From The Boston Globe: The University of Massachusetts Boston has reached an agreement to acquire the Bayside Exposition Center. The university plans to immediately use the Bayside’s nearly 2,000 parking spaces as it constructs new facilities at its existing nearby campus. The 275,000-square-foot Bayside building also will be used for classrooms and offices during renovations of buildings. Officials from the university would not disclose the sale price because an agreement has not been signed. The university says acquiring the Bayside property is crucial as it embarks on its biggest expansion in 35 years: construction of a new science complex, general academic building, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
APRIL 2010...From The Boston Globe: The University of Massachusetts-Boston has signed a preliminary agreement to buy the Bayside Exposition Center to support development of the first new academic facilities on the campus in 35 years. The 20-acre site will help the school replace parking that will be eliminated next year, when it begins construction of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, the Integrated Sciences Complex and a general academic building.
DECEMBER 2009...from The Boston Globe: The University of Massachusetts Boston's plans to expand its presence on the Dorchester peninsula in the city caught many elected officials and neighbors off guard, and some said it will force them to rethink their strategy for the area. A few months after completing a report outlining a vision for a “24-hour-a-day neighborhood,’’ planners and residents will have to head back to the drawing board.
Earlier...from The Boston Globe: The University of Massachusetts Boston has reached an agreement to acquire the Bayside Exposition Center. UMass plans to immediately use the Bayside’s nearly 2,000 parking spaces as it constructs new facilities along its Morrissey Boulevard campus. The 275,000-square-foot Bayside building also will be used for classrooms and offices during renovations of buildings. The university says acquiring the Bayside property is crucial as it embarks on its biggest expansion project in 35 years. It is constructing a new science complex, general academic building, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
