Suffolk Breaks Ground on $220M Boston Residential Tower

Suffolk Construction has been busy in Boston, breaking ground on the $220 million, 390,000-square-foot Millennium Place III residential tower in Downtown -- its second groundbreaking project in two weeks.

November 30, 2011
By Nicholas Ziegler, News Editor

Suffolk Construction has been busy in the city of Boston. After beginning work on the 12-story, $92 million The Victor two weeks ago and winning a contract for construction on the 488,000-square-foot The Kensington, the firm has just started work on Millennium Place III in the city’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood. The 15-story, 390,000-square-foot residential tower is slated to open in 2013.

The $220 million project – which includes $135 million of hard construction costs – will feature 256 units along with 9,700 square feet of ground-floor retail and 125 below-grade parking spots. The building will occupy a full city block, spanning Washington Street, Avenue de Lafayette, Harrison Avenue Extension and Hayward Place.

A new report by services firm Marcus & Millichap shows that interest in Boston multi-family properties will remain high in the foreseeable future, as multiple factors – high interest rates, down-payment requirements exceeding 30 percent, the limiting of insured home loans – will limit sales of single-family properties in the urban core. Institutional buyers, then, are looking for multi-family buildings in the city with high upside potential. As the economy continues to expand, with the metro area expected to outperform the nation in general with regards to employment numbers, housing will become a major driving factor.

The tower is the third and final phase of Millennium Partners’ mixed-use campus in Downtown. The first two phases consists of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Towers.

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