The plan to build housing and a hotel above the Mass. Pike takes a key step forward
State transportation officials have approved a deal with a Miami-based developer to build housing and a hotel above the Massachusetts Turnpike in the Back Bay, according to The Boston Globe.
The deal gives developer Peebles Corp. the rights to develop the Mass. Avenue-Boylston Street site in exchange for $30.5 million in rent — money that would help finance a new Green Line station to replace the Hynes Convention Center stop, the Globe reported.
Peebles was chosen to develop the site — known as Parcel 13 — earlier this year. It plans to put 173 apartments and condos, a 160-room hotel, retail space, and two public plazas in an 11-story building dubbed The Viola, a nod to neighboring Berklee College of Music.
Peebles will next seek permitting, design approvals, and financing, hoping to start construction in 2019, the Globe reported
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