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The State, through its MassDOT transportation agency, is currently considering two final proposals for designation at Parcel 9 along the Greenway near Haymarket. Blackstone Market (Cresset Group & DeNormandie Cos.) – 70 rental housing units, 9 stories high, at North Street with up to 3 restaurants on second floor, community room, a first floor retail [...]
Video: Two final presentations for the Greenway / Central Artery Parcel 9 at public meeting hosted by property owner Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) on March 20, 2013 at Mariner’s House in Boston’s North End. Presenting are (1) Blackstone Market by Cresset Group / DeNormandie Cos. and (2) Haymarket Square by Normandy Partners / Jones [...]
Putting the final nail in the coffin of a Boston Museum, the non-profit group behind the proposed contemporary history museum has decided to disband, according to a report by Thomas Grillo in the Boston Business Journal. “We’ve given up the ghost,” said Frank Keefe, the museum’s CEO, who was emotional over the decision. “The board [...]
MassDOT , the State’s transportation agency, wants to know what promises the final two bidders for the Parcel 9 development have made to the Haymarket Pushcart Association (HPA). The HPA is an important part of the development’s prospects because its operations are literally in and around the Greenway parcel. In letters sent out this week [...]
The Haymarket Pushcart Association has responded to a request from MassDOT regarding the pending designation for the Parcel 9 development along the Greenway. The HPA has come out strongly in support of the Cresset / DeNormandie’s Blackstone Market proposal and against Normandy Partners’ Haymarket Square Hotel. December 23, 2012 Roy Avellaneda, Real Estate Project Manager [...]
The following is a shared letter exchange regarding the final Parcel 9 development designation between Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Secretary & CEO Richard Davey and Mr. Frederick A. (Tad) Stahl, FAIA of the Beacon Hill Civic Association and a member of the Parcel 7 & 9 Advisory Committee. Several previous comment letters can be [...]
In a landslide of comment and recommendation letters for the final Parcel 9 designation, Cresset / DeNormandie’s Blackstone Market proposal gained broad support from a myriad of community and business interests against Normandy Partners’ Haymarket Square Hotel. Perhaps most notably, the Haymarket Pushcart Association has come out strongly against a hotel at the site. Parcel [...]
Two of the four original bidders for the Parcel 9 development project will move forward to a Best and Final Offer round, including: Haymarket Square Hotel (Normandy Partners) – 180-room hotel with 2-story public winter garden, a ground market, pushcart and retail space, top floor restaurant and rooftop garden. (Presentation & Video) Blackstone Market (Cresset [...]
In the closest 4-option poll we have ever had , the results are too close to call among the Parcel 9 development proposals currently under consideration by the Mass. Department of Transportation. With a total of 82 votes, Market Square by Upton + Partners slightly edged out the others with 29% of the vote, followed [...]
The neighborhood groups are leaning toward Upton + Partners residences, the Haymarket Pushcart Association favors Blackstone Market mixed-use, the Boston Globe is holding the torch for the Boston Museum and Normandy Partners’ hotel plan is caught in the middle. The proposals are out, the presentations are done and the Mass. Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will soon [...]
In a strongly worded recommendation, the Haymarket Pushcart Association (HPA) has come out firmly behind the “Blackstone Market” proposal by the Cresset Group and DeNormandie Companies for the Parcel 9 development project along the Greenway. The members of the HPA – themselves representing nationalities and languages from all over the globe – are proud of [...]
The comments are “in” regarding the four proposed developments for Parcel 9 and there appears to be a broad, but not exclusive, edge of support given to the “Market Square” rental housing and “Eataly” concept proposed by Upton + Partners. The upper levels of “Market Square” include residential rental units with the lower section focusing [...]
If Public Markets are ever created at Haymarket — in the multi-million dollar white elephant Big Dig ventilation building (Parcel 7) or in a future building on Parcel 9 — the big winner could be the Haymarket pushcarts. That’s because the public markets might introduce countless new customers to the tremendous variety and values offered by the pushcarts. And they are no [...]
Upton + Partners presented its project proposal to MassDOT and the Parcel 9 RFP Committee members this week. The proposal includes a 119 new residential units and a specialty food market on the ground floor. The developer will contribute $2.1 million of public improvements to benefit the Haymarket Pushcart Association and will solicit $1.5 million [...]
An advisory from MassDOT: MassDOT will be accepting public comment on the four proposals it received Parcel 9 in the North End of Boston. The 30-day public comment period starts May 3, 2012 and goes to June 3, 2012. Parcel 9 is located between the John Fitzgerald Surface Road and Blackstone Street in Boston’s North [...]
Normandy Partners, in cooperation with Jones Lang LaSalle, presented its project proposal to MassDOT and the Parcel 9 RFP Committee members. The $60 million proposal includes a 180-room hotel, 2-story public “Winter Garden” lobby, community meeting space, public restrooms, Blackstone St. improvements, a “Haymarket Square” through-block connection to the Greenway and a ground floor market. [...]
DeNormandie Companies and Cresset Group presented “Blackstone Market,” its project proposal to MassDOT and the Parcel 9 RFP Committee members. Conceived as part of the Market District, Blackstone Market will have restaurants, a rooftop farm and 50 residential units. The presentation took place on April 25, 2012 at the Nazzaro Community Center in the North [...]
Boston Museum presented its project proposal to MassDOT and the Parcel 9 RFP Committee members last night. The non-profit organization is proposing to develop a cultural/civic institution of Boston history at Parcel 9 along the Greenway. The presentation took place on April 25, 2012 at the Nazzaro Community Center in the North End. The video [...]
Massachusetts Department of Transportation invites you to Public Information Meetings Parcel 9 RFP Developer Presentations Wednesday April 25th – 6pm Nazzaro Community Center 30 North Bennet St Tuesday May 1st – 6pm Mariner’s House 11 North Square Developers who responded to the MassDOT Parcel 9 Request for Proposals will present their proposed projects to the [...]
Following this week’s designation of Parcel 7 to the sole bidder, Boston Public Market Association, the adjacent Greenway Parcel 9 now moves into the spotlight. Four bids were submitted to the State’s transportation authority, MassDOT, that owns the parcel. The triangular lot, known as Parcel 9, is adjacent to Haymarket, Blackstone St. and the Rose [...]
Hot on the heels of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Public Food Market at Parcel 7 comes the RFP for the adjacent Parcel 9 development along Blackstone Street, Haymarket and the Greenway.
The Boston Herald’s Tom Grillo is reporting that MassDOT will award the Parcel 9 development at Haymarket/Blackstone St. to Eastat Reality Capital for their residential plan consisting of 78 apartments over a ground market. The site is along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway by the Haymarket pushcarts and Blackstone Street, one of the oldest streets [...]