A veteran Boston developer has begun work on a $700 million office and retail tower complex over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston, the first air-rights project to be built in the city in nearly four decades. Developer Steve Samuels has kicked off preliminary site work on 1001 Boylston, which features two high-rises on either side of a one-acre deck over I-90 in a bedraggled, long-neglected corner of Boston’s Back Bay.
Boston-based contractor Suffolk is serving as general contractor for the project, which will be anchored by two towers, a 13-story Citizen M Hotel, and a 20-story office building.