What happened this week in the real estate world? Allow us to tell you:

•GE wants to destroy a historic bridge as it develops its new headquarters, but its facing local resistance.

•Say what? Boston’s old city hall is for sale?

•What’s going on with that old power plant in South Boston? It seems housing is being planned.

•Boston-area students explain how they are worsening Beantown’s problem with gentrification.

•Construction update – 188 Brookline, which will eventually be Fenway’s tallest building, is halfway finished.

•Malls are dying all over the country, but their re-use could save the suburbs, argues realtor.com.

•McMansions have returned in force, but new NAHB analysis shows that super-duper-sized homes are also growing strongly.