The City has agreed to sell the Worcester Memorial Auditorium to the Architectural Heritage Foundation. The Aud is being sold for $450,000 and looks to invest a total of $94M into redeveloping it.
The Boston Preservation Alliance has announced an action alert for Boston’s historic Northern Avenue Bridge, an iconic, threatened structure that connects the Financial and Seaport Districts.
WORCESTER — City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. intends to submit a recommendation to the City Council later this month regarding the future of the long-vacant Worcester Memorial Auditorium. Mr. Augustus told the council, which met in Finance Committee Tuesday to review his fiscal 2020 municipal budget recommendation, that he is in the process of negotiating final details with the Architectural Heritage Foundation.
We are excited to announce that the Boston Landmarks Commission has approved the rehabilitation plans for the Speedway. Following a March 26 presentation by AHF, Bruner/Cott, and Klopfer Martin Design Group, BLC voted in favor of the project moving forward, pending final review of signage.
On March 6, after a five-month review process, Boston City Council authorized $34 million in Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds for dozens of projects across the city, including the Speedway Headquarters. The vote aids 56 historic preservation, open space, and affordable housing projects that the Community Preservation Committee recommended for funding approval.
The Architectural Heritage Foundation took another step forward in its effort to revitalize the Speedway by hosting a bidders walk-through of the complex.
On February 25, at the request of the Mass DCR and the Architectural Heritage Foundation, thirteen members of the Hingham-based Student Conservation Association Historic Preservation crew arrived at the Speedway for a winter clean-up.
The Architectural Heritage Foundation is delighted to welcome back the Student Conservation Association (SCA) to the Speedway Headquarters for another day of pre-restoration site work.
