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Meh, or a BU dorm.
Meh, or a BU dorm.
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Picture if you will, a college kid, in his flimsly basketball shorts, lying on his back, on the grass, on a beautiful day....resting his head on the lap of his hot significant other....who's knowingly running a finger gently, and slowly, down the college boy's chest.... That's how I see the sneaker and 'tower!'
I like the renderings...and congrats to New Balance, the second Boston corporation headquartered here, to expand and invest in the city!
Picture if you will, a college kid, in his flimsly basketball shorts, lying on his back, on the grass, on a beautiful day....resting his head on the lap of his hot significant other....who's knowingly running a finger gently, and slowly, down the college boy's chest.... That's how I see the sneaker and 'tower!'
I like the renderings...and congrats to New Balance, the second Boston corporation headquartered here, to expand and invest in the city!
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Atlantad --the other would be ?
how about some of these:
Partners
MFA
Northeastern U
Boston U
Legal Seafoods
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Wentwoth Institute of Technology
As far as I can say all the above are corporations and all are headquatered in Boston and all have recently expanded
Picture if you will, a college kid, in his flimsly basketball shorts, lying on his back, on the grass, on a beautiful day....resting his head on the lap of his hot significant other....who's knowingly running a finger gently, and slowly, down the college boy's chest.... That's how I see the sneaker and 'tower!'
I like the renderings...and congrats to New Balance, the second Boston corporation headquartered here, to expand and invest in the city!
Atlantad --the other would be ?
how about some of these:
Partners
MFA
Northeastern U
Boston U
Legal Seafoods
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Wentwoth Institute of Technology
As far as I can say all the above are corporations and all are headquatered in Boston and all have recently expanded
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Liberty Mutual!
I just find it refreshing that, for a change, a nationally known Boston corporation is expanding in the city and not moving out of town...or being bought out! I don't consider universities and colleges to be for-profit corporations! I should have made myself more clear on that point! I've said many times in this forum, Boston is so damn lucky to have the 8 major research institutions plus so many other institutions of higher learning in the city and immediate metro area!
Liberty Mutual!
I just find it refreshing that, for a change, a nationally known Boston corporation is expanding in the city and not moving out of town...or being bought out! I don't consider universities and colleges to be for-profit corporations! I should have made myself more clear on that point! I've said many times in this forum, Boston is so damn lucky to have the 8 major research institutions plus so many other institutions of higher learning in the city and immediate metro area!
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By 'corporation' I'm sure s/he meant 'for-profit corporation', which excludes most of your list.
By 'corporation' I'm sure s/he meant 'for-profit corporation', which excludes most of your list.
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Atlantad -- what about Legal Seafoods -- clearly its Nationally known as the chowder has been served at the White House for big time dinners?
What about Vertex Pharma -- expanding, moving to Boston from Cambridge, certainly nationally known because of all the PR "largest private sector construction project underway", etc.
There are quite a few companies that could have made the list.
I picked mostly the not-for profits -- because outside of their status with the IRS they are corporations with well paid employees, physical plant, customers, advertising -- just about what any for profit corporation has and has to do
As for buying and selling in/out -- there are Boston (Greater Boston generally) companies buying others outside of the area. There are outside companies, both US and other who have seen value and are buying into Boston area. I don't find either to be exceptional -- it's just business
Recently for example the following M&A involved local companies (courtesy of Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/massachusettsmergers?pg=16
1) Amazon bought Kiva Systems (Reading) to get involved in robotics for fulfillment
2) PerkinElmer Inc. (Waltham) bought:
a) Caliper Life Sciences Inc. (Hopkinton). Caliper sells a suite of molecular imaging and detection technologies that complement PerkinElmer’s products and services.
b) P&E made seven smaller acquisitions this year as the global life sciences sector consolidates -- including Labtronics Inc., a Canadian company that provides electronic laboratory notebook services in order to extend its data integration software offerings to its laboratory customers
3) P&E's Waltham neighbor Thermo-Fisher bought:
a) Phadia, a Swedish firm for $3.5 billion in cash -- specializes in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics
b) Sterilin Ltd. a British company that provides single-use plastic products.
c) Dionex, a California manufacturer of chromatography systems. The $2.1 billion price represented a 21 percent premium to Dionex's stock price.
d) Ahura Scientific, a Wilmington-based scientific toolmaker in a move to boost its analytical equipment operations.
4) Verizon Acquired: Burlington-based CloudSwitch, a three-year-old company that helps its customers run existing enterprise applications using cloud-based services, with high levels of security
5) Northeast Utilities (NU) of Hartford Ct. is acquiring (essentially a merger of equals) Boston-bases NSTAR -- the surviving company will be NU with NSTAR's Tom May as the boss of one of the nation’s largest utility companies.
6) Skyworks Solutions (Woburn), a leading semiconductor supplier for wireless communications bought:
a) SiGe Semiconductor (Andover), a leading global supplier of RF front-end solutions for wireless multimedia across a wide range of applications. The acquisition complements Skyworks' leadership in wide area front-end solutions by adding SiGe's innovative short range, silicon-based products
b) fellow chip maker Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc (Santa Clara, Calif) in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $262.5 million.
7) Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. (Gloucester) Acquired by: Applied Materials Inc. (San Jose) Price: $4.9 billion -- Applied Materials Inc., the world’s largest maker of semiconductor fabrication equipment. Varian will continue to exist in Gloucester after the deal is completed but Applied Materials will consolidate offices outside of Massachusetts.
8) Watts Water Technologies Inc.(North Andover) manufactures products to control the efficiency, safety, and quality of water acquires Danfoss Socla S.A.S., a European company, for approximately $175.7 million.
9) Where Inc. (Boston) specializes in location media technology along with an application that gives people personalized deals and recommendations -- Acquired by: PayPal, a division of eBay Inc., PayPal plans to integrate its software into the Where mobile app. It is also expected that Where will be adding more employees to its Boston office.
10) ITA Software Inc. travel software Acquired by: Google Inc -- US Justice Department requiring Google to keep licensing ITA's software and to set up firewalls that would prevent the company from obtaining information collected by ITA's customers.
11) EMC Corp.(Hopkinton) data storage bought:
a) NetWitness Corp. a Virginia company that provides network security analysis solutions. NetWitness will now operate as part of RSA, EMC's security division, but will not have any effect on revenue or earnings for the company.
b) made a big bet on "big data" by agreeing to make a $2.25 billion cash purchase of Isilon Systems Inc., a Seattle firm that builds relatively low-cost systems for storing immense amounts of information.
12) BioVex Group Inc. (Woburn) cancer vaccine maker Acquired by: Amgen the world's largest biotechnology company, which runs a 1,000-person drug manufacturing site in West Greenwich, R.I., and Cambridge drug discover lab.
13) Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge and Boston) Acquired by: French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA for $20 billion, pricing the company's shares at $74 each
14) Novell (Waltham & Utah) Acquired by Seatlle-based Attachmate Corp. for $2.2 billion, including $450 million from a group that includes computer giant Microsoft Corp.
15) Art Technology Group (Cambridge) acquired by: Oracle for $1 billion ATG provides e-commerce software to about 1,000 customers, including giant firms like AT&T Inc. and retailers such as Best Buy Inc. and J.C. Penney Company Inc
16) Bain Capital (Boston) bought for $1.8 billion in cash Gymboree, a public San Fransisco children's clothing retailer and play center operator.
17) Netezza Corp.(Marlborough) Acquired by: IBM for $1.7 billion -- IBM's fourth Bay State acquisition in 2010 alone.
18) Conduit Labs (Cambridge) Acquired by: Zynga Game Network Inc.
Zynga, which makes six of the 10 most popular Facebook applications, renamed the Cambridge video game maker Zynga Boston. Both companies base games on a use a “free-to-play’’ format, in which gamers play for free, but can choose to purchase credits for extra powers or tools.
19) Interactive Data Bedford financial information company (with operational center in Boxborough) Acquired by: Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus for $3.4 billion
20) Millipore Billerica biotech equipment maker target of a takeover bid by Thermo Fisher, but instead put itself up for auction, paving the way for Germany's Merck KGaA to make a hefty cash offer. $6 billion
21) AMG -- Beverly-based Affiliated Managers Group, an investment management firm bought London's Pantheon Ventures, an equity fund manager for: $775 million
22) State Street bought:
a) Intesa Sanpaolo's securities group for $1.9 billion-- the securities wing of one of Italy's largest banks in an effort to bolster its European presence
b) Mourant International Finance Administration, a Channel Islands-based company, for $900 million earlier in the same month.
23) 3com (Marlbrogh) Acquired by: Hewlett-Packard for $2.7 billion to challenge rival Cisco Systems for the network market.
24) Starent Networks Tewksbury-based maker of multimedia networking equipment for mobile phones Acquired by: Cisco Systems for $2.9 billion
25) http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2012/03/01/boston-biomedical-acquired.html
Japanese pharma to buy Boston Biomedical for up to $2.6B (update)
Boston Business Journal by Julie M. Donnelly, Reporter
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 11:00am EST
And - So it Goes -- Buying and Selling -- some local companies grow by acquisition and some grow by being acquired by bigger companies with deeper pockets -- these deals are not the traditional two super markets merging or a roll-up of some small manufacture ring companies -- what's being bought and sold is the currency of the Knowledge Economy - and both ways -- we as the Hub of the KE are the Winners
Atlantad -- what about Legal Seafoods -- clearly its Nationally known as the chowder has been served at the White House for big time dinners?
What about Vertex Pharma -- expanding, moving to Boston from Cambridge, certainly nationally known because of all the PR "largest private sector construction project underway", etc.
There are quite a few companies that could have made the list.
I picked mostly the not-for profits -- because outside of their status with the IRS they are corporations with well paid employees, physical plant, customers, advertising -- just about what any for profit corporation has and has to do
As for buying and selling in/out -- there are Boston (Greater Boston generally) companies buying others outside of the area. There are outside companies, both US and other who have seen value and are buying into Boston area. I don't find either to be exceptional -- it's just business
Recently for example the following M&A involved local companies (courtesy of Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/massachusettsmergers?pg=16
1) Amazon bought Kiva Systems (Reading) to get involved in robotics for fulfillment
2) PerkinElmer Inc. (Waltham) bought:
a) Caliper Life Sciences Inc. (Hopkinton). Caliper sells a suite of molecular imaging and detection technologies that complement PerkinElmer’s products and services.
b) P&E made seven smaller acquisitions this year as the global life sciences sector consolidates -- including Labtronics Inc., a Canadian company that provides electronic laboratory notebook services in order to extend its data integration software offerings to its laboratory customers
3) P&E's Waltham neighbor Thermo-Fisher bought:
a) Phadia, a Swedish firm for $3.5 billion in cash -- specializes in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics
b) Sterilin Ltd. a British company that provides single-use plastic products.
c) Dionex, a California manufacturer of chromatography systems. The $2.1 billion price represented a 21 percent premium to Dionex's stock price.
d) Ahura Scientific, a Wilmington-based scientific toolmaker in a move to boost its analytical equipment operations.
4) Verizon Acquired: Burlington-based CloudSwitch, a three-year-old company that helps its customers run existing enterprise applications using cloud-based services, with high levels of security
5) Northeast Utilities (NU) of Hartford Ct. is acquiring (essentially a merger of equals) Boston-bases NSTAR -- the surviving company will be NU with NSTAR's Tom May as the boss of one of the nation’s largest utility companies.
6) Skyworks Solutions (Woburn), a leading semiconductor supplier for wireless communications bought:
a) SiGe Semiconductor (Andover), a leading global supplier of RF front-end solutions for wireless multimedia across a wide range of applications. The acquisition complements Skyworks' leadership in wide area front-end solutions by adding SiGe's innovative short range, silicon-based products
b) fellow chip maker Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc (Santa Clara, Calif) in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $262.5 million.
7) Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. (Gloucester) Acquired by: Applied Materials Inc. (San Jose) Price: $4.9 billion -- Applied Materials Inc., the world’s largest maker of semiconductor fabrication equipment. Varian will continue to exist in Gloucester after the deal is completed but Applied Materials will consolidate offices outside of Massachusetts.
8) Watts Water Technologies Inc.(North Andover) manufactures products to control the efficiency, safety, and quality of water acquires Danfoss Socla S.A.S., a European company, for approximately $175.7 million.
9) Where Inc. (Boston) specializes in location media technology along with an application that gives people personalized deals and recommendations -- Acquired by: PayPal, a division of eBay Inc., PayPal plans to integrate its software into the Where mobile app. It is also expected that Where will be adding more employees to its Boston office.
10) ITA Software Inc. travel software Acquired by: Google Inc -- US Justice Department requiring Google to keep licensing ITA's software and to set up firewalls that would prevent the company from obtaining information collected by ITA's customers.
11) EMC Corp.(Hopkinton) data storage bought:
a) NetWitness Corp. a Virginia company that provides network security analysis solutions. NetWitness will now operate as part of RSA, EMC's security division, but will not have any effect on revenue or earnings for the company.
b) made a big bet on "big data" by agreeing to make a $2.25 billion cash purchase of Isilon Systems Inc., a Seattle firm that builds relatively low-cost systems for storing immense amounts of information.
12) BioVex Group Inc. (Woburn) cancer vaccine maker Acquired by: Amgen the world's largest biotechnology company, which runs a 1,000-person drug manufacturing site in West Greenwich, R.I., and Cambridge drug discover lab.
13) Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge and Boston) Acquired by: French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA for $20 billion, pricing the company's shares at $74 each
14) Novell (Waltham & Utah) Acquired by Seatlle-based Attachmate Corp. for $2.2 billion, including $450 million from a group that includes computer giant Microsoft Corp.
15) Art Technology Group (Cambridge) acquired by: Oracle for $1 billion ATG provides e-commerce software to about 1,000 customers, including giant firms like AT&T Inc. and retailers such as Best Buy Inc. and J.C. Penney Company Inc
16) Bain Capital (Boston) bought for $1.8 billion in cash Gymboree, a public San Fransisco children's clothing retailer and play center operator.
17) Netezza Corp.(Marlborough) Acquired by: IBM for $1.7 billion -- IBM's fourth Bay State acquisition in 2010 alone.
18) Conduit Labs (Cambridge) Acquired by: Zynga Game Network Inc.
Zynga, which makes six of the 10 most popular Facebook applications, renamed the Cambridge video game maker Zynga Boston. Both companies base games on a use a “free-to-play’’ format, in which gamers play for free, but can choose to purchase credits for extra powers or tools.
19) Interactive Data Bedford financial information company (with operational center in Boxborough) Acquired by: Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus for $3.4 billion
20) Millipore Billerica biotech equipment maker target of a takeover bid by Thermo Fisher, but instead put itself up for auction, paving the way for Germany's Merck KGaA to make a hefty cash offer. $6 billion
21) AMG -- Beverly-based Affiliated Managers Group, an investment management firm bought London's Pantheon Ventures, an equity fund manager for: $775 million
22) State Street bought:
a) Intesa Sanpaolo's securities group for $1.9 billion-- the securities wing of one of Italy's largest banks in an effort to bolster its European presence
b) Mourant International Finance Administration, a Channel Islands-based company, for $900 million earlier in the same month.
23) 3com (Marlbrogh) Acquired by: Hewlett-Packard for $2.7 billion to challenge rival Cisco Systems for the network market.
24) Starent Networks Tewksbury-based maker of multimedia networking equipment for mobile phones Acquired by: Cisco Systems for $2.9 billion
25) http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2012/03/01/boston-biomedical-acquired.html
Japanese pharma to buy Boston Biomedical for up to $2.6B (update)
Boston Business Journal by Julie M. Donnelly, Reporter
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 11:00am EST
And - So it Goes -- Buying and Selling -- some local companies grow by acquisition and some grow by being acquired by bigger companies with deeper pockets -- these deals are not the traditional two super markets merging or a roll-up of some small manufacture ring companies -- what's being bought and sold is the currency of the Knowledge Economy - and both ways -- we as the Hub of the KE are the Winners
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WOW! Thanks for all that!
Let me rephrase my original comment....Congratulations to New Balance for expanding your presence in the great city of Boston, your hometown!!
WOW! Thanks for all that!
Let me rephrase my original comment....Congratulations to New Balance for expanding your presence in the great city of Boston, your hometown!!
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Cue the wikipedia list of people who count Boston as their hometown.
WOW! Thanks for all that!
Let me rephrase my original comment....Congratulations to New Balance for expanding your presence in the great city of Boston, your hometown!!
Cue the wikipedia list of people who count Boston as their hometown.
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^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Boston
^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Boston
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All we need say is that Boston's finest is still Ben Franklin -- and Philly can't take that away from us!
All we need say is that Boston's finest is still Ben Franklin -- and Philly can't take that away from us!
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http://suffolkjournal.net/2012/04/suffolk-university-looking-into-new-athletic-facilities/
http://suffolkjournal.net/2012/04/suffolk-university-looking-into-new-athletic-facilities/
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Here comes lots of rendering and floor plan porn, all taken from the project notification form: http://bostonredevelopmentauthority...Brighton Landing/New Brighton Landing_PNF.pdf
Basement level:
Ground level:
Mezzanine:
Terrace level (the podium from which the towers will rise):
Landscaping:
Second floor:
Third and fourth floor:
Fifth floor:
Sixth floor:
Sections:
North elevations:
East elevation:
South:
And west:
Here comes lots of rendering and floor plan porn, all taken from the project notification form: http://bostonredevelopmentauthority...Brighton Landing/New Brighton Landing_PNF.pdf
Basement level:
Ground level:
Mezzanine:
Terrace level (the podium from which the towers will rise):
Landscaping:
Second floor:
Third and fourth floor:
Fifth floor:
Sixth floor:
Sections:
North elevations:
East elevation:
South:
And west:
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Thanks so much for pulling all of these!
The scope/scale of this project is just incredible. Only thing that caught my eye was the large amount of above-ground parking on the ground and mezzanine floor. The parking should all be underground and let the public get to experience the parks (at the ground level) freely instead of privatizing them completely by raising them up. This is just like the issue with the Cambridge Center garage roof garden.
Thanks so much for pulling all of these!
The scope/scale of this project is just incredible. Only thing that caught my eye was the large amount of above-ground parking on the ground and mezzanine floor. The parking should all be underground and let the public get to experience the parks (at the ground level) freely instead of privatizing them completely by raising them up. This is just like the issue with the Cambridge Center garage roof garden.
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But by putting those parks up on a podium we get both parks (lots and lots of them) AND street-level retail, which in theory will make for a more active streetscape. The setup is a total bastard child of today's planning versus yesterday's, but short of advocating for Fort Point-style shoulder-to-shoulder buildings (which won't happen here in a million years) I'm having a hard time thinking of a better layout.
But by putting those parks up on a podium we get both parks (lots and lots of them) AND street-level retail, which in theory will make for a more active streetscape. The setup is a total bastard child of today's planning versus yesterday's, but short of advocating for Fort Point-style shoulder-to-shoulder buildings (which won't happen here in a million years) I'm having a hard time thinking of a better layout.
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Street-level retail (featuring an urban streetwall) and parks can coexist. The park can be behind the retail. NYC recently did this with their Stuyvesant Town housing project from the 60s (that looked a lot like the Alice Taylor Apartments haphazardly thrown onto a green pasture). They filled in the spaces between the off-grid buildings and created a vibrant urban streetwall with retail and let park space exist behind it.
Street-level retail (featuring an urban streetwall) and parks can coexist. The park can be behind the retail. NYC recently did this with their Stuyvesant Town housing project from the 60s (that looked a lot like the Alice Taylor Apartments haphazardly thrown onto a green pasture). They filled in the spaces between the off-grid buildings and created a vibrant urban streetwall with retail and let park space exist behind it.
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My idea for a street grid in the area:
Murdock and Dustin Streets are pushed through, requiring the demolition of the self storage building (no loss there) and one house on the current Hitchborn Street.
Life street is discontinued in favor of an extended Etna Street (same path essentially).
Braintree Street is extended to intersect with an extended Guest Street to form a true square with the newly extended Murdock and Dustin Streets. Both of the intersections have pocket parks as features.
Ignore the north side of the site, it is based off my whimsical dreaming of the pike being put below grade. This would allow Lincoln Street to be made into a boulevard extension of Notantum Road, and open up development rights above the tracks and pike.
What I like about my plan is it is more overreaching and connects more parts of the area than the constraints of the New Balance project. An All/Bright 100 Acres Plan if you will. This new dense grid would also demand the buildings to come right up to the sidewalk. They could still put a few parks in there as well, they should just have better defined boarders.
There's a lot of other stuff going on here too that's part of my massive sketchup overlay plan of most of Allston. If anyone's interested I can send them the file.
My idea for a street grid in the area:
Murdock and Dustin Streets are pushed through, requiring the demolition of the self storage building (no loss there) and one house on the current Hitchborn Street.
Life street is discontinued in favor of an extended Etna Street (same path essentially).
Braintree Street is extended to intersect with an extended Guest Street to form a true square with the newly extended Murdock and Dustin Streets. Both of the intersections have pocket parks as features.
Ignore the north side of the site, it is based off my whimsical dreaming of the pike being put below grade. This would allow Lincoln Street to be made into a boulevard extension of Notantum Road, and open up development rights above the tracks and pike.
What I like about my plan is it is more overreaching and connects more parts of the area than the constraints of the New Balance project. An All/Bright 100 Acres Plan if you will. This new dense grid would also demand the buildings to come right up to the sidewalk. They could still put a few parks in there as well, they should just have better defined boarders.
There's a lot of other stuff going on here too that's part of my massive sketchup overlay plan of most of Allston. If anyone's interested I can send them the file.
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Several comments based on a quick glance at the PNF.
380,000 square feet of the project will be below grade. That's about the equivalent of nine acres.
The sports complex will include a NHL regulation hockey rink, plus an indoor track. Directly across the Pike, the Boston Skating Club will be building an ice rink complex, with three rinks. IIRC, one of these will be devoted exclusively to ice hockey.
IMO, the NHL-size rink will become a practice facility for the Bruins. Note also that the New Balance complex will have a sports medicine area.
Rather surprised there's no basketball court(s).
Several comments based on a quick glance at the PNF.
380,000 square feet of the project will be below grade. That's about the equivalent of nine acres.
The sports complex will include a NHL regulation hockey rink, plus an indoor track. Directly across the Pike, the Boston Skating Club will be building an ice rink complex, with three rinks. IIRC, one of these will be devoted exclusively to ice hockey.
IMO, the NHL-size rink will become a practice facility for the Bruins. Note also that the New Balance complex will have a sports medicine area.
Rather surprised there's no basketball court(s).