Millennium Tower (Boston)

Not to be confused with Millennium Place.
Millennium Tower

A rendering of the Millennium Tower
General information
Status Under construction
Type Residential, Retail
Location One Washington Street,[1] Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Construction started 2013
Estimated completion 2016[2]
Height
Roof 685 feet (209 m)[3]
Technical details
Floor count 60[4]
Floor area 1.1 million square feet
Design and construction
Architect Blake Middleton of Handel Architects
Developer Millennium Partners

Millennium Tower is a luxury high-rise residential skyscraper currently under construction in Boston, Massachusetts.[3] When complete, Millennium Tower will be 1.1 million square feet, including over 250,000 square feet for retail use.[5] The building is being built on the site of the former flagship store for Filene's in Downtown Crossing. Upon completion, Millennium Tower will be the tallest building in Boston outside the Back Bay neighborhood, the tallest residential building in Boston, and Boston's third-tallest overall.

History

The Millennium tower shares a space with the former flagship store of Filene's, called the Burnham Building. After Filene's closed, the building was put up for sale and was eventually bought by Vornado Realty Trust of New York. Vornado teamed up with Gale International for a $700 million redevelopment of the Filene's site. The project contained a 39-story tower including a 280-room hotel, 125-seat restaurant, 475,000 square feet (44,100 m2) of office space, 166 residential condos, 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) of retail space, and an adjacent park.[6] However, when the project ran out of money, it left the Burnham building gutted and a massive hole where parts of Filenes that were built in the 1950s - 1970s once stood. The city of Boston eventually revoked the permit on the project.[7]

In 2012, Millennium Partners took over the task and won approval for 1.2 million square feet of commercial and residential space in two buildings. On April 13, 2013, major tenant Arnold Worldwide was signed to occupy a large part of the new building. With the agreement in place, construction resumed.[8] The building officially broke ground on September 17, 2013 with mayor Thomas M. Menino in attendance.[9] On April 26, 2014 Six-hundred trucks poured 6,000 cubic yards of concrete into a slab for the new building making it the largest pour in the city's history.[10] Tenants already planned for the building include a Roche Bros supermarket.[11]

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See also

References

  1. ↑ "Millennium Tower Groundbreaking: 10 Things to Know". boston.curbed.com. 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  2. ↑ Karen Cord Taylor (2014-03-25). "Downtown View: Downtown Changing, Good For All". northendwaterfront.com. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tower Boston "Millennium Tower Main Info". mtboston.com. 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  4. ↑ "Floor count". millenniumptrs.com. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
  5. ↑ "Millennium Tower Boston". handelarch.com. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  6. ↑ "City OK's redevelopment of historic Filene's block". The Boston Globe. August 18, 2007.
  7. ↑ "Filene’s project to resume as major tenant signed". Boston Globe. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "Filene’s project to resume as major tenant signed". www.boston.com. 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  9. ↑ "Millennium Tower: Boston breaks ground on new Downtown Crossing skyscraper". www.metro.us. 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
  10. ↑ "Record Concrete Pour Paves Way For Millennium Tower At Downtown Crossing". boston.cbslocal.com. 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  11. ↑ "Millennium Tower to add to Boston skyline as 4th-tallest building". dailyfreepress.com. 2013-09-24. Retrieved 2014-03-25.

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