Here’s a look at Boston from the top of Millennium Tower
The Millennium Tower in Downtown Crossing is set to be the tallest building in Boston in 40 years and will be filled with luxury apartments.
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new addition to the Boston skyline.
The Millennium Tower in Downtown Crossing will take a little over three years to build, which is faster than it took for the Prudential Center and the Hancock Tower to be constructed, according to The Boston Globe. It broke ground in 2013 and is expected to be completed in 2016.
As the tallest residential building in the city, the Millennium Tower will rise up to 685 feet.
The project superintendent, Rich Michaels, told the Globe the process to build is a “vertical assembly line,’’ as “lower floors are finished before the upper ones are enclosed.’’
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Take a look at Boston from the top of Millennium Tower:
Millenium Tower will have 442 luxury residences and as of March, 70 percent of them had already been sold.
“Nobody in the city has ever done anything like this this quickly,’’ Angus Leary, Northeast regional president for Suffolk Construction, the Millennium’s contractor, told the Globe. “The lessons we’re learning here will carry forward to other projects.’’
Read the entire Boston Globe article here.
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