Here’s a look at the dueling bids to transform a long-empty parcel in Roxbury
For five decades, the property across from Boston Police Department headquarters has been the source of vexation and speculation in City Hall.
Two development teams have bid for the opportunity to transform a long-vacant site in Lower Roxbury that has foiled a number of other development ideas over the years, Catherine Carlock and Jon Chesto of The Boston Globe report.
Two teams — one led by The HYM Investment Group and My City at Peace, and another by Tishman Speyer and the newly formed Ruggles Progressive Partners — have pitched large-scale, mixed-use projects with combinations of housing, labs, and community space on a 7.7-acre site along Tremont Street known as Parcel P3.
For five decades, the property across from Boston Police Department headquarters has been the source of vexation and speculation in City Hall. It originally came under city control in the 1960s because of urban renewal efforts. Plans for the doomed Southwest Expressway tied it up for much of the 1970s. Since then it has been envisioned as a home for everything from affordable housing to a shopping mall to offices for what was then Partners HealthCare to a New England Revolution stadium.
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