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South Station Tower Is Completed Above Boston's Rail Terminal
Hines finished the 51-storey, 677-foot tower built on air rights over South Station, adding 680,000 square feet of offices, Ritz-Carlton branded residences on the upper floors and an expanded bus terminal beneath it. Construction ran five years from a start in January 2020, after the scheme had sat stalled since its 2008 approval.
- South Station Tower was completed in September 2025, five years after construction officially began in January 2020 - the timeline the project set from the start[1]
- The wiki gives the height two ways: the infobox lists 677 ft (206 m) architectural and to the roof, the figure the FAA approved in February 2016, while the text describes "a 51-story, 678-foot tower"[1]
- It is the high-rise portion of a three-building development on top of Boston's historic South Station complex on Atlantic Avenue, an example of transit-oriented development, and on completion became the sixth-tallest building in Boston[1]
- The tower holds about 680,000 square feet (63,000 m²) of office space and 166 Ritz-Carlton-branded condominium residences from the 36th floor up, with a one-acre sky park on the 11th floor visible from the lobby[1]
- It does not touch the South Station building, instead occupying the space between the station's tracks and atrium and sitting on an arched base anchored by eight columns, with loads carried by diagonal struts from the exterior into the concrete core and down to those columns; part of the tower is cantilevered over the station atrium[1]
- The expanded bus station in the same phase reuses a foundation laid during the station's late-1980s renovation, when foundation piers for a future high-rise were installed between each pair of tracks, 35 feet apart[1]
- Preliminary design was by César Pelli, "whose designs are reminiscent of his Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis"; the building is LEED pre-certified silver and won the EPA's "Green design" award; Hines Interests is the developer[1]
- The scheme stalled for well over a decade: conceived by Tufts president Jean Mayer, whose university acquired the airspace rights through TUDC LLC in 1991 and brought in Hines in 1997, it was originally designed at 759 feet with a spire before being downscaled in 2006, approved by 2008 at 2,190,000 square feet with a 2008 groundbreaking and 2010 completion - and then went nowhere, with Tufts withdrawing in 2009[1]
- Restarting took several more years: build rights due to expire in April 2017 were extended by the state to year end, the BPDA approved construction in December 2016 after a Notice of Project Change proposing more residential space, and the start slipped to December 2017 and then again in 2018 over MBTA concerns about operational and maintenance costs, capital expenditure and how those were shared, with negotiations extended to April 2019[1]
- The steel frame had reached 109 feet by November 2022[1]
- Two 2024 incidents halted work: on March 21 a steel beam fell from the top of the tower, damaging windows before coming to rest on the ninth floor with other equipment landing at street level, prompting the MBTA to suspend commuter services and order work stopped - no injuries, with contractor Suffolk pausing until work resumed on March 27 after OSHA investigations - and on April 9 welders started a fire outside the ninth floor, quickly put out, with work continuing on April 10[1]
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- [1]90%en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Station_Toweren.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Sep 1, 2025 ✓· 100% of score
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