Boston Globe CEO blasts report on HQ sites
Saturday, November 15, 2014
By: Owen Boss
The Boston Globe’s chief executive is slamming what he claims is an “erroneous and irresponsible” report that suggests the broadsheet has narrowed its search for a new corporate headquarters to three locations in Charlestown and the Fenway.
“It’s very premature and it is erroneous and irresponsible,” Globe CEO Mike Sheehan told the Herald last night. “If you work at the Globe and you read that, it could mean a big change in your life ... Most of it is just grossly incorrect.”
The report published online yesterday, which cited local real estate sources, said the Globe is looking at two possible sites in Charlestown and a third in the Fenway as it prepares to sell and move out of its Morrissey Boulevard headquarters.
“We have issued RFPs to 25 different properties all across Boston, but concentrated in the Seaport, the Financial District, Back Bay, Fenway, and North Station,” Sheehan said in a memo sent to employees yesterday.
“We are currently in receipt of 15 proposals, with more to come. We have not even begun the process of evaluating the proposals or identifying the particular neighborhood or location.”
The Globe earlier this month said it was still completing a purchase-and-sale agreement with Winstanley Enterprises, a Concord real estate firm, which has plans for mixed uses on the company’s 16.5-acre site in Dorchester.
Sheehan has said the Globe is likely to move out of its 815,000-square-foot building at the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017.
