My guess is that this is a sop to the lab plans in the Fawcett St area: Pitching potential tenants easy access to commuter rail for their suburban employees.
I am amused that they are keeping both the pre-war and mid-century buildings. The pre-war building has good details, but I doubt anyone would miss the mid-century one.
There needs to be a sunsetting of the transferable liquor licenses. They create perverse incentives where a restaurant is more valuable dead than alive.