BOSTON– ABACUS Asset Management, a provider of comprehensive commercial real estate asset management services for owners of small to mid-sized office, industrial, retail and multifamily properties, has opened for business in Downtown Boston. The company, located at One International Place, will provide real estate asset management services throughout New England, with a focus on the Greater Boston market.

WELLESLEY, MA — At Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts' (AGC) Annual Meeting this month, a dynamic group of professionals took their seats on the board of this 77-year-old construction trade association.

BOSTON — Colliers International (Colliers) has recently represented 4 & 8 Technology Drive, in four leasing transactions totaling 132,469 square feet at the Westborough Technology Park in Westborough, Mass.

NEWTON, MA — Diversified Project Management, (DPM), a Newton, MA-based owner's representative consulting firm, announced that President & Founder, Bob Keeley was awarded with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Corporate MileStones Award at the organization's annual MileStones Gala on May 10th.

BOSTON — Fantini & Gorga announced the placement of $9,765,000 in first mortgage financing for an 88,400 SF retail property leased to Kohl's Department Stores and located in Stoughton, MA.

BOSTON — Jones Lang LaSalle's Capital Markets experts announced the firm has closed the sale of 625 Massachusetts Avenue, located in the Cambridge submarket of Boston, for the Samuels Property Group. L&B Realty Advisors, LLC purchased the mixed-use office retail property for $40.1 million.

EVERETT, MA — BOND (Bond Brothers) of Everett MA, has announced the hiring of Mark Luchini, P.E. as Director of MEP Services within the company's building division.

BOSTON — NAI Hunneman, a leading provider of commercial real estate services, announced it has brokered three lease transactions totaling 11,876 SF at 440/480 McClellan Highway (also known as Logan Cargo Port) in East Boston.

BOSTON — NAI Hunneman, a leading provider of commercial real estate services, announced it has brokered the sale of 162 Prince Street in Boston's North End neighborhood to 162 Prince LLC for $1.55 Million.

BOSTON—NAI Hunneman, a leading provider of commercial real estate services, announced that its Suburban Leasing Team has brokered a 9,235-square-foot office lease at 154 Middlesex Turnpike within Northwest Park, in Burlington, MA, on behalf of tenant Cymfony Inc.

BOSTON — Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, LLC (RBJ&P), a full-service commercial real estate advisory firm, announced that it represented Normandy Real Estate Partners in a 14,907 square foot lease with Weetabix Food Company in the Marlborough Technology Park in Marlborough, Mass.

BOSTON — Shorenstein Properties announced it has completed the purchase of the 461,046 square foot Seaport Center at 451 D Street in Boston's Seaport District, located in the CBD along the south waterfront.

BOSTON — Kimberly Steimle, Suffolk Construction's chief marketing officer and chief people officer, was recently honored as one of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce's 2012 recipients of the Ten Outstanding Young Leaders (TOYL) awards.

BOSTON – Boston-based The Davis Companies (TDC) announced that it has acquired Fresh Pond Technology Park in Cambridge, MA, and Bedford Business Park in Bedford, MA, adding to its portfolio of technology-related properties and positioning itself to continue to grow with the state’s technology and life sciences sectors.