0 Class B Office Space in Downtown Crossing Could Net $50M

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Class B office space at 258-262 Washington St. and 85 Devonshire St. in Downtown Crossing could fetch in excess of $525 PSF. The Class B office market in the Financial District has seen strong rent growth over the last 36 months with prices ranging from the upper $30’s to the upper $40’s PSF.

From the Boston Business Journal:

The buildings together encompass about 92,000 square feet and span the stretch of Water Street between Washington and Devonshire streets near the State Street MBTA stop…Boston-based real estate investment and development firm KS Partners owns the property and has invested more than $5 million in the past three years to help rejuvenate it.

Marketing materials obtained by the Business Journal indicate that the the Washington and Devonshire property is “one of the last Downtown Class B repositioning opportunities” that is “an opportunity to capture momentum” for retail repositioning along Washington Street. The stretch of Washington Street fronts the Freedom Trail and is currently leased by a Subway and a Vitamin Shoppe.

0 Congress Square Project Grows Retail in Boston Financial District

Congress Sq. retail space in Boston financial district

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Related Beal’s Congress Square project will bring “The Block” back to the street.”  This will add a great street scape of retailers to the Congress and State Street interesting section of the Financial District.

Coverage on the BBJ notes, “the mixed-use project will include renovated offices, the addition of ground-floor retail and restaurant space, residential units and a boutique hotel. It’s knit together by a reinvigorated Quaker Lane — currently a rather dark back alley — into what Related Beal hopes will be a destination retail and nightlife location, as well as an improved Washington Street retail corridor.”

More information on the  mixed-use redevelopment project is available on bizjournals.com.