The current edition of MassINC’s CommonWealth magazine features several items related to the Gateway Cities.  If you want to learn more about the state of affairs in Lawrence—including the city’s embattled mayor—check out Gabrielle Gurley’s feature story “Lawrence on the mat.”  Also, Robert Fishman, real estate partner at Nutter McClennen & Fish, LLP, describes the financing deal for the Quincy Center project.  He says the deal, “among the most complicated documents with which I have been involved during more than 30 years of real estate practice,” might just be the “creative solution” needed to move projects in the Gateway Cities forward today.  Finally, Lowell resident John Schneider puts his own Gateway Cities spin on a review of Ed Glaeser’s book, Triumph of the City.