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Downtown Crossing: Witness & Spread the Word

Jun 14, 2012

“Millennium Partners has always been a real partner of the City of Boston. They continue to do excellent work leading the way in the building of an exciting new day for the area of Downtown Crossing and the Millennium Tower/Burnham Building project.” - Mayor Menino

Millennium Partners released renderings and specs of its planned mixed use Millennium Tower/Burnham Building in Downtown Crossing. The redevelopment plan reawakens the Landmark 1912 Burnham Building and includes condominium and rental residences in the Tower, retail shopping on the lower floors reaching across the entire site, office space on the upper floors of the Burnham Building, and underground parking.
  • Total private investment: $615M
  • Total sq ft: 1.3M SF
  • Tower height: 606 ft
  • Residential Units (Condominium and Rental): 500
  • Retail: 230,000 SF
  • Office: 200,000 SF
  • Parking: 525 spaces
Millennium Partners has begun the required environmental impact studies for the project under Article 80, and it expects to have the results of the studies ready for public review and comment within 60 days. Just days after the announcement, the BRA participated in Suffolk University's Center for Real Estate Development and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board's public forum, "Downtown Crossing - Back in Business," to discuss the increasing momentum surrounding Downtown Crossing.  Deputy Director of Community Planning, Randi Lathrop, served as a panelist, alongside Roger Berkowitz (President and CEO of Legal Sea Foods), Howard Elkus (Principal at Elkus Manfredi Architects), Rosemarie Sansone (President of the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District-BID), and Mike Telser (Founder and Partner, Retail Concepts). Here are a few facts that were shared at the forum, and ones you'll want to know about Downtown Crossing.
  • 80 new businesses since 2008.
  • 35 new restaurants since 2008.
  • 8 more food establishments will open in 2012.
  • Only 2 in the nation, and it's calling Boston home next: Walgreens.
 

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Boston BID Downtown Boston BID Downtown Crossing Filene's Ford Hall Forum Millennium Millennium Tower/Burnham Building Walgreen's 

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