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Samuels & Associates Opens Boston’s First Air Rights Development in Decades
Samuels & Associates has opened Lyrik Back Bay, reportedly Boston’s first air rights development in decades. Its first retail tenant, a Rivian automotive showroom, and a 399-key hotel, a citizenM, are open. Its anchor office tenant, the website CarGurus, is set to move in later this fall, reported the Boston Business Journal.
With more than 400,000 square feet of office and lab space, the development over the Mass Pike was the fifth-largest construction project in the state as of the Business Journal’s most recent research.
“As we designed the plans for this transformative air rights project, Samuels & Associates saw an opportunity to create a focal gathering point for the community,” Abe Menzin, an EVP at Samuels & Associates, said in a statement. He added that Samuels sought not just to find the right mix of retailers, but also “in redesigning the streetscape to assure that pedestrians, cyclists and bus and subway users found it easy and appealing to access Lyrik and the surrounding area.”
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