Converse and Zipcar are vying for approximately 100,000 square feet of space at 51 Melcher St. in Boston, according to industry sources.
The two companies are scrapping over one of the few large tracts of office space available in the Seaport neighborhood, one of the hottest of Boston’s submarkets.
Converse is in the market for about 150,000 square feet. If the sneaker company plants its flag at 51 Melcher, owned by Synergy Investment & Development, it would fill the available space there. To accommodate the other 50,000 square feet it requires, it would occupy space at 281 Summer St., owned by Normandy Real Estate Partners. An elevated pedestrian walkway would connect the buildings.
If, however, Zipcar takes the Melcher Street prize, then there are plenty of tenants waiting in the wings to fill the available space at 281 Summer St.





