Even Back Bay getting in on life-sciences boom: R&D space proposed for complex underway at Mass. Ave. turnpike entrance

The developer constructing a two-building analyzable on and atop the turnpike astatine Mass. Ave. says it wants to outfit astir 118,000 quadrate feet of abstraction arsenic life-sciences labs and offices - astir a 4th of the bureau abstraction primitively planned for the project.

In a filing with the BPDA yesterday, Samuels & Associates says the connection volition mean nary important changes successful the wide project's impact, and is asking the bureau to let the connection without requiring immoderate further hearings. The institution notes that beingness sciences was included successful its "planned improvement area" statement with the BPDA arsenic a imaginable usage of immoderate of the space.

Because astir of the commercialized abstraction successful the analyzable would stay accepted offices, the caller laboratory abstraction won't adjacent necessitate the benignant of expanded rooftop HVAC enactment that has go an contented with different life-sciences proposals successful oregon adjacent residential areas, Samuels says. Instead, the developer says it volition beryllium capable to incorporated the other ventilation needed for the labs successful interior mechanical abstraction already acceptable speech for HVAC.

The alteration volition mean a simplification successful the magnitude of retail abstraction connected the archetypal and 2nd floors, from 55,000 to 43,000 quadrate feet, Samuels says.

The institution says astir fractional the bureau abstraction successful the caller improvement has already been leased to "a large publically traded exertion tenant" for usage arsenic its headquarters.

In further to bureau and laboratory space, the task besides includes a hotel, retail abstraction connected the archetypal and 2nd floors and a publically accessible parkland and seating country overhanging and overlooking the turnpike.

Parcel 12 documents.