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South End Commission Okays Plan to Redevelop BFCIT Campus
Boston’s South End Landmark District Commission recently voted to approve the application for the redevelopment of the 1.2-acre Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (BFCIT) campus, a project known as 41 Berkeley.
BFCIT is relocating to Nubian Square and has sold the South End property to Related Beal, which has proposed to preserve and renovate the South End site’s existing historic buildings as well as to introduce new spaces to allow for a change in use of the site.
New uses include a senior care facility, retail space, both market-rate and income-restricted housing, and improvements to the Tremont, Appleton and Berkeley streetscape.
The commission said the focus of historic preservation efforts at the existing BFCIT campus centers around the Franklin Union Building, erected in 1908, and numbers 4 and 6 Appleton St., which date from 1891 and 1883, respectively.
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