New owner of Fort Point office building seeks to turn it into life-sciences space; says it will monitor social media for any incorrect statements about its plans

GI Partners, a San Francisco-based equity firm, has filed plans with the BPDA to person the nine-story 51 Melcher St. into life-sciences space.

In September, GI precocious paid $74.6 million for the building, which went up successful 1915 arsenic portion of the Boston Wharf Co.'s redevelopment of the area, It bought the gathering from an LLC that paid $52.8 cardinal for the gathering successful 2014.

GI says it volition permission the building's historical extracurricular the same, but volition extensively renovate the interior - which was renovated successful 2011 - to accommodate life-sciences labs and related offices. This volition see installation of a caller HVAC strategy to grip the accrued demands of biotech enactment for ventilation.

Much of that enactment tin beryllium accommodated done HVAC units connected each level - with louvered ventilation outlets lone disposable from Necco Court - reducing the magnitude of noise-generating instrumentality connected the roof, the institution says. Rooftop HVAC systems connected life-sciences buildings have go an contented successful South Boston.

Unusual for a improvement filing, GI includes a social-media argumentation successful its task notification form:

We volition show the societal media astir the Project and close misinformation.

The monitoring is portion of an wide "public outreach strategy" to pass neighbors astir what truly happens wrong life-sciences buildings that volition see "consistent, meaningful, and applicable interaction" with "local assemblage groups, residents, artists and businesses" - arsenic good arsenic monitoring what they accidental online.

GI says it hopes to statesman 9 to 12 months of renovation enactment successful mid-2022.

51 Melcher St. filings and calendar.