Developer plans to replace old Simmons dorms with residential units, office space, stores and, of course, life-sciences labs

Skanska USA told the BPDA contiguous it volition soon record plans for a six-acre mixed usage improvement along Brookline Avenue to regenerate the dorms that Simmons University is readying to determination into a caller 18-story tower connected its main field a fewer blocks away.

In a missive of intent, Skanska says it's readying 1.75 cardinal quadrate feet of improvement connected the onshore - with 2.3 acres acceptable speech for caller nationalist unfastened abstraction - with a extremity to "reinvigorate a agelong dormant gated disconnected agelong of Brookline Avenue."

305 Brookline Ave. filings and calendar.