Developer hopes to revamp Mass and Cass with life-sciences building

City Realty this week filed its ceremonial plans for an 11-story, $207-million life-sciences gathering astatine 17 Bradston St., astatine the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

In summation to being astatine the epicenter of the city's opioid and homelessness crisis, the 1.1-acre tract is besides wrong walking region of Boston Medical Center, the BU Medical School and BU's biolab probe center. It would besides beryllium adjacent the caller location of the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, with which the institution says it is successful talks "to make a beingness subject workforce grooming space" for institute students.

City Realty, which has rapidly grown from being a developer of tiny flat buildings to a institution moving overmuch larger projects, says its extremity erstwhile "conceptualizing this project""

Was to revitalize the vicinity by replacing the existing outdated buildings with a caller state-of-the-art gathering that volition incorporated champion practices successful vigor ratio and clime resiliency to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. The building’s welcoming plan and nationalist realm improvements volition make a welcoming beingness astatine the gateway to the Newmarket neighborhood.

This task embodies economical development, placemaking and societal stabilization. Its commercialized components volition lend to the existing concern quality of this country of Boston and its innovative, multi-user designed wrapped successful elegant architecture offers a exemplary to flexible workspaces of tomorrow.

The developer adds:

The Project is being designed with flexible programming abstraction with a absorption connected attracting tenants successful aggregate sectors including healthcare support, offices, pharmaceutical backmost of location operations, probe and development, precocious manufacturing, and section partnerships.

In summation to that abstraction and the Benjamin Franklin space, the gathering would besides person 7,265 quadrate feet of abstraction "targeted astatine uses which person been identified arsenic at-risk" successful the Newmarket area.

The gathering would regenerate a three-story bureau building, a erstwhile fast-food edifice present serving arsenic a religion and a parking lot. The caller gathering would person astir 204 parking spaces successful an underground garage.

17 Bradston St. filings and calendar.