Lerch Bates has been selected by developer Carpenter & Company, Inc. to join the team designing and constructing a landmark project adjacent to Christian Science Plaza in Boston. The development includes a mid-rise structure and a high-rise tower that will be the tallest building built in Boston in more than 20 years.
Lerch Bates will design the vertical transportation and façade access systems as well as perform materials management and handling services for the tower. The project at Belvidere and Dalton streets is part of a larger development plan to redesign the 14.8-acre Christian Science Plaza in the city’s Back Bay. The structure will rise 691 feet and will feature 58 floors, 712,500 square feet, a 250-room hotel, 170 condominium units, restaurants and shops. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Cambridge Seven Associates were chosen as collaborating architects for the project. Construction of the tower is expected to begin in early 2014 with completion in 2017.
“We are pleased that our firm will be able to showcase its three core competencies, vertical transportation, façade access and materials management and handling, during the construction of this inspiring project,” said Jeff Marsh, Lerch Bates’ vice president of business development and marketing. “We have designed elevator, escalator and façade access systems for some of the world’s tallest and most high profile buildings and we’re thrilled to join this project.”