Union Square Redevelopment: 20-50 Prospect Street
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  • Rendering of the exterior of building showing tower building and two lower buildings with adjoining roadways and City of Boston skyline in background
  • Rendering of the exterior of corner building with tower building in background
  • Rendering of the exterior of building showing tower building and landscaped exterior plaza
  • Rendering of exterior of building showing soft-scape green space and the adjacent green line MBTA station
  • exterior construction photo of precast panels starting.
  • Photograph of exterior of building under construction at the time of topping off.
  • Photograph of exterior of building under construction at the time of topping off.
  • Exterior Photograph of the back of the Union Square during construction showing tower in background and mid-rise building in foreground.

Union Square Redevelopment: 20-50 Prospect Street

SOMERVILLE, MA

The Union Square Revitalization project (USQ) is a transit-oriented development of over 2.4M SF including lab, office, housing, retail, and open space. This development will expand the Cambridge/Boston innovation ecosystem into Somerville and foster one of the next great concentration of life science and technology companies.

 

Within this larger development, Cranshaw is building the first project – 20-50 Prospect Street – a 25-story tower with adjoining mid-rise building. The project includes 450 apartment units, 20% of which will be designated as permanently affordable, as well as amenity space, a 271-space parking garage and ground floor retail. The project sits adjacent to the new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Union Station station on the Green Line. Coordination and communication with the ownership entity, the MBTA, the City of Somerville, and other agencies as well as the adjacent construction project have been critical to the project’s progress.

 

The tower building is being constructed with a concrete cast-in-place core, girder slab and a multi-colored architectural precast panel façade. The mid-rise portion is 5/1 wood over steel frame and includes a three level parking garage.

CLIENT

USAA Real Estate

ARCHITECT

BKL Architecture LLC

SIZE

535,800 SF