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0 Downtown Crossing Grocery Store to Open on April 29th

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Downtown Crossing Boston

Credit: BBJ

On April 29th you will now be able to buy everything from shiitake mushrooms to fresh salmon at Downtown Crossing in Boston.  Roch Bros. Supermarket will be opening their 25,000 square foot store at 8 Summer Street with hours from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 8 a.m. through 9 p.m. on Sundays.

Some background from the Boston Business Journal:

“The store will be the first supermarket in Boston’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood…[and] will employ 70 full-time and more than 200 part-time workers. Larry Baxter, an associate since 1983, will be store manager, while 16-year Roche Bros. veterans Marvin Alvarez and Krystle Bredeson will be assistant managers.“

 

0 Burnham Building in Downtown Crossing: AOL First to Move In

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AOL employees wait to go into the Burnham building in downtown crossing

Credit: Boston Business Journal

The former Filene’s building in downtown Boston has welcomed it first tenant, AOL. AOL moves into the rejuvenated downtown crossing area of Boston and becomes the new building’s flagship name for now.

The Boston Business Journal indicates, “AOL officially became the first tenant to move in to the renovated Burnham Building in Boston’s Downtown Crossing this morning…The New York-based media and tech company moved about 50 employees into sixth floor office space…Next Monday, 600 employees from advertising firm Arnold Worldwide and its sister agency Havas Media will move into about 125,000 square feet of the building, at the corner of Washington and Summer streets.

More information on the Burnham Building’s prospective tenants are available on the BBJ’s website.

0 Burnham Building in Millennium Tower Lands Fashion Retailer

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Burnham office Building at the Millennium Towers Complex

Credit: Banker & Tradesman

Another new lease for the Downtown Crossing, this time its retail.  Headquartered in Dublin Ireland, www.primark.com was founded in 1969 and today operates 250 store in eight countries.

From Banker & Tradesman: “Fashion retailer Primark has signed a long-term lease for 112,000 square feet at the Burnham Building in the Millennium Tower complex at Boston’s Downtown Crossing…Dublin-based Primark’s first U.S. store will occupy four floors in the eight-story Burnham Building, including 70,000 square feet of retail floor space.

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0 BRA: Big Groundbreakings in Boston in 2013

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rendering of Millennium Tower in Boston Seaport neighborhood

Credit: Boston Business Journal

2013 was a big year for construction starts in the city of Boston. Will 2014 be the same as projected? Will construction commence above the Turnpike?

The Boston Business Journal posted a robust review of the top development projects in Boston over the course of the previous year. Among its findings:

One of the biggest events of the year saw construction crews returning to the former Filene’s site in Downtown Crossing…But Filene’s was not the only major development to see construction crews: Across town in Brighton, New Balance began work to convert a previously shuttered manufacturing plant into a new facility; in Westwood, a new team took over the stalled Westwood Station project and now promise to deliver on 2 million feet of mixed-use development along Route 128; in Chinatown, a section of the neighborhood that decades ago was taken to build the Southeast Expressway is now home to construction of a 21-story tower that will provide much needed affordable housing; and in the Seaport District, Skanska got underway with the first office for Seaport Square.

The complete article is available on the BBJ website, here.

0 Arnold Worldwide Considers Relocation To Filene’s Building in Downtown Crossing

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Filenes in downtown crossing boston

Photo Credit: Banker & Tradesman

Will they or won’t they? If Arnold Worldwide takes the plunge, it would be great move for the community; bringing a large workforce to the once famed Burnham building that has been vacant for years. With market rents in the Financial District hovering about 15 – 20 percent below Back Bay, this could create an interesting domino effect.

According to an article on Banker & Tradesman, “a marquee anchor tenant like Arnold for the property known as the Burnham building could be the golden ticket project developer Millennium Partners needs to secure financing and start construction of a 625-foot, 600-unit residential skyscraper adjacent to the Burnham.”