Brookline Avenue

Brookline Avenue in Longwood Medical Area would get its first pedestrian bridge in plans for new Dana-Farber cancer hospital

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 1:36 pm

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute this week filed a "institutional master plan" for its proposed 14-story hospital where the Joslin Diabetes Center now sits. The 10-year development plan does not have detailed renderings of the new hospital - to be built as part of a new long-term agreement with Beth Israel Medical Center - but it does call for construction of new pedestrian bridges, including one that would span Brookline Avenue from the new building to Dana-Farber's current facilities. Read more.

Car recreates Sox season outside Fenway Park

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 9:13 pm

A Boston Lawyer came across this fully engulfed car on Jersey Street near Brookline Avenue shortly before 6 p.m.

Dana-Farber, Beth Israel fill in some of the details of proposed Longwood cancer hospital

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 11:52 am

Rough sketch of the proposed new cancer hospital

Rough sketch of the proposed new building.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center today filed an "institutional master plan" with details, if not architectural renderings, of their proposed 14-story cancer hospital on what is now the site of the Joslin Diabetes Center. Read more.

Beth Israel, Dana-Farber formally announce plan to move Joslin Diabetes Center to make way for 14-story cancer hospital

By adamg - 10/26/23 - 1:13 pm

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Center wasted no time with their new partnership, yesterday telling the BPDA they will soon file detailed plans for razing the current Joslin Diabetes Center off Brookline Avenue to make way for a new, 14-story cancer hospital. Read more.

Company building up a head of steam for the Fenway

By adamg - 10/16/23 - 10:02 am

Proposed route of new steam pipe across Charlesgate, from Vicinity filing.

Vicinity Energy is planning a half-mile pipe from the Back Bay to the Fenway Park area to provide steam heat to all the new buildings going up or planned on and near Brookline Avenue. Read more.

Man sought for two attacks in Longwood Medical Area

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 9:52 am

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Boston Police have released photos of a man they say physically attacked at least two people in the Longwood Medical Area Tuesday morning. Read more.

Guy wanted for beating up somebody in the Fenway badly enough to put him in the hospital

By adamg - 2/8/23 - 3:09 pm

Surveillance photo via BPD.

Boston Police they're looking for a guy they say beat another man up, sending the victim to the hospital with serious injuries around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, in the area of Game On at Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Street. Read more.

One guess what a developer wants to turn the old Hotel Buckminster into

By adamg - 1/25/23 - 9:30 pm

Hotel Buckminster in 1900, three years after it went up in what would become Kenmore Square. From BPL.

A developer says it will soon file plans to gut Kenmore Square's Hotel Buckminster and turn it into a part of a new life-sciences building next door to the life-sciences-focused Fenway Center complex it's already building. Read more

Fake 'bail bondsmen' in a crappy car sought for scamming another grandpa

By adamg - 9/8/22 - 12:03 pm

Surveillance photo of scammers' Frankencar via BPD.

Boston Police report a second grandfather has been scammed by a bogus "public defender" who convinced him to hand over several thousand dollars to allegedly spring his son from jail where he was supposedly stewing after a car crash that purportedly left a woman seriously injured. Read more.

Shots fired outside Fenway Park on Sunday

By adamg - 6/14/22 - 9:31 am

Surveillance photo via BPD.

Boston Police are looking for a man they say opened fire on Brookline Avenue outside Fenway Park and Game On around 10:10 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

Construction workers puncture gas main at Landmark Center

By adamg - 1/15/22 - 11:39 am

Firefighters at gas-main leak on Brookline Avenue

Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports that workers building the expansion of the former Landmark Center, now known as 401 Park, hit a gas main under 201 Brookline Ave. around 10 a.m. Workers were evacuated and National Grid called in to fix the pipe.

Builder shows off ideas for replacing Simmons residential campus with offices, residences, stores and, naturally, life-sciences labs

By adamg - 1/5/22 - 12:15 pm

Rendering of proposed Brookline Avenue complex

Possible rendering by Sasaki Associates.

Skanska USA has filed preliminary plans with the BPDA for the proposed six-acre, four-building mixed-use complex it plans to build with Simmons University off Brookline Avenue as the school moves its current dorms to new space on its main campus a few blocks away. Read more.

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

By adamg - 11/9/21 - 9:56 pm

Skanska USA told the BPDA today it will soon file plans for a six-acre mixed use development along Brookline Avenue to replace the dorms that Simmons University is planning to move into a new 18-story tower on its main campus a few blocks away. Read more.

Two shot outside Fenway bar

By adamg - 10/29/21 - 8:23 am

Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports two people were shot around 2 a.m. outside Game On at Brookline Avenue and Jersey Street. Read more.

Jersey Street would become a permanent pedestrian mall as part of plans for nearly nine acres of redevelopment around Fenway Park

By adamg - 6/3/21 - 10:54 pm

Bird-enhanced rendering of new building at Brookline Avenue and Jersey Street by Morris Adjmi.

A key player in the development of the Seaport, the Red Sox and the D'Angelo family, which owns stores on Jersey Street across from Fenway Park, today filed plans with the BPDA for a 2.1-million-square-foot redevelopment of several parcels around Fenway that will include residential units, new retail space, offices and, of course, life-sciences research space. Read more.

Landmark Center owner wants to add more life-sciences space and a Star Market to expansion project

By adamg - 5/1/21 - 9:32 am

Rendering by Elkus Manfredi, showing proposed new building on the left.

Samuels & Associates yesterday filed plans with the BPDA for a new 13-story building next to the existing Landmark Center that would include 550,000 square feet of lab and related office space and room for a large new Star Market that would replace the current one on Boylston Street. Read more.

Ten-story life-sciences building proposed for Brookline Avenue in the Fenway

By adamg - 4/30/21 - 1:03 pm

Rendering of proposed 109 Brookline Ave.

Rendering by Gensler.

A California-based real-estate trust that focuses on life-sciences projects has filed plans to replace a vacant three-story building at 109 Brookline Ave. at Overland Street with a ten-story, 247,000-square foot building aimed at the burgeoning life-sciences business, with lots of lab space and room for offices for overseeing all that lab work. Read more.

Out-of-staters were being driven around the Fenway with a loaded gun, police say

By adamg - 3/15/21 - 8:53 am

Boston Police report arresting three people, two on gun charges, after a traffic stop on Brookline Avenue near Kilmarnock Street in the Fenway early Sunday morning. Read more.

Board approves two marijuana shops in Fenway and once again rejects half-mile buffer between cannabis concerns

By adamg - 2/23/21 - 2:37 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved marijuana shops proposed for what is now the Little Steve's pizza place on Boylston Street and the basement of the Cask 'n Flagon at Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Street. Read more.

Developer, Sox plan large redevelopment around Fenway Park

By adamg - 1/29/21 - 11:42 pm

The developer behind the 23-acre Seaport Square project in the Seaport says it will soon file plans to redevelop a total of eight acres around Fenway Park - including a deck over the Massachusetts Turnpike - that will include eight new buildings with offices, residential space, restaurants and stores. Read more.

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