On way to auction, Alan Turing wartime manuscript to make stop in Boston

A key handwritten manuscript from British computer scientist Alan Turing, whose story was spotlighted in last year’s “The Imitation Game,” will make a stop in Boston on the way to be auctioned off in New York City.

The documents, which will be auctioned off on April 3, will be available March 27-28 at British auction house Bonhams in Boston by appointment only.

Bonhams said it expects the 56-page manuscript will fetch at least seven figures. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to charity,…

Hamburger Mary's property, a block from $40M Bay View housing project, changes hands

Phoenix Investors of Milwaukee this month bought the Hamburger Mary’s restaurant property on Kinnickinnic Avenue in Bay View.

Also this week, a national contracting supplier will move into the local market after sealing a building lease in Wauwatosa.

In Bay View, Phoenix Investors paid $600,000 for the Hamburger Mary’s property at 2130 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., according to state records. The deal closed March 10. The restaurant opened about four years ago on the property, and has a lease for the building.

“We…

New owner hits pause on Uptown Park's $1B redevelopment

A year ago, Houston-based real estate investment trust AmREIT Inc. unveiled a $1 billion plan to redevelop the Uptown Park shopping center at the corner of Post Oak Boulevard and the 610 Loop.

But the private company that just bought AmREIT is reconsidering those plans, the Houston Chronicle reports.

“We’re pausing long enough to re-evaluate,” Terry Brown, chairman and CEO of Edens Investment Trust, told the Chronicle.

The change of ownership is the primary reason for the pause, Brown told the…

Harlan Crow: Why Preston Center needs a sky bridge

When Harlan Crow starts talking about the proposed sky bridge in Preston Center — a project that has divided members of the community— he said it’s not about the bridge, but rather a grocery store.

“The city’s fight to get grocery stores in neighborhoods, and this neighborhood has a very small grocery store that I think doesn’t serve the community,” Crow, who is chairman and CEO of Dallas-based investment firm Crow Holdings, told the Dallas Business Journal.”I think this is a unique chance to…

Half of units in Howard Hughes' luxury Honolulu towers sold to Hawaii residents

More than half of the buyers in The Howard Hughes Corp.’s first two luxury condominium towers in Honolulu are from Hawaii, with the remaining buyers from Japan, Canada, China, Korea, Australia and the Mainland, the Texas-based developer said Friday in a letter to its shareholders.

The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC) said that 25 percent of the buyers of the total of 482 units in the Anaha and Waiea towers under construction in Kakaako — which, combined, are more than 80 percent sold — are from…