Anduril quadruples Boston-area footprint with Waltham expansion

🏢 AI defense contractor Anduril Industries is leasing 162,000 square feet in Waltham, quadrupling its local presence.

• The company has raised over $4 billion since its founding in 2017.
• The Route 128 office market has been struggling with record-high vacancy.

🏨 A permitted site for a 72-room hotel across from the BCEC has hit the market for $6.5 million.

• A recent study estimated that the area around the convention center needs 800-1,000 more hotel rooms before the BCEC could expand.

📚 Mayor Wu broke ground on the new $30.9 million Fields Corner Branch library in Dorchester.

• It'll be the first BPL branch built under Boston's "Fossil Fuel Free" standard.

🏝️ Blue Heron Farm, the 7,000-square-foot, five-bedroom Martha's Vineyard estate favored by President Obama when he was in office, is hitting the market for $39 million.

• It's nearly 30 acres in Chilmark and sold for $22.4 million in 2011.