In this town, Adam Weiner is as close as it gets to real estate royalty. His father is New England mall baron Stephen Weiner. His mentor is construction king John Fish, whom he apprenticed with. His partner is Steve Samuels, and together they are forming the city's newest real estate dynasty.
The $150 million project at Barry's Corner seeks to transform a collection of tired low-rise buildings and parking lots into a bustling development with modern, glass and stone buildings. The development will result in two new residential buildings reaching up to nine stories in height.
The now-fading motor lodge was built decades ago in the shadows of Fenway Park, the vision of a developer who wanted to build something different amid the gas stations and car dealerships that lined Boylston Street.
MassDOT's Board of Directors authorized its Secretary and CEO Richard Davey to execute an agreement with Weiner Ventures and Samuels & Associates to develop Back Bay Parcels 12 and 15 with a project that includes hotel, residential, and retail high-rise construction.
A $500 million Landmark Center expansion and renovation would add three residential buildings with 550 units to the rapidly growing Fenway neighborhood and a new food hall anchored by the city's first Wegmans supermarket.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority approved construction of more than 1,100 new homes from East Boston to the Fenway, adding to a residential building boom that is already transforming large swaths of the city.
As a new generation of city dwellers commit to 24/7 urban living, retailers of all types are reinventing themselves to compete in urban centers. A ULI Boston panel, including Weiner Ventures' Adam Weiner, examines retailers' strategies.
The Showcase Cinemas SuperLux in Chestnut Hill is not your typical movie-going experience. An employee in a crisp, all-black uniform greets patrons at the door, ushering them into a lobby that looks more like an upscale hotel than a movie theater.
Arriving on the top floor of "The Gallery at the Historic Museum of Natural History" is a bit like stepping into a fairy tale: There's a 24-foot illuminated steel Eiffel Tower replica discovered at a Paris flea market, an iridescent gold-coffered ceiling, and sparkling chandeliers.
In a high stakes competition among some of Boston's better-known developers, score one for the Weiner Ventures and Samuels & Associates joint venture to build an air rights development on Boston Back Bay Parcels 12 and 15.
The Boston development team of Weiner Ventures and Samuels & Associates has won the right to build a towering hotel, residential, and retail complex on state-owned properties in the city's Back Bay, adding to a surge of ambitious building proposals in the area.
During an unexpected layover in Boston more than 20 years ago, Gary Friedman, creator, curator, and now chairman emeritus of Restoration Hardware, made a quick stop into what was then Louis Boston, at 234 Berkeley Street. “I’d never seen such a beautiful work of architecture housing a retail store.”
Fascinated by a neoclassical redbrick-and-brownstone building that commands a parklike block of Berkeley Street between Newbury and Boylston, RH Chairman Gary Friedman mused, Wouldn't it be great to have a store as magnificent as this one day?
