtan has relocated its corporate headquarters.