No kidding, developer swears: This time they're really going to start work on new Boylston Street building where Shreve Crump and Low used to be

The Zoning Board of Appeal contiguous gave the Druker Co. until December of 2023 to statesman existent operation of a nine-story gathering astatine the country of Boylston and Arlington streets, much than 12 years aft it archetypal filed for permission.

The committee said this is the past extension it volition assistance for the project, which the institution says has been delayed by the Great Recession and past the pandemic, successful a mode that different ample projects successful Boston person not been.

" We're precise close, we're precise excited to start," Druker lawyer Adam Hundley of Goulston & Storrs told the board, adding the institution is present successful the process of applying for the past ISD permits it needs to statesman tearing down the existent buildings and putting up the caller glass-facade gathering that would person ground-floor retail abstraction topped by 8 floors of accepted bureau space. "We are moving rapidly and hoping to commencement soon."

The committee primitively projected extending the project's zoning permissions until conscionable March, but Hundley asked for a fewer much months, conscionable successful case. "As a lawyer I'm disquieted astir the what-ifs," Hundley said. "Having conscionable 4 oregon 5 months would interest me."

Board Chairwoman Christine Araujo told Hundley she knows Goulston & Storrs is "pretty adept successful the permitting processes," truthful she said she hoped Hundley would enactment a enactment successful the firm's record connected the task that it won't beryllium getting immoderate much extensions.

350 Boylston St. filings.