Rents were down 1.8 percent in December after a year in which Cambridge saw a 25.2 percent rise in prices and Somerville rose even more, according to some real estate industry analysts. Another local trend continued too: Life-sciences clusters spreading from Kendall Square.

Developer Boston Properties plans to build 465 dwelling units at its 135 Broadway tower in Kendall Square, up from 425, HubSpot has terminated its lease for digs nearby in East Cambridge and there’s much more going on in local real estate and development.

A life science developer paid $130 million for One Canal Park in East Cambridge, up from its $72 million value five years ago, while construction continues on 1,038 more residential units for Cambridge and a seller makes around $56.4 million on two properties.

A captain of private equity appears to have bought into Harvard Square, the scene of his college years, while Somerville has approved three projects around Union Square.

Plenty has been going on in development this spring, including an environmentally focused building planned for North Point’s Parcel U, a slew of MIT moves and more on BioMed Realty’s push into Somerville.

Food For Free began assembling Just Eats Grocery Boxes on Feb. 24 at its new distribution center on First Street in East Cambridge, producing 3,000 family boxes of food a week with partners in the worlds of nonprofit work, biopharma and real estate development.

The life sciences real estate development company that bought the 26-acre Alewife Park from GCP Applied Technologies in July for $125 million just dropped another $54 million on a property next door: One Alewife Center, a 90,000-square-foot four-story office property on an additional acre.

Public meetings this week look at Nuestra, a recreational cannabis shop seeking to open in Lechmere; renewals of proposed Alewife zoning and an East Cambridge Conservation District Study; and help for educators and students in the coming school year.

Public meetings this week look at evaluating superintendent Kenneth Salim, ensuring students’ social, emotional and mental health, building a life sciences center in a drab part of the Alewife Quadrangle and a petition that would urge developers to turn away from fossil fuels.

Most employees of a Kendall Square research center have been working from home because of the coronavirus. Now the organization, the Ragon Institute, wants to start bringing them back to the office as part of what it calls a research project, apparently without consulting with city officials.