Berklee Cuts the $100M Ribbon

The Berklee College of Music opened the first new Boston facility it has ever built on Wednesday in melodic fashion—music, a capella vocals, a light show, and Mayor Walsh on hand to help cut the ribbon. (Instead of scissors, they just sung really high notes.) The 16-story, $100M William Rawn design provides the college with a much-needed facility that has a 369-bed student residence, 400-seat cafe, 4,200 SF of ground-floor retail, and two levels of below-ground, "Hollywood-quality" space for recording, technology classes, critical listening, and film dubbing. It elegantly upgrades the Mass Ave streetscape and foreshadows the other new development coming to the neighborhood: Carpenter & Co’s high-rises adjacent to the Christian Science complex.

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