Percelay Still Buying

Multifamily isn't just hot downtown. Mount Vernon Co's Bruce Percelay plans to close next week on a roughly one-acre property in Allston next to a site where he's already developing 100 apartments.
We snapped Bruce in his Back Bay office recently. He closed 2010, spending $50M buying multifamily properties in December alone and now he's adding on to his Griggs Street site in Allston. He plans to close Wednesday on a property off Commonwealth Ave, adjacent to the site he assembled at 9-23 Griggs St. He expects to pay $3.2M for the new 54k SF parcel filled only with an old 49k SF industrial building. He tells us it's a strategic piece of land to own so Mount Vernon can help shape the future of the area. Will he plan more housing for his latest buy? He'll meet with the city and neighbors first, but he says ?housing is a logical use.?

Continue reading this story with a free account

Log in or register
Sign up for more articles like this
Subscribe to Bisnow's Boston Newsletters
Related Stories

Federal Government To Sell Nearly 31K SF In Five Points: The Denver Deal Sheet

Avison Young Had Assets Frozen By Bank Over Unpaid Taxes

Artificial Intelligence Companies Reshaping Dublin Office Demand As OpenAI Confirms HQ

Mars Factory Overhaul Stalls As Candymaker's Chicago Expansion Accelerates

Camden Property Trust Sells West Coast Portfolio, Clears $1.5B Target

Boston Property Owners Raise Alarms About Cost Of Electric-Building Push

Empire State Building Observation Deck Hemorrhaging Visitors, Value

Cortland, Pulte, INVH, Walker & Dunlop Execs Talk Changing Demographics, AI

America's War Machine Is Growing, Sparking A Defense Real Estate Boom

Clarion Under Contract To Sell 18-Story Seaport Office Tower

Boca Raton's New Leaders Throwing 'All Kinds Of Curveballs' At Developers

CBRE Posts 16% Revenue Growth In Q2 As Data Center Business Shines