105 W First Street | South Boston

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7 Stories 250,000 sq ft LEED Certified BPDA Approved w/ wide neighborhood support today.

map https://www.google.com/maps/place/1...a09841bd15bdf7a3!8m2!3d42.342903!4d-71.053134

Project will include 1,600 sq ft of gf retail space, 2,400 sq ft of convener space, 10,000 sq ft of innovation space, and 3,000 sq ft of tenant amenity space.

Community benefits include helping to pay for the upkeep of a small park nearby.


Plans are already changing for 105 W First Street:
- 1 story cut off
- West 2nd Street entrance modified to have “more of a sense of presence”
- Nearby street improvements

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http://www.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2017/04/developers_revise_south_boston_office_building_proposal
 
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Ares Management Acquires 105 West First Street

New York-based, Ares Management, has acquired the development site for $25 million. The approved seven-story, 250,000 square foot research and development (R&D) office building that will be located on a 42,219 square foot site in South Boston across from A Street Park steps to the Channel Center development and the Broadway MBTA Red Line station.
 
For $80 million we have a new owner/developer (Tishman Speyer). If I remember correctly they own the garage across the street.

https://www.bldup.com/posts/south-boston-property-trades-for-80-million

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This may mean we'll actually get something built in our life time.
$55 million on this flip. "NICE!!"

Several Big Money Developers with the ability to quickly arrange construction financing are converging on this area bounded roughly by the Fort Point Chanel and the Haul Road and Summer St and Dorchester Ave

the list already includes:
Tishman Speyer
Alexandria -- former G.E HQ new construction site
Related-Beal -- 6.5 acre parking lot adjacent to GE HQ site

There will e more
 
New rendering


Tishman Speyer partnering with another investment company to create a new biotech real estate investment company called Breakthrough. This is the first project.

Looks like real-estate wise at least there is a competitor to Kendall a brewin
 

Site demo has begun according to Bldup.
Looks like a major change to the facing.
 

Site demo has begun according to Bldup.
Looks like a major change to the facing.
I'll say. Maybe they have a tenant and are willing to splurge on design and materials.
 
Looks different
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Stick -- I think that tishman-launches-life-sciences-division
Tishman is learning what the Life Sciences Lab market wants at least in the Kendall Sq. version

Remember that they have just down the street two &1/2 other teams of developers with a lot more experience at this kind of stuff
Related - Beal [ 244-284 A St. ChannelSide Acquisitions, LLC, an affiliate of Related Beal ]
Alexandria -- [15 Necco -- ARE-MA No. 74, LLC, -- joint venture between affiliates of Alexandria Real Estate Equities ("ARE") and National Development]
Alexandria -- [99 A St. -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities and Anchor Line Partners -- a 210K SF lab building]
 
today's Universal Hub has a video showing two excavators helping*1 the RCN Building in "biting the dust"
By adamg - 3/3/20 - 4:03 pm
Nate Swain compiled this video of the demolition of a former RCN building on West 1st Street by the Haul Road in South Boston. It's coming down to make way for an eight-story office building aimed at "innovators."

*1
[along with Gravity]
 

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