Athletic shoe manufacturer New Balance plans to build a 14-acre world headquarters complex featuring LEED-certified buildings in Boston's blighted Allston-Brighton area, located along the Massachusetts Turnpike.
提出了复杂包括至少四个办公室buildings, restaurants, a 175-room hotel and a sports complex with a 200-meter track-and-field facility, according to a master plan filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority on March 21. The new 250,000-sq-ft headquarters building, designed in the shape of a running shoe, will not exceed 130 ft in height, the plan states.
"As an Allston-Brighton business community member for 36 years, we support thoughtful development that benefits the community through job creation, public open spaces and overall infrastructure improvements,” New Balance says in a statement. The company's goal is to transform existing buildings and surface parking lots into an anchor of renewed activity along the Guest Street corridor.
Elkus Manfredi Architects and Howard/Stein Hudson Associates, both based in Boston, are the project designers. Both firms declined to comment on the project.
施工计划不迟于下一个春天开始，建设一个或多个建筑物，并根据新的平衡来进展阶段。该综合体将位于新布莱顿着陆，空置的办公大楼将被夷为风，计划州。
Filing the master plan is the first step in the planning process before holding community meetings and proceeding with a secondary filing with the city, says a spokeswoman for the firm. The cost of construction, project delivery method and selection of a general contractor has yet to be decided, she says.
