CAMBRIDGE, MA-Biogen Inc. renews its lease on 56,136 sf of space at 4 Cambridge Center. The deal represents only a portion of the eight floors the biotech company occupies in this 198,295-sf, 12-story building in Kendall Square.

BILLERICA, MA- Millipore Corp. is moving its corporate headquarters to 100,000 sf at 290 Concord Rd. The biotech company will use its old location in Bedford, MA to house two of its divisions and to expand its research and development labs.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-The city is slowly becoming a tenant's market with rents that will continue to drop slightly and vacancy rates remaining at about 20%. As funding for biotech start-ups becomes scarcer that market could become more vulnerable as well.

MARLBOROUGH, MA-Yet another affordable-housing project proposal that would bypass local zoning laws here. But this one, with 306 units, would get the town over its 10% affordable-housing hurdle, making it less vulnerable to other projects.

BOSTON-Metropolitan Meats opens in the New Boston Food Market, a 28-acre industrial site near the Southeast Expressway in South Boston. The move is part of the city's Back Streets Initiative, which supports industrial companies' efforts to remain in the city.

BOSTON-In what the Boston Redevelopment Authority terms a "friendly" action, the city agency is taking over the seven-story Modern Theater. The seizure is part of an effort by City Mayor Thomas Menino to revitalize the three decaying theaters on Lower Washington Street.

BOSTON-The largest rental project to be developed in downtown Boston in 20 years will finally get built now that the city and the developers have reached an agreement with the residents of the Chinatown community. The 439-unit Liberty Place project will have 66 affordable units.

BOSTON-63,080 acres of land in 11 towns in Greater Boston are going to be designated as Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, according to the state's secretary of environmental affairs, Robert Durand. The designation means developers of these parcels will be subject to higher environmental standards.