Fueled by an $11.2 million loan from KayBank, Samuels affiliateFenway Ventures Point Properties LLC purchased 186-200 BrooklineAve. and the adjoining 1395-1399 Boylston St. The Brookline Avenueasset is home to D'Angelo's Sandwich Shop, and fronts a majorintersection at Park Drive leading into the Longwood Medical Areaand onto the Jamaicaway. The acquired properties are across fromthe former Sears warehouse, a hulking art-deco building that nowfeatures a Best Buy and other shops, plus 450,000 sf of officespace.

The seller of the Fenway buildings is Riverside Properties Inc.of Wellesley, whose faded sign on Brookline Avenue still advertisesavailable space for lease in the low-slung structures. RiversidePresident Mark Levy did not return a phone call by press deadline.Levy's firm paid $955,000 for the assets in June 1994.

Some observers predict Samuels will pursue a redevelopment playon the block. "Things are definitely going to change," opines onebroker familiar with the new owner, and a spokeswoman for Samuelsacknowledges as much, telling GlobeSt.com that the firm aims to"continue the spirit of Trilogy" on the parcel, although she saysthe vision remains undefined. "At this point, we have no specificplans and no timeframe for when we might submit something to theBoston Redevelopment Authority," the spokeswoman relays.