Nearly 300 gathered Thursday at Copley Fairmont for Bisnow's 2013 Boston Economic & Real Estate Forecast. Normandy Real Estate principal Justin Krebs said drivers for Boston's recovery are knowledge-based industries healthcare, life science and technology thriving in places like Cambridge (think Harvard, M.I.T.) and Boston's Seaport where the Big Dig modernized the transportation infrastructure.

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