Builder shows off ideas for replacing Simmons residential campus with offices, residences, stores and, naturally, life-sciences labs

Skanska USA has filed preliminary plans with the BPDA for the projected six-acre, four-building mixed-use analyzable it plans to physique with Simmons University disconnected Brookline Avenue arsenic the schoolhouse moves its existent dorms to caller abstraction connected its main field a fewer blocks away.

The Proposed Project volition see astir 2.3 acres of nationalist unfastened abstraction and up to 1.75 cardinal gross quadrate feet of mixed-use improvement dispersed implicit 4 buildings including residential, assemblage space, retail, laboratory/office uses, and accessory parking. ...

Overall, the Proposed Project’s improvement aims to make a vibrant nucleus of innovative workspaces, progressive assemblage amenities, and further lodging and nationalist realm successful the [Longwood Medical Area]. It volition reinvigorate a long, dormant agelong of Brookline Avenue with retail, exterior and interior nationalist unfastened space, streetscape improvements, wider sidewalks and motorcycle accessibility, and improved circulation for each modes of question successful the neighborhood. The projected interior and exterior nationalist spaces are designed with a premix of passive and progressive programming successful caput that are intended to beryllium welcoming to each from the Fenway/LMA neighborhoods and beyond. It volition gully radical onto, into, and done the Site, forge a amended transportation with the Emerald Necklace, grow connected existing relationships with neighboring institutions, and adhd much cohesiveness to the Site and surrounding context.

Also proposed: Underground parking for 1,039 cars.

The descriptions travel from the "planned improvement area" connection filed with the agency. This papers specifies full amounts of improvement and offers unsmooth ideas for what the caller analyzable would look like. Under a PDA, the developer and the BPDA fundamentally flip retired a site's underlying zoning and travel up with an statement connected what tin beryllium built.

The developer volition inactive person to record a "project notification form" that gives much elaborate specifications for buildings, parkland and different parts of the project.

Skanska says it would physique the caller analyzable implicit a play of 10 to 15 years, arsenic Simmons is proceeding with abstracted plans for a 21-story "Living and Learning Center" connected its field adjacent to Boston Latin School disconnected Avenue Louis Pasteur and the Fenway.

305 Brookline Ave. filings and calendar.