Boston

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Amgen Inc. moves into an eight-story, 285,000-sf laboratory and research facility here in the heart of the city's biotech center. This is the company's first foray into the area.

ARLINGTON, MA-This town is taking a regional approach to development in the area by asking neighboring Belmont and Cambridge to join it in a tri-community development district. Similar districts have been established in other areas of eastern Massachusetts.

BOSTON-The Salvation Army seeks proposals from firms interested in redeveloping its state headquarters in the Back Bay area here. In doing so, the evangelical Protestant denomination joins other religious institutions looking to take advantage of the local real estate market.

SUTTON, MA-Bay State Moving Systems Inc. will consolidate its offices and warehouses, which now are spread throughout Worcester and Millbury, at South Commerce Park. The project is scheduled to be completed by mid-December.

BOSTON-Four Seasons Hotel general manager Robin Brown leaves his job to establish CWB Boylston whose principals will be Brown, mall developer Stephen Weiner and Julian Cohen. The trio will focus on developing a luxury hotel and condominium complex here at the Prudential Center.

BOSTON-The neighborhood of Brookline here in the city is suddenly faced with the possibility of being able to develop ten surplus acres owned by the state. The town has yet to decide what to do but it is its first significant development opportunity in years.

ACTON, MA-W.R. Grace, the Columbia, MD-based chemical company, explores redeveloping portions of its 259-acre former Superfund site here and in Concord. This move is stirring up local activists who contend the site is not clean.

NATICK, MA-REON Broadband establishes a partnership with Franchi Management Company Inc. The internet and broadband service provider will offer high-speed internet and other broadband services to eight of Franchi Management's commercial office buildings throughout the Metro West area.