New Landmark Starts To Rise At Bostons Northern Gateway

Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 11:40am

By Steve Adams

The Warren Group

A 38-story apartment building that will tower over the TD Garden is set to become a new landmark at the northern gateway to Boston.

The 503-unit Avalon North Station will become Boston's tallest rental complex and the highest-profile symbol to date of the North Station neighborhood's reinvention. It follows the more modest examples set in recent years by the nearby Victor and Avenir apartment complexes, which have added a 24-7 element to a neighborhood that rarely swarms with street life unless there's an event at the Garden.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said one of his goals is creating visually distinct gateways at the entrances to the city.

"We have to make them exciting, and that's what this project does," Walsh said at a groundbreaking ceremony Monday. "As you're coming [into the city], one of the first things you're going to see is this beautiful building."

Site work began in early fall on the $250-million Avalon North Station complex behind the Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Building on Causeway Street.

The complex will contain 4,000 square feet of retail space on the first two floors, and the site will contain a new walkway connecting Causeway Street to the Charles River.

Construction is expected to take three years, with the first units available in late 2016, said Scott Dale, senior vice president for AvalonBay Communities.

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