Downtown Crossing Offices Proposed for Residential Conversion
An affiliate of real estate firm Synergy has filed an application to turn an 11-story building at 294 Washington St., immediately next to Old South Meeting House in Downtown Crossing, into 255 apartments use while keeping the existing ground-floor retail. The Boston Business Journal reported that it is the largest project to seek city tax incentives under Boston’s office-to-residential conversion program.
It is also the first such project in Boston involving Synergy, which otherwise has been known primarily for acquiring office buildings at significant discounts in the past few years and investing in new amenities. The firm has spoken in support of the conversion program, which Mayor Michelle Wu launched in 2023.
The site sits at a highly visible spot on the northern end of Downtown Crossing. The building, which dates to the early 1900s and wraps around the meeting house to Milk Street, is described in permitting applications as “predominantly vacant.”
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