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This was previously the admissions reception center. Hopefully when Pardee vacates it BU will backfill it with other departments instead of converting it to student housing.

The Burlington campus is not part of the IMP and almost never mentioned in this forum. But Northeastern just purchased a 109,000 sq. ft. BioLab building in Burlington, not far from the innovation Campus of which it will be a part. The previous owner bought the building from the developer in...

The old UR Complex: Nightingale, Holmes, Lake and Meserve Hall. Inside it is a rabbit warren of offices. Although I would hope that they would do a facadectomy for at least a portion of the complex.

Wait a minute! The IMP that was published last year showed Mugar and Cullinane demolished and Hurtig spared. Now it shows Hurtig and Cullinane demolished and Mugar spared and to be renovated? They have changed it!

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/new-pardee-building-will-unite-global-studies-school/ Plans have "gone public" with an article in BU Today. Preliminary site work to begin in March, 2026 and construction will start a couple months layer with a two-year completion date.

Ugliest high rises ever in Boston. They put new facades on a few years ago but they were identical to the originals.

I wonder how COM people feel about this. Social science departments getting a gleaming new building, yet BU says they cannot afford a new COM building due to lack of a major donor. COM is one of the top communication schools in the country and is still in a converted century old industrial...

For a building that Northeastern has been eager to build since 2019, it seems like a long design process.

Northeastern submitted this iteration of the building in December 2023. Seems like a long time to be "preparing documents". I wonder if the need to replace White Hall has anything to do with the delay.

I was curious why construction had not started on 840 Columbus given that the City gave final approval almost exactly a year ago. I decided to go to the source and emailed Northeastern's facilities department. This building has been proposed, in various forms, since 2019. I received this reply...

The thumbnail mentions a completion date of 2028, but the article gives no time frame. Speaking of completion dates, what is going on with the huge 840 Columbus residence hall to be built by ACC? it received final approval from the City of Boston almost a year ago, yet construction has not...

https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/06/new-multipurpose-athletics-compled/ Public announcement to the campus community. No time frame provided. The arch at the entrance to Matthews will be preserved and incorporated inside the new building.

Very interesting. I am glad that BU finally ran out of old industrial buildings to rehab e.g. Cummington St.

Is there a design and timetable for the new building?