Maverick Marketplace Receives
Prestigious Award from Boston Preservation Alliance
EAST BOSTON - The 2014 Boston
Preservation Alliance Awards have been announced. Among the 10 high profile, big
budget projects that received the award year is an unusual entry from a local
husband and wife team using their own funds and labour. The owners of Maverick Marketplace
(the former East Boston Welfare Building at 154 Maverick Street), John and
Melissa Tyler, are proud today that their renovation this building has been
recognized by the BPA.
The competition was fierce.
According to the BPA this years entries were "our strongest group of
nominations in the Award's twenty-six year history.” The
Alliance selected winners based on their “outstanding contributions to
preservation and the character of Boston's built environment.
“Recognition of the hard work of our team that completed
this two-year renovation is important to us” said
John Tyler. “I am really proud of my wife,
Melissa who was not only the vision and driving force of this project but also
the General Contractor in charge of the day-to-day work on the building.”
“The award is really a great accomplishment for our neighborhood
project,” said Melissa Tyler. “But what really makes us proud is the 17 new businesses
that call the building home. They are generating jobs and wealth
for their families on a corner of Maverick square that had been abandoned and
empty for 24 years"
In a joint statement John and
Melissa Tyler said "We wish to thank the City of Boston Department of
Neighborhood Development, and First Priority Credit Union whose faith in us
enabled this project to go ahead and allow us to show that small, local developers
can invest in their communities and produce huge results. We would like to thank our elected
officials who helped support this project from the initial Request For
Proposal, to zoning and permitting and to occupancy permit. Most of all we would like to thank
the whole community of East Boston that visit the building and do business
within it."
Other winners this year include
Liberty Mutual's headquarters in Back Bay, the LogMein Headquarters in Fort
Point Channel and the North Bennet Street School in the North End.
Previous years winners include
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the
Isabella Stuart Gardener Museum extension and the new Spaulding rehabilitation
hospital facility in Charlestown.
Previous winners from East Boston include the Sumner Street Firehouse that
houses Zumix and the Barnes School at 127 Marion Street.
On the first floor retail level,
the Maverick Marketplace building houses:
The second floor houses:
The third and fourth floor of the
building house two apartments.
For more information, visit BPA press release
The
Preservation Achievement Awards Ceremony will be held Tuesday, October 21, 2014
at historic Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston