Boston, MA – Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced that the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Board of Directors approved the following projects recently. Brigham & Women’s Hospital received approval for its Institutional Master Plan, which included approval for the Mass. Mental Health Center redevelopment. The phased project will allow the health center to return to its original site while also creating additional new housing and office/research space. Children’s Hospital received approval for its Institutional Master Plan, which included approval for the Main Building Expansion project. The project will allow Children’s to create 30-50 new inpatient beds. The 17-23 Greylock Road project in Allston received approval for the creation of 19 new housing units. In Roxbury, the BRA received approval to transfer five parcels of land to the City for the creation of Gourdin Veteran’s Memorial Park. And in a step to spur development within the Mayor’s Innovation District, the BRA received approval to advertise two Requests for Proposals for two parcels of land within the Marine Industrial Park.
Brigham & Women’s Hospital Receives Approval for Mass. Mental Health Center Redevelopment
Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH) received approval for its Institutional Master Plan, which included approval for the Mass. Mental Health Center (MMHC) redevelopment project. The project will enable the Mass. Mental Health Center to return to its original site and provide mental health services to its patients in modern, state of the art buildings where patients can receive efficient care in a dignified setting. In association with the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH), BWH will redevelop three parcels in the Longwood Medical & Academic area and Mission Hill neighborhoods in a three-phase project. The phased-project includes the construction of approximately 633,960 square feet in four buildings:
1. The Partial Hospital/Fenwood Inn Building: A new Department of Mental Health (DMH)-operated Partial Hospital/Fenwood Inn, which will be developed by BWH on behalf of DMH, will include a 47 bed transitional shelter program for homeless, mentally ill men and women, a five bed crisis stabilization unit, and 8,260 square feet of partial hospital and outpatient treatment space.
2. The Binney Street Building: A new clinical and administrative building, which will be developed and owned by BWH, will include 56,540 square feet of clinical and office space to be used by BWH for outpatient uses. DMH will occupy the Binney Street building for similar purposes, on an interim basis until the DMH-designated space is available.
3. The Residential Building: A residential building, which will be developed, operated and controlled by RTH, which will provide approximately 136 units, including approximately 66 affordable rental units and approximately 70 condominiums.
4. The Brigham & Women’s Building: A new research and development, clinical and office building, which will be developed, managed and controlled by BWH, will include approximately 358,670 square feet of space. DMH’s clinical office uses will be relocated from the Binney Street Building into the Brigham & Women’s Building once it is complete. At that time, BWH will use the Binney Street building for office and clinical space.
In the first phase of the project, the developer will demolish the existing buildings followed by the construction of the Partial Hospital/Fenwood Inn Building and Binney Street Building to serve the DMH clientele. Later phases of the project will include RTH’s development of a residential building and BWH’s development of a building for medical-related uses. It is expected that all three phases will take 10 years to complete. The redevelopment is the result of a request for proposals and subsequent selection process conducted by the Mass. Division of Capital Asset Management on behalf of DMH.
The construction of the four buildings is expected to generate approximately 600 new construction jobs. Demolition is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2010 with completion of the Partial Hospital/Fenwood Inn Buildings and the Binney Street Building in the third quarter of 2011.
Children’s Hospital Receives Approval for Main Building Expansion Project
Children’s Hospital received approval for its Main Building Expansion project. Originally approved by the BRA in April 2008, Children’s submitted a revised proposal for the project in April 2009. The project will allow Children’s to create 30-50 new inpatient beds in an approximately 80,000 square foot, 10-story building. The building, designed by Payette Architects, will be constructed as a lateral expansion to Children’s existing 8-story Main Building.
Children’s main campus is located in the Longwood Medical & Academic Area and today consists of more than 2.3 million square feet and 386 beds.
The fully funded project is expected to start construction this spring and be complete in 2013. The project is expected to create approximately 200 construction jobs. Total project cost is $100 million.
17-23 Greylock Road in Allston to Create 19 New Housing Units
The 17-23 Greylock Road project in Allston received approval for the redevelopment of a three-story residential building consisting of 19 units. Located at the corner of Greylock Road and Glenville Avenue, the 21,000 square foot building will include one one-bedroom unit and 19 two-bedroom units. Two units will be affordable. The building, designed by RODE Architects, Inc., will fit in with both residential scales that make up Greylock Road and Glenville Avenue. Currently, the project site contains three structures, two two-family homes and a single family home. The three structures will be demolished to allow for the construction of the new residential building.
The developer, Greylock Glenville LLC, plans to begin construction of the project in the third quarter of 2010 with an estimated completion date in the first quarter of 2012. Total project cost is approximately $5.5 million.
BRA Transfers Parcels to Create Gourdin Veteran’s Memorial Park in Dudley Square
The Board also granted approval for the BRA to transfer five parcels to the City of Boston for the creation of the Justice Edward O. Gourdin Veteran’s Memorial Park in Roxbury. The BRA owns the five vacant parcels that comprise a triangle of approximately 21,500 square feet in Dudley Square. The project site is adjacent to where the City’s new Area B2 police station is currently under construction and bordered by Malcolm X Boulevard, Washington Street, Guild Row and Dudley Street. The City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department will be the custodian of the park.
Starting in 1998, the BRA, with the concurrence of the Federal Highway Administration, the Mass Highway Department, and the City of Boston Public Improvement Commission began assembling the parcels for the purpose of constructing the park.
BRA Receives Approval to Advertise RFP for Parcels M & N in the Marine Industrial Park
The BRA received permission from the Board to advertise two separate Requests for Proposals (RFP) for the redevelopment of Parcels M and N within the South Boston Marine Industrial Park. Parcel M is located at 3 Dolphin Way and consists of approximately 148,150 square feet of land with an existing two-story structure. Parcel N is located at 25 Fid Kennedy Avenue and consists of approximately 140,000 square feet of land with an existing two-story structure.
Targeted uses include, but are not limited to, seafood processing and distribution, general manufacturing, warehousing, life sciences, biotechnology and other uses consistent with the Innovation District recently announced by Mayor Menino.
RFPs will soon be issued for each parcel separately, which will allow for prospective developers to consider utilizing the parcels individually or as a package.
