According to an article in today’s Boston Herald, the owner of the Landmark Center building in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston has proposed a new tower be constructed atop the existing structure.
The Abbey Group is expected to file plans with the Boston Redevelopment Authority by year’s end to build a 300,000-square-foot addition to Landmark Center, the 1.5 million-square-foot office and retail development at the intersection of Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street.
The Landmark Center, located next to the Longwood Medical Area, was a Sears distribution center, back in the ’80’s and ’90’s. Subsequently, a developer proposed turning the building into a nursing home / assisted living facility. His plans were discouraged by neighbors (I don’t know why, it seemed the perfect place to put elderly in need of medical care) so he withdrew his proposal and sold the property to the Abbey Group, who built out the lower floors into retail space while adding office space on the upper floors.
The new proposal seems to be attracting more support from neighbors, perhaps because of changes the are has undergone during the past decade. There is much-more development on nearby Boylston Street. There is now a “buffer” between the old streets of residential housing and the Landmark Center.
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