The owner of the Grampy’s gas station in Boston’s tony Beacon Hill neighborhood is getting the site ready to begin redeveloping the site into a five-story office building with ground-floor retail.  

Charles Talanian has drawn up preliminary plans to build a 28,000-square-foot office building at the 290 Cambridge St. site that sits at the foot of Beacon Hill.

The building that Talanian, who owns Boston-based C. Talanian Realty Co., plans to replace the old Grampy’s gas station would contain three floors of office space and two of retail space.

One of those retail spaces will house a new restaurant from Thomas Kershaw, now famous in the industry for operating the old Bull & Finch Pub that has been renamed Cheers after the TV show it helped inspire. Kershaw has told Talanian he plans to open a restaurant tentatively named 75 Cambridge, which will likely be similar to his 75 Chestnut eatery on Beacon Hill’s Chestnut Street.

If that happens, Kershaw will join a growing group of new restaurants that have opened on Cambridge Street in the last two years, including the Tip Tap Room and Fin’s Sushi and Grill. To date, there are no vacant storefronts along the Beacon Hill portion of Cambridge Street, according to Randi Lathrop, director for business development for the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

Read a more in-depth analysis of the development and resurgence of Beacon Hill’s Cambridge Street in Monday’s issue of Banker & Tradesman.

Beacon Hill Gas Station To Become Offices, Retail

by James Cronin time to read: 1 min
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