Rebecca A. Lee
Representative permitting and real estate matters include:
- Advised Wentworth Institute of Technology on the development of a 972-bed student housing facility in Boston, MA, structured as a public-private partnership and financed through a tax-exempt and taxable bond issuance, including negotiation of the ground lease and development -related agreements.
- Advised Tufts University on the development of a 654-bed student housing facility in Medford, MA, structured as a public-private partnership and financed through a tax-exempt bond issuance, including negotiation of the ground lease and development-related agreements.
- Redevelopment of the former Bayside Exposition Center property into a 5+ million square-foot mixed-use development to include office, laboratory, residential, retail, and other commercial uses, as well as new open space areas.
- Development of new office building, parking garage, and city-owned park, including a new city street, in South Boston.
- Development of a multiple residential rental and condominium projects (including affordable housing).
- Development of a new life sciences building and rehabilitation of an historic building in Boston’s Fort Point Channel area.
- Development of a 1,555 key branded convention center hotel on a site ground leased from a public authority.
- Development of two branded hotels on a South Boston site ground leased from a public authority.
- Development of a branded hotel on a downtown Boston property ground leased from a public agency.
- Development of mixed-income and affordable housing in the Mission Hill and Chinatown neighborhoods of Boston on sites ground leased from public agencies, utilizing public subordinate debt and low-income housing tax credit equity.
- Development of affordable housing in the Chinatown and South End neighborhoods.
- Representation of a major institutional lender making mortgage and construction loans for residential and office projects.
- Historic rehabilitation of office and commercial space.
- Development Agreement for construction of a minor league baseball stadium in the Midwest.
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Mintz represented the joint venture of The Davis Companies and the Omni Hotel Corp. affiliates in the negotiation of a development agreement for a project to transform a vacant Boston parcel into a 1,054-key hotel. Mintz is providing all real estate, environmental, and permitting legal services.
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Mintz closed a joint venture agreement and acquisition of a pre-permitted, mixed-use retail and residential development in Boston within a seven-day deadline. Mintz Real Estate, Corporate, Litigation, and Environmental attorneys worked on the deal.
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Mintz and ML Strategies helped GE with acquisition and planning for its new headquarters campus in Boston. Attorneys and professionals with real estate, land use, environmental permitting, and construction experience worked with ML Strategies to help guide the public/private collaborative effort.
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Mintz counsels Harvard University regarding its ownership of Allston Landing, the site of a Massachusetts Turnpike interchange and former railyard. Mintz negotiated an agreement that included remediation of earlier contamination and assists Harvard in dealings with Massachusetts state agencies.