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Developers Boylston Properties and the Wilder Companies (and their partners, including a first cousin of former President George W. Bush) are out with the long-awaited details of the redevelopment and expansion of Watertown’s Arsenal Mall.
The developers purchased the site in 2013, and speculation has raged re: what, exactly, the project would include. Here’s the latest on what’s now called Arsenal Yards:
- It will feature 350,000 square feet of retail and entertainment.
- That retail will include a 30,000-square-foot specialty grocery store and what the developers describe as a wine “superstore.”
- The entertainment will include a multiplex cinema and six to eight limited-seating screens; and there will be six “chef-driven” restaurants.
- As for the residential portion, that is slated to include 428 market-rate apartments and 75 affordable ones.
- Zipcar will also be available as will electric-car chargers.
- All totaled, the development is expected to stretch to more than 1 million square feet.
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The first parts of Arsenal Yards—the retail stores—are scheduled to open in the fall of 2018. The apartments should arrive in 2020. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, if you need a concrete example to conceptualize the mega-development, look no further than Somerville’s Assembly Row.
- Nearly half of Assembly Row's condos sold a year before opening [Curbed Boston]