Boston – Lee Kennedy Co. will complete a 300,000sf fit out of the old Verizon building at 185 Franklin St. in a roughly $40 million construction effort to help Brown Brothers Harriman consolidate its Boston contingent into one headquarters location.
Lee Kennedy Co. will build out 12 floors of new office space work including open work stations, perimeter offices, trading areas with heavy tel-data requirements, a new conference center, training rooms, a full-service cafeteria and kitchen, an executive dining facility, atriums and interconnecting stairs.
LKCo. has begun a three-month preconstruction process with design partners Habjan Architecture + Interior Design out of New York City and Boston-based Dyer Brown & Associates.
Construction is slated to begin in November and final occupancy in August 2013.
In addition to the size and scope of work, an added level of complexity comes from the need to repurpose a building originally constructed as a telecom outpost. The 65-year-old building has built in telecom infrastructure along with heavy switch gear and unique equipment that will need to be removed. Additional challenges include varying deck-to-deck heights on every floor and unreliable as-built drawings to help the entire team ascertain existing conditions.
LKCo. To Fit Out New BBH HQ
Boston – Lee Kennedy Co. will complete a 300,000sf fit out of the old Verizon building at 185 Franklin St. in a roughly $40 million construction effort to help Brown Brothers Harriman consolidate its Boston contingent into one headquarters location.