Gross v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Inc.

The plaintiffs are tenants in one of three residential apartment buildings constructed in the mid-1960’s as part of the Prudential Center on Boylston Street in Boston. The defendant, Prudential Insurance Company of America, is the owner and developer of the Prudential Center and the plaintiffs’ landlord. *116When the voters of the Commonwealth elected to repeal rent control in 1994, the defendant notified the plaintiffs of a gradual rent increase. In response, the plaintiffs filed suit claiming that, because the defendant had received a public subsidy in the form of tax exemptions to build the…