Friday, June 14, 2013
California-based Lyfe Kitchen could soon be opening a franchise (or a few) in Boston.
A California-based company offering healthier fast food options could soon be coming to Boston. Lyfe Kitchen is looking for space in the city’s Downtown Crossing, Seaport District and Faneuil Hall areas in an effort to bring their quick-and-healthy restaurant concept from the West Coast to the East, the Boston Business Journal reports. The company currently has two locations in Culver City and Palo Alto, CA and is looking to expand to 250 restaurants nationwide, according to the BBJ. That could include up to 10 Lyfe Kitchens in the Boston area. Lyfe Kitchen’s menu items are all under 600 calories each, and the company promises “quality food using locally and sustainably sourced ingredients whenever possible,” according to its website, …
Monday, December 17, 2012
The shop will feature a grocery section with sushi chef station, pastry case, adult beverages and more as well as a health and beauty section, all incorporating interactive technologies.
The former Borders building in Downtown Crossing is being renovated into a new kind of Walgreens— one of three flagship stores the company is creating around the country that offer a mix of high-end groceries, adult beverages, beauty products and health needs. On Wednesday, Walgreens representatives offered members of the media a sneak peek at the new building, located at 10-24 School St., at the corner of School and Washington streets. Though the company has already opened similar flagship stores in New York City and Chicago, the Boston site presented a unique opportunity to blend old and new design styles in a building that is itself a mix of time periods. “We respected the fact that this is a modern building attached to a very …
Monday, December 10, 2012
The project will look at sidewalks, roadways, pedestrian zones, signage and retail vendors.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority has selected a firm to develop a streetscape design program for Boston’s Downtown Crossing Business Improvement District. Klopfer Martin Design Group, located at 214 Cambridge St., Boston, was selected from 11 proposals submitted to the BRA for the project. At the [Boston Improvement District’s] Annual Meeting, KMDG presented its long-term vision for sidewalks, roadways, the pedestrian zone, signage, and the vending program, according to a press release posted on the BRA website. “Experts in landscape architecture, wayfinding, urban design, universal design, vending, civil and traffic engineering, and bicycling have been assembled by KMDG to be incorporated into the standards," the release said. Through …
Monday, November 26, 2012
The developer told the Herald he is waiting to see construction begin on the old Filene's property before moving forward with his project.
Plans to build a 28-story apartment and retail tower in the Downtown Crossing area will remain on hold until further progress is made on the former Filene’s Basement site across the way, the Boston Herald reported Monday. Midwood Management President John Usdan told the Herald that the $200 million One Bromfield project was not “viable” yet, despite the fact that another developer had received city approval to develop the Filene’s block. The Bromfield project, initially proposed in 2008, would replace four buildings at Bromfield and Washington streets with about 260 apartment units on top of retail and parking facilities, according to the Herald article. But the project has been on hold since then. Across the way, at One Franklin, New York…
Monday, August 13, 2012
Plan increases residential space and parking but reduces office and retail space.
Let’s start with the good news: Millennium Partners’ latest plan released this week by the Boston Redevelopment Authority shows progress on getting a building constructed in the gaping pit at the heart of Downtown Crossing. Now the bad news: the revision nixes earlier plans to preserve the façade of the 1905 Jones McDuffee and Stratton building on Franklin Street. According to the report, the change would be necessary to support Millenium’s new plan of preserving the remnants of the Burnham Building on the other side of the site as a separate but attached structure. “The base of the new Tower component will not directly abut the Burnham Building, but be set to the corner of Franklin and Washington Streets,” Millennium’s report read. “In …
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Millennium Partners plan to fill in the giant hole in Downtown Crossings with the fourth tallest building in Boston.
After years of inaction, Downtown Crossing's canyon may be filled. The site's new developer has proposed a 606-foot tower for the site, reports the Boston Herald. Millennium Partners detailed a $615 million project to fill in the massive hole that once was a Filene’s department store near Downtown Crossings. The proposed 54-story Millennium Tower will include 500 residential units, 230,000 square feet of retail space, 200,000 square feet of office space and 525 underground parking spots, according to the Boston Business Journal. The living space will be in the tower, while the retail space will occupy the lower levels and the office space will be at the top floors. At 606 feet, the Millennium Tower would be the fourth tallest building in …
Monday, January 2, 2012
Newly-reelected City Council President Stephen Murphy wants the council to pressure owner of the Downtown Crossing hole (where Filene's used to be) to clean up his mess — if he wants to get a casino for Suffolk Downs.
The first City Council meeting of the year was mostly a by-the-numbers affair, with a light agenda of actual decisions to be made. The 2012 City Council, having been sworn-in earlier Monday at Faneuil Hall, did make one decision — they kept City Councilor Stephen Murphy on as president. The vote, which was expected to go Murphy's way, was unanimous. Murphy outlined a few items he'd like the council to go after in 2012. Among them would be using the council to pressure the owner of the giant hole in Downtown Crossing to get it fixed if they expect the city to play ball with them over another property in which they have a 20 percent interest — Suffolk Downs, which could become a lucrative casino. "There are people who want to put a casino …
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Dolores Burton
12:15 pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
I agree that the universities owe the city something -- I don't think mentoring students is enough -- the Boston Public Library needs some expensive software to maintain and manipulate the holdings they are putting on line -- maybe some of the nonprofits can contribute expertise or share relevant software with the library -- Harvard's Medical Library must have some good software, for example. more ›