{"id":1004087445,"date":"2013-11-25T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=219836"},"modified":"2020-04-28T01:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:30:53","slug":"district-hall-launches-in-bostons-innovation-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/district-hall-launches-in-bostons-innovation-district\/","title":{"rendered":"District Hall Launches in Boston\u2019s Innovation District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month the first innovation building officially opened in the heart of Boston\u2019s thriving Innovation District, a newly created \u201ctech neighborhood\u201d in the South Boston waterfront that serves as business incubator, co-working and conference space for startups in the Greater Boston area and public events place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The $7 million District Hall building was created by a unique public-private partnership between the City of Boston, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), the Cambridge Innovation Center and Boston Global Investors (BGI) which financed the project.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_219845\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/11\/District-Hall-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219845\" title=\"District Hall 1\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/11\/District-Hall-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Hall &#8211; Boston Innovation District<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Located at 75 Northern Avenue on the site of the former waterfront rail yards, the single-story District Hall was designed by Hacin + Associates in collaboration with landscape architect Reed Hilderbrand as a dynamic innovation hub whose architectural details are inspired by the area\u2019s industrial past. The 12,000-square-foot facility is the first standalone city-sponsored innovation center in the country; it&#8217;s envisioned as a meeting point for emerging companies, where executives can exchange ideas (using the writable IdeaPaint walls incorporated everywhere in the building) and host business and social events. The steel and concrete District Hall includes Gather\u2014a restaurant run by the Briar Group\u2014and a coffee shop called Brew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur team recognized the unprecedented nature of District Hall from the earliest stages of its conception.\u00a0 At once a civic building, an informal gathering place, an urban lab, and a catalyst for innovation, the building demanded a design that was both formally distinct and programmatically flexible,\u201d said Hacin + Associates President David Hacin in a press statement. \u201cAs the development of its surrounding neighborhood unfolds, we can only anticipate the unique and personalized ways in which people will interact with District Hall and the impact it will have on the City of Boston,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">District Hall is operated and managed by the Venture Caf\u00e9 Foundation, a non-profit organization under the Cambridge Innovation Center umbrella.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bostinno.streetwise.co\/2013\/11\/04\/boston-living-winning-mosaic-installed-at-gather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BostInno<\/a>,<\/em> Artaic and Design Exchange Boston (DxB) recently organized the \u201cDesign \u2018N Gather Mosaic Design Competition\u201d that was run at the District Hall building throughout the month of October. Artists from all over the world were invited to design mosaic murals that express the concepts of creativity, collaboration and innovation. Joseph Lyman\u2019s \u201cBuilding Dreams II,\u201d which was selected by David Hacin as the work that best describes the characteristics of the three keypoints in the competition\u2014the Innovation District as a whole, District Hall and Gather\u2014will be installed permanently on one of the restaurant\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Photo:\u00a0Gustav Holland, Flagship Photo\u00a0via Hacin + Associates<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the first innovation building officially opened in the heart of Boston&rsquo;s thriving Innovation District, a newly created &ldquo;tech neighborhood&rdquo; in the South Boston waterfront that serves as business incubator, co-working and conference space for startups in the Greater Boston area and public events place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,21742],"tags":[1815],"class_list":["post-1004087445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston","category-latest","tag-national"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>District Hall Launches in Boston\u2019s Innovation District - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/district-hall-launches-in-bostons-innovation-district\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"District Hall Launches in Boston\u2019s Innovation District\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last month the first innovation building officially opened in the heart of Boston&rsquo;s thriving Innovation District, a newly created &ldquo;tech neighborhood&rdquo; 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