The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) has finalized a deal with local restaurateurs Patrick Lyons and Jasper White to open a seafood and steak restaurant on Boylston Street inside the historic John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center.

The seafood, steak and chop house is scheduled to open later this year adjacent to the

Prudential Center Plaza and is the first time a restaurant has operated out of the Hynes. Owned and operated by Lyons and White and designed by the renowned Jeffrey Beers

International, the construction and operation has and will create hundreds of new jobs.

The MCCA remains in lease negotiations with a second proposed restaurant to be built at the corner of Boylston and Dalton streets.

Both restaurants are part of an $18 million renovation at the Hynes designed to improve public access to the facility and transform it into a modern, technologically advanced congress center in the heart of the Back Bay.

The restaurant concept stems from recommendations made by the Hynes Convention

Center and Boston Common Parking Garage Commission, which was established by the

Massachusetts Legislature in 2004 to analyze the continued use of the Hynes as a convention facility.