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Real estate projects are often perceived as nuts-and-bolts, tangible, requiring earthmoving equipment, big pieces of steel and painted drywall. While much of the work we do results in construction, we are equally at home with the exploration typical of a feasibility study or strategic plan. We show here examples of a range of efforts for a diverse group of clients, including everything from initial concept development to occupancy. Be sure to click on “Read more” to explore a project in greater depth.
Commercial 
Advisory and Strategic Planning
- Fidelity Brokerage Services, Inc., Boston, MA - Formulation of a new business model and a development strategy for nationwide expansion for this national retail brokerage chain.
- Fidelity Investments, Smithfield, RI - Master planning of a 350-acre suburban office park with 1.1 million square feet of office space and parking for 3,500 cars.
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Development and Construction Management
- Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, Boston, MA - Strategic planning for a new business venture and facility development (programming, design and construction) for their new 50,000 square foot multipurpose facility to research, develop, test and demonstrate leading-edge technologies for business applications.
- Sharpe Building at the Foundry, Providence, RI - Adaptive reuse of a 180,000 square foot 19th-century brick manufacturing building into a multi-tenant office building (historic renovation certified by the National Park Service) with a new 800-car garage.
Read more - Fidelity Investments, Smithfield, RI - New construction of a 250,000 square foot office building with a new 1,050-car garage.
Read more - Fidelity Brokerage Services, Inc., nationwide - Development of a nationwide group of retail brokerage "stores", including site selection, design and construction for dozens of facilities across the country.
- 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA (Fidelity corporate headquarters) - Complete technology upgrade, infrastructure replacement and tenant renovation in an occupied, 100 year-old, 250,000 square foot building.
- 7 Water Street, Boston, MA (Fidelity Real Estate Company headquarters) - Complete technology upgrade, infrastructure replacement and tenant renovation in a listed historic building.
- Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA - Tenant improvements for over 1 million square feet of office space for various Fidelity businesses in Boston's financial and seaport districts.
- Fidelity Investments Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario - Tenant improvements for 120,000 square feet of office space.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA - Redevelopment of a 305,000 square foot office building with all new systems; 108,000 square feet of tenant improvements; new construction of a 20,000 square foot addition.
Read more - General Cinema Theatres, Inc., Chestnut Hill, MA - Design and construction of approximately 75 movie theaters in 15 states across the country.
- One Federal Street, Boston, MA - Strategic planning for one of the largest fund management groups in the country, followed by program development and implementation of a design and construction program for 350,000 square feet in a Boston office tower.
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Institutional
Advisory and Strategic Planning
- Boston Arts Academy - Strategic planning and facility programming for a new facility for a pilot high school of 420 visual and performing arts students.
- Boston Day and Evening Academy - Strategic planning for a pilot high school of 300 students.
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences - Strategic planning to address facilities needs and real estate investment opportunities for the second oldest learned society in the United States.
- Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA - Strategic planning for one of the oldest private libraries in the United States. This effort involved examining long-term business challenges presented by anticipated growth of the organization and assessing the viability of meeting their facility demands through a program of property acquisition and redevelopment.
- Waring School, Beverly, MA - Development of a campus Master Plan for a private school of 150 students in grades 6-12.
Read more - Malden Medical Center, Malden, MA - Strategic real estate planning for the reuse of a 17-acre campus with 400,000 square feet of medical facilities.
- Smithfield Learning Center - Comprehensive feasibility study including market study, operational analysis and program development for a $20 million not-for-profit daycare facility designed to provide the highest level of child care in the industry.
Read more - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Well into a $500 million capital campaign and having just broken ground on a major construction project to expand the main museum building, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was presented with an opportunity it could not pass up. The Forsyth Institute put up for sale the building it had occupied for nearly 100 years adjacent to the MFA. With the subsequent acquisition of this signature property, the MFA recognized a need to rethink its plans for occupancy of nearly 1 million square feet of space. Toward this end, Smith + St. John was hired to direct a comprehensive master planning effort.
Development Management
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA - Program development of a series of facilities projects and execution of a renovation program, including substantial infrastructure replacement of a landmark building for the second oldest learned society in the United States.
- Cathedral High School, Boston, MA - Ground-up development of a new gymnasium building for a private urban high school.
Read more - Waring School, Beverly, MA - Construction of a new 13,000 square foot science building.
Read more - Meetinghouse Restoration - Historic restoration, using traditional 19th century timber framing materials and techniques, of a 19th century New England meetinghouse on an historic town common.
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Green / Sustainable Consulting
- Conservation Law Foundation - Green / sustainable consulting for office renovation.
- Massachusetts Audubon Society, Newburyport, MA - Green / sustainable consulting for Joppa Flats Visitor Center.
Read more - Newton Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA - Green / sustainable consulting for Elderly Housing development.
Medical
Planning
- Malden Medical Center, Malden, MA - Strategic real estate planning for the reuse of a 17-acre campus with 400,000 square feet of medical facilities.
- University of Massachusetts Medical Center - Planning feasibility study for a 50,000 square foot day surgery suite in an existing hospital.
- Harvard Community Health Plan - Program analysis of the first HMO in Massachusetts. The study included service delivery patterns, staffing requirements, patient visit flow analysis and as-built square foot programs for ten HMO clinics.
Development Management
Ambulatory Care Medical Clinics
- Post Office Square - A 10-story downtown office building was completely gutted, and a new main entrance, egress stair, two new elevators and completely new systems were inserted in the 100-year-old fabric. A 52,000 square foot full service HMO clinic, including exam suites for all specialties, radiology and laboratory suites was constructed in the renovated space.
- West Roxbury - A new 45,000 square foot building was programmed, designed and constructed as a full-service HMO clinic, including exam suites for all specialties and radiology and laboratory suites.
- Somerville - Programming, design and construction of a 62,000 square foot full-service HMO clinic in a new Davis Square office building.
- Burlington - Programming and design for a 56,000 square foot full-service HMO clinic in an existing suburban office building.
Laboratories
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute - 20,000 square feet of laboratory renovations in the Longwood Medical Area.
- Harvard Medical School - 15,000 of laboratory space in the Thorne Bioscience Research Building in the Longwood Medical Area.
Medical Office Buildings
- Beverly Hospital - A new 32,000 square foot medical office building designed and constructed for several group medical practices.
- Carbone Medical Building - Project for the renovation/addition of a wood-framed building into a 15,000 square foot medical office facility.
Residential
Multifamily
- Promenade at the Foundry, Providence, RI - Adaptive reuse of a 19th-century brick manufacturing building into 220 rental apartments (historic renovation certified by the National Park Service) with a new 420-car garage.
Read more - Peabody Crossing, Peabody, MA - New construction of 96 condominium units in a former tannery yard.
- Newton Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA - Expansion of an elderly housing development.
- Sustainable Housing Demonstration Project, Cambridge, MA - Green redevelopment of a 5-unit apartment building.
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Single-family houses
- Phippsburg, Maine
- Weston, Massachusetts
- Wayland, Massachusetts
- Small Point, Maine
- Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Belmont, Massachusetts
- Swampscott, Massachusetts
- Guilford, Vermont
- Marblehead, Massachusetts
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