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By adamg - 7/17/24 - 2:00 pm

Savvor, a Caribbean and soul-food restaurant and nightclub on Lincoln Street in the Leather District, and SAVR, a "spirited American bistro" on Seaport Boulevard in the Seaport, are fighting in court over the similarity of their names - or lack thereof. Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/24 - 11:11 am
Car on fire after

Photo attached to the complaint of crash aftermath at Lincoln and Portsmouth.

An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about Lincoln Street following a crash that resulted in one vehicle bursting into flames yesterday at the intersection with Portsmouth Street: Read more.

By adamg - 5/9/24 - 12:03 pm
Newly two-way Lincoln Street

Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't re-sign that two-way Lincoln.

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about Lincoln Street in Brighton, which the city recently changed from a one-way street to a two-way street between Portsmouth Street and Market Street/Birmingham Parkway. Read more.

By adamg - 4/26/24 - 12:10 pm

A company renovating the skyscraper at 1 Lincoln St. in Downtown Crossing yesterday won the right to buy a liquor license for a currently unoccupied space to serve what it says is a growing demand for full service restaurants as more people return to office work by opening at least one restaurant, but possibly more. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 11:15 am
Start of deed for 179 Lincoln St., showing price of just $10

Top of the deed for 179 Lincoln St.

In perhaps the most dramatic example of the decline of the Boston office market yet, Triple Net Investor reports a subsidiary of Blackstone last week sold the five-story 179 Lincoln St. at Kneeland Street for just $10 to local developer Synergy.

Synergy is actually also paying another $76.5 million - to assume the amount remaining on the mortgage Blackstone took out in January, 2020. Read more.

By adamg - 10/27/23 - 11:51 am

City Realty, best known as a developer of residential buildings, moved into the office market yesterday, putting down $11 million to buy 186 Lincoln St., a nine-story office building in the Leather District. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/23 - 12:01 pm
Rendeirng of proposed 125 Lincoln St.

Rendering by S9 Architecture.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved an Ontario developer's plans to replace the aging parking garage at 125 Lincoln St. with an 11-story life-sciences building with ground-floor space for a banquet hall - and with plans for 50 to 60 units of affordable housing on Essex Street. Read more.

By adamg - 3/16/22 - 11:41 pm
Parcel 25

Parcel 25; steam plant and Reggie Wong Park not included.

The MassDOT board today approved a 99-year lease for construction of a new building between Kneeland, Lincoln and Albany streets that would include a deck over a part of I-93. Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/21 - 2:05 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a local resident's plans to convert what is now a security-systems firm at the intersection of Lincoln Street and Birmingham Parkway into a cannabis shop topped by a kitchen that would baked pot-infused cookies and brownies. Read more.

By adamg - 9/21/21 - 10:56 pm
Firmin, Feaster, Ciccolo, Joyce

Eddie Firmin, Joseph Feaster, Robert Ciccolo and Kathleen Joyce in Zoom hearing.

City licensing head Kathleen Joyce is considering cutting back closing time at Savvor, 180 Lincoln St. - and could even revoke its entertainment license - over a string of late-night incidents that the local police captain says is draining his resources when he's already got the Theater District and Faneuil Hall Marketplace to worry about. Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/21 - 12:20 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man following a series of incidents that started with an argument on Lincoln Street near Beach Street early Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/21/21 - 10:15 am
Downed transformer and pole on fire in Allston

Gamma Ray Digital had a front-row seat from across the turnpike this morning as a utility pole topped with a transformer fell across Lincoln Street near Everett Street in Allston, ending with not one but three explosions and, of course, a smoke-belching fire. Read more.

By adamg - 6/28/21 - 5:32 pm
Line search looking for bullets

Officers in a line search looking for casings. Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports somebody began firing a gun from the intersection of Lincoln and Tufts streets around 3:30 a.m. Officers recovered casings as far away as Kneeland Street and Surface Road. No victims, however.

By adamg - 12/17/20 - 11:33 am
Proposed 125 Lincoln St.

Rendering by S9.

A Toronto developer has swapped out its plans for a 24-story office building at 125 Lincoln St. - now home to a parking garage and the Hei La Moon restaurant - with new plans for a 14-story building made up mainly of research and development space. Read more.

By adamg - 10/12/20 - 10:21 am
Proposed new innovation center on Lincoln Street

Rendering by CBT Architects, with birds.

Berkeley Investments has filed plans with the BPDA for a "post-Covid" three-building campus on Lincoln Street at Everett Street that would include an apartment building with 314 units and two buildings with life-sciences R&D space and ground-floor retail. Read more.

By adamg - 9/29/20 - 2:58 pm
Architect's rendering of 525 Lincoln St.

Rendering, with birds, by HDS Architecture.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a six-story apartment building between Lincoln and Cambridge streets aimed at people who don't mind sharing apartments - such as grad students and young professionals looking to save on rent. Read more.

By adamg - 7/17/20 - 10:39 am

Local developer Berkeley Investments has told the BPDA it will soon file detailed plans for a three-building complex with 314 residential units and 548,000 square feet of office and R&D space at the Harvard-owned 176 Lincoln St. - the old Boston Tech Center that has sat vacant since the 1980s. Read more.

By adamg - 7/11/20 - 4:50 pm
Suspects

Photo via BPD.

Update: Police say they've identified a suspect, but are not releasing his name.

Boston Police are looking for this guy and his alleged partner in defacement for an attempt to paint over the "Black Lives Matter" installation on Lincoln Street in Allston Thursday night. Read more.

By adamg - 7/1/20 - 9:07 pm

Rising smoke. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports a car caught fire three levels down at the 1 Lincoln St. garage around 9:20 a.m. The fire went to two alarms as smoke filled the garage. Read more.

By adamg - 5/26/20 - 2:19 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that C-Mart on Lincoln Street has shut for good. The market was in a garage - also home to the the Hei La Moon restaurant - that a Toronto developer wants to replace with an office tower.

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