Who are the tech companies on the move in 2017?
As the year comes to an end, we’ve been tracking the tech companies who have moved their offices in the past 12 months. The list includes tech companies – and not co-working spaces – that moved to Boston or within Boston in 2017, provided that the move led to a change of address (so moving within the same building doesn’t count).
Hoping to help our readers to get an immediate snapshot, we built an interactive map of who’s now where. To navigate the map, just click on the red house icon and you’ll see a window with a short summary of the move.
Here’s the map of the Boston tech companies on the move in 2017, and where to find them (data gathered by BostInno with the help of commercial real estate company CBRE/New England):
Here’s a list in chronological order of all the moves we tracked:
• In January, Smartsheet announced the company is opening a new Boston office on Lincoln Street, its second location after its headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.
• In February, Amazon confirmed to The Boston Globe that it plans to expand into the new Back Bay offices of WeWork while retaining its Kendall Square office in Cambridge.
• In April, Fuze moved to its 51,000-square-foot new hub from its old office in Cambridge, which was a bit smaller: 37,000 square feet. We took a tour of the new Boston headquarters.
• In May, ShoeBuy.com announced plans to move from its longtime downtown Boston headquarters at 101 Arch Street to an office at Constitution Wharf in Charlestown, BBJ reported.
• In May, Analog Devices announced it is relocating and expanding its “Analog Garage” from its location in Cambridge, Mass. to downtown Boston.
• In June, Red Hat moved from Westford to a 39,000 square feet space on A Street.
• In June, VMware announced it has leased 37,948 square feet at the Lafayette City Center in Boston’s Downtown Crossing.
• In June, Catalant Technologies moved to a new office at 25 Thomson Place in Fort Point. Here are the photos of the new office.
• In August, CloudHealth Technologies announced plans to relocate its HQ from Boston’s Fort Point area – 280 Summer Street – to expanded offices at 100 Summer Street.
• In August, Fasten left its shared space at WeWork South Station to move to Two Financial Center at 60 South Street, BBJ reported.
• At the end of August, Facebook announced it is moving from its current location at One Broadway to 100 Binney Street. The two locations are less than a 10-minute walking distance from each other in the Kendall Square area. Here’s how the tech giant plans to grow its new Boston office.
• In September, PTC announced plans to move its global headquarters to 121 Seaport in Boston’s Seaport District from Needham, Mass.
• In October, Gupta Media moved to an approximately 10,400 square foot space on the 7th floor of 200 Berkeley Street from their former office located just a short walk away on 420 Boylston Street. Recently, we visited the space.
• In November, cybersecurity company Rapid7 announced it is moving its Boston headquarters from the Financial District to become the anchor tenant at The Hub on Causeway.
• In November, London-based Reward Gateway opened its global North America headquarters on the 8th floor of 141 Tremont Street. We took a tour.
• In November, Bose announced it will lease 98,000 square feet at the Boston Landing campus in Brighton starting next summer, BBJ reported.
• In December, FitNow – the maker of the app Lose It! – announced it is leaving its office in the Seaport to move to 101 Tremont St. in Downtown Crossing, BBJ reported.