Christina Frawley helped her daughter Margaret move into temporary Boston University housing at 1047 Commonwealth Ave., recently renovated as 180 apartments.
Christina Frawley helped her daughter Margaret move into temporary Boston University housing at 1047 Commonwealth Ave., recently renovated as 180 apartments.
By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF SEPTEMBER 05, 2016
The new six-story building on Commonwealth Avenue wasn’t built to be a dorm. But during the last week, 180 Boston University students have moved in.
The arrangement is part of a two-year deal BU made with the building’s developer to lease out the space as student housing. It’ll be like any other dorm, complete with RAs and university housing rules, while BU renovates its Myles Standish Hall in Kenmore Square. Once those upgrades are complete, the plan is for 1047 Commonwealth Ave. to go back on the city’s rental market.
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