Boston

NEWTON, MA-Marketplace Rewards takes 14,000 sf at the three-building, 500,000-sf business park, owned by Equity Office Properties.

MIDDLEBOROUGH, MA-The tiny suburban Boston office submarket of 2.8 million sf has struggled for most of 2007, however it finally gets some positive news.

WELLESLEY, MA-Hastings Village, a 52-unit affordable housing project proposed six years ago for Hastings Street, receives its approval from the state's court.

FRAMINGHAM, MA-Five tenants lease 21,964 sf of space in the Meadows at 161 Worcester Rd. on Route 9 in the the city's retail center. A broker involved says that the deals demonstrate that the MetroWest market is turning.

WALTHAM, MA-Cornerstone Mortgage leases 7,200 sf at 196 Bear Hill Rd. The company, which signed a ten-year lease, needed additional space for growth and was looking for a stand-alone building.

WESTBOROUGH, MA- Acquisition financing totaling $33 million is nailed down for the four-building, 372,679-sf Westborough Office Park. Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged the financing for Windsor Realty Fund-IV.

BOSTON-The Boston Wharf Co. sells its vast real estate portfolio in the waterfront's Fort Point Channel to New York-based Tishman Speyer Properties. The deal involves 44 industrial buildings which were sold for a reported $500 million.

BOSTON-John Hancock Financial Services Inc. sells its two adjoining properties located in the heart of the city's downtown area to NY-based the Related Cos. LP and locally based Beal Cos. LLP. The properties consist of a 61,110 sf building and an 18,000 sf parking lot.