(l-r) Douglas Linde, president of Boston Properties; John Hailer, CEO of the Americas and Asia for NGAM; Owen Thomas, CEO of BP; and Bryan Koop, senior vice president of BP
Boston – Boston Properties (BP) and Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) recently held groundbreaking ceremonies at 888 Boylston Street, the site of the first Back Bay office tower to be constructed in more than a decade.
Naxis will be the anchor tenant in the 17-story, 425,000sf building designed to be Boston’s most sustainable office building, using 45% less energy and 37% less potable water than the average office building.
Customers at 888 Boylston can leave the lights off 60% of the time, as the building features daylight penetration to 95% of the floor area.
Designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification from the USGBC, additional sustainable features include a chilled beam HVAC system, on-site rooftop wind power generation that will power all exterior building and plaza lighting, and a rain harvesting and reuse system.
888 Boylston
NGAM, one of the largest asset managers in the world with 1,400 employees in Boston alone, will relocate its United States corporate headquarters to this new building. Natixis will occupy about 128,000sf in five stories with the option to expand onto a sixth floor, and construction of its space is scheduled to be complete in the fall of 2017.
