Image courtesy LaSalle Investment Management.

What: 50 Post Office Square
Where: Boston
Owner: LaSalle Investment Management
Built: 1947 

A new glass box lobby completed this winter at 50 Post Office Square was designed to make the 782,000-square-foot Art Deco office tower more appealing to prospective tenants including tech companies.  

Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, the three-story, 3,000-square-foot lobby at the 110 High St. entrance creates a contemporary accent to the limestone office tower. A 100-foot media band by ESI Design is programmed with three modes that interactively play off activity in the lobby measured by ceiling sensors. 

Following a 117,000-square-foot lease with Medidata Solutions’ SHYFT Analytics division, the building’s occupancy has risen to 100 percent. Dave Martel and Gil Dailey of Newmark Knight Frank represented ownership in the Medidata lease, while Lisa Kiell and Kelly Lockberg of JLL represented Medidata Solutions. 

LaSalle owns 2.5 million square feet of real estate in Boston worth $1.1 billion. 

They Said It: 

“This new environment blurs the lines between indoor and outdoor to showcase the interactive media experience and engage the tenants, visitors and the community. It’s a project that embraces history while stepping with confidence into the future of our city.”
— Mark Sardegna, principal, Elkus Manfredi Architects