New Committee Contemplates Turnpike Air-Rights Parcels
Proposals submitted in 2008 are being re-evaluated for potential development above the Mass Pike.
Seventeen months after developers announced the end of the long-planned never-built Columbus Center project, the Boston Redevelopment Authority is rekindling discussions about potential development above sections of the Massachusetts Turnpike. On Wednesday, a newly appointed Citizens Advisory Committee met for the first time to discuss four air-rights parcels near the intersection of Boylston and Mass Ave. Development proposals for all four parcels were submitted to the BRA in 2008, and held until a committee could be formed to evaluate them. “All of the proposals we received incorporate civic vision,” said BRA Development Director, Peter O’Connor, “which is one of the reasons I’m really going to defer to the CAC for some very necessary …
