Major Milestones for Boston’s Longwood Medical Area Redevelopment
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Phase One of MMHC redevelopment in the Longwood Medical Area includes Fenwood Inn (left) - a state-of-the-art clinical and residential mental health center and The Binney Building (right) - a clinical and office facility. Photos by ©Andy Ryan.
n 2003, shortly after Massachusetts officials closed the mental health center in the Longwood Medical Area (LMA), the Division of Capital Asset Management issued a Request-for-Proposals for the 2.46-acre site.
Nine years later, phase one of the Mass Mental Health Center redevelopment is completed and occupied as a result of a partnership between Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Roxbury Tenants of Harvard. Master planners The Architectural Team, in consultation with Linea 5 Architects, proposed a four-building master plan for this unique public-private partnership, which envisioned a lively neighborhood attractive to residents and healthcare providers alike. The multiple building project promised to provide significant new clinical and research facilities for the medical community while returning an important mental health institution to its historical location and expanding the reach of a major affordable housing community. After years of extensive planning, in January, the development team celebrated the
@ your FINGERTIPS The firm launched its newly designed marketing brochure chronicling a sampling of projects over the past 41 years—from notable historic adaptive reuse projects to
official ribbon-cutting of the Binney Building and Fenwood Inn.
new mixed-use urban
Located between the Brigham & Women’s Hospital campus and the Riverway, the firm’s plan reclaims an abandoned and important corner of the LMA creating an animated mix of uses and activities. “This kind of urban revitalization option can be strategic from the points of view of both planning and land use because it allows for programmatic juxtapositions that might previously have been considered infeasible,” said Michael Liu, AIA, project architect and principal at The Architectural Team.
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According to John Messervy, Director of Capital and Facilities Planning for Partners Real Estate, the ideas implemented in the LMA master plan can be adapted to other larger-scale projects in many U.S. cities, where proposed uses may have been previously considered mutually exclusive. “Critical to the success of the Mass Mental Health Center redevelopment was conceiving it as a collaborative development strategy and ensuring the successful resolution of both institutional and residential needs,” said Messervy.
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Clients: Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Contractor: John Moriarty & Associates, Inc.
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