With a ‘great hall’ for the Seaport, a developer aims to create a truly public destination
Boston Global Investors is finalizing financing and plans to break ground at year's end on a 17-story tower at 401 Congress St.
The Seaport District has a lot of office buildings. It does not have a lot of great public spaces, the sort of places where anyone can go and feel welcome.
But the developer of one of the next office buildings to go up in the booming business district is gearing up to create one.
Boston Global Investors is finalizing financing and plans to break ground at the end of the year on a 17-story tower at 401 Congress St., a parking lot tucked between the Seaport Hotel and the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
The upper floors will be the kind of state-of-the-art lab and office space that companies flocking to the Seaport have come to expect. The building’s base will feature something unusual: a two-story “great hall” connecting Congress Street and the elevated World Trade Center Avenue. It would be open to the public 24/7 and be located alongside new parks and plazas above the tangle of the Massachusetts Turnpike offramps below.
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