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The proliferation of sleek office buildings and condo towers rising in Boston’s downtown neighborhoods attests to the fact that Boston is in the midst of its largest building boom since the stately mansions of the Back Bay rose from the landfill in the late 1800s. For blacks in design, construction and related industries, Boston’s current building...

More than 100 people attended the groundbreaking of Phase I of Courtside Family Apartments in Overtown, a $22.8 million 84-unit affordable housing development by AM Affordable Housing (Alonzo Mourning) and Housing Trust Group of Miami. Mourning spoke specifically about the tremendous need for affordable housing in Overtown....

The Massachusetts Diversity Coalition started with the goal to make sure that the state’s minority- and women-owned businesses got a piece of the growing gaming sector. However, the group now has bigger fish to fry — it wants to make sure that all major development projects make diversity a priority....

If you’ve been a New York City resident for some time, you’ve likely noticed how your once empty subway car is still packed with people,…...

One of the wealthiest African Americans in the country, with an estimated net worth of more than $700 million, entrepreneur and author R. Donahue Peebleshas built a legacy as a real estate guru with an estimated $5 billion, 6 million square foot portfolio. Set to appear at Black Enterprise’s Entrepreneurs Summit, May 13–15 at the Hyatt Regency A...

Louis B. Lynn’s family tree is rooted in entrepreneurship. His grandfather owned a grocery store and his father ran a butcher shop.“My father was businessman of the year back in the ’60s. Last year, we won the Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award,” says the president and chief horticulturalist of ENVIRO AgScience Inc. (No. 84 on the be indus...

Jay-Z is part of a group trying to renovate Nassau Coliseum......

Gentrification has taken place in every part of New York City, but few places have felt it as intensely as Harlem. The same abandoned homes on avenues once deemed unsafe to walk down are now selling for millions. Demographics, tastes and prices are changing for better and for worse at the same time.With this in mind city officials, real estate...