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The firm was founded in 1897 by two members of Boston's Cabot family and F. Murray Forbes, originally to manage the real estate assets of the two families. In the 1940s, CC&F started developing industrial parks.
In 1948, the firm developed the 300-acre New England Industrial Center in Needham, Massachusetts.
In the early 1950s, the firm entered the real estate development business, led by Alexander C. Forbes and Gerald W. Blakeley Jr. In 1956, the firm was bought by Blakely.
In 1979, it was bought by Field Enterprises, whose ownership passed to Marshall Field V in 1984.
In 1959, CC&F partnered with Paine Webber to form the Laguna Niguel Corporation, which developed Laguna Niguel, one of California's first master planned communities. Cabot Road and Forbes Road in Laguna Hills and Laguna Niguel are named after the firm.
As of 1987, CC&F owned 15 million square feet of industrial and office space in 20 states.
In May 2014, CC&F and Boston Andes Capital purchased a two-acre site across from the Quincy Adams subway station in Quincy, Massachusetts, for $10.3 million, planning to build 180 apartments., a project they completed in 2016.
In November 2017, the firm purchased the locally well-known site of Boston Cab for $51 million.
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In 2020, CC&F completed a $300 million redevelopment project to rebuild the St. Gabriel’s Monastery in Brighton as 555 luxury apartments.
From 1960 to the first few years of the new millennium, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes had developed more than 60 million square feet of commercial space across the country, including doing master planning for more than 100 industrial and office parks.
Among notable American business leaders who have worked at the firm: Mortimer Zuckerman (1962-1970), Gerald Blakeley, Edward H. Linde, and Charles H. Spaulding (founder of Spaulding & Slye).
From Wikipedia’s article on Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4