The development will include rental apartments, condominiums, small-scale community-based retail, parking, and performance space in conjunction with the Boston Arts Academy. The project would create a pedestrian connection between the Fenway and Kenmore Square neighborhoods by spanning the turnpike.

"By decking over the Turnpike and reconnecting the Kenmore and Fenway neighborhoods with a mix of well balanced uses, the project will set a wonderful precedent for what is possible when the neighborhood, city, state, and development community work together to create appropriate and vital air rights development," says John Rosenthal, president of Meredith Management. He notes that the plans for this project have been in the works for "several years."

The plan would take advantage of the 300-foot-long Lansdowne Parking Garage, which the company acquired nearly 10 years ago, by serving as the base for two of the project's towers. The development on a deck over the Turnpike would include multiple buildings of appropriate size and scale, as well as pedestrian streets and alleys.

Lend Lease Real Estate, an international real estate investment company, is listed as the project's financial partner and the development team includes architect Carlos Zapata of Wood and Zapata and Bovis Construction.