Brian Grossman is a highly skilled real estate lawyer with more than 20 years of experience assisting developers, telecommunications, renewable energy, financial services, and commercial clients with matters ranging from land use and development, litigation, real estate transactions, landlord-tenant disputes, and related real estate issues.
Brian has familiarity and experience in complex real estate transactions pertaining to financing, leasing and sale of property, acquisition, and other environmental issues with a proven track record of handling complex zoning and land use appeals. His extensive zoning and land use experience has helped him to successfully represent clients before permit-granting authorities in over 170 municipalities in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Brian is also the former co-editor of the Commercial Real Estate Insight & News blog.
Besides work
Brian is an avid and dedicated sports fan, particularly the New York Islanders, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, and Detroit Tigers. When he’s not at work, he can be found playing in his local hockey league.
Brian also loves to travel and scuba dive. “It gives me an opportunity to see and appreciate aquatic life in way that is just not possible by only viewing it in an aquarium. Swimming in the open water with sharks, dolphins, turtles, stingrays, and more has given me memories I will treasure for a lifetime.”
Affiliations
- Chair-Elect, Board of Directors, MetroWest Chamber of Commerce
- Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors, New England Wireless Association (NEWA)
- Member, NAIOP Massachusetts Zoning/Land Use sub-committee
- Member, Boston Bar Association
Previous
- Vice Chair for Public Policy, Board of Directors, MetroWest Chamber of Commerce
Honors
- Named to Best Lawyers in America (2023 and 2024)
Articles + Talks
Articles
- “COVID-19 Legal Impacts Far-Reaching for RE,” The Real Reporter, June 2, 2020
- “A Campus Crown Jewel: How to Deliver a Great Facility,” Bowditch & Dewey, Worcester, Massachusetts, January 2019
Talks
- “A Checklist For Adjusting Your Brewery for Phase II,” Massachusetts Brewers Guild, June 9, 2020
- Planning Law Review and American Planning Association, 2013
- “Broadband and Wireless Delivery,” American Planning Association National Planning Conference
- New England Wireless Association Seminar, Federal Communications Commission’s Report and Order, In re Acceleration of Broadband Deployment by Improving Wireless Facilities Siting Policies.
- Mass Municipal Lawyer Association, 2015 Annual Meeting and Convention “Get Plugged in to Wireless Law that Affects Your Community – New FCC Rules on Wireless Facilities and More”
Media Mentions
- “Developer seeks to add 340 units next to Bancroft Lofts in Framingham” (Worcester Business Journal)
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- Rhode Island
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- U.S. District Courts, Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island
Education
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
- B.S., cum laude, Bryant College (now Bryant University)
Events + Recordings
Publications
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Client Alert: Massachusetts’ New Economic Relief Bill – What Enabling Partnerships for Growth Means for Local Zoning
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Jonathan Hausner, Samantha McDonald, Mary Feeney, and Brian Grossman Write, “COVID-19 Legal Impacts Far-Reaching for RE” for The Real Reporter
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Client Alert: MA Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development Issues Regulations and Guidance on COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium
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Client Alert: Massachusetts Pauses Residential and Commercial Evictions and Residential Foreclosures During the COVID-19 State of Emergency
News
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Brian Grossman Named Chair-Elect of Board of Directors for MetroWest Chamber of Commerce
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23 Bowditch Attorneys Recognized in the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and 10 Bowditch Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™
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Brian Grossman quoted in Worcester Business Journal’s “Developer seeks to add 340 units next to Bancroft Lofts in Framingham”
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22 Bowditch Attorneys Recognized in the 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and 5 Bowditch Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™
Commercial Real Estate Insight & News
Brian Grossman quoted in Worcester Business Journal’s “Developer seeks to add 340 units next to Bancroft Lofts in Framingham”
Brian Grossman Quoted in MetroWest Daily News’ “Grocery store proposed for Shoppers World; What’s happening to Barnes & Noble, Old Navy?”
Massachusetts’ New Economic Relief Bill – What Enabling Partnerships for Growth Means for Local Zoning