Those little plaques you step on every few feet on the sidewalks? Each reads “You Are Here” in a different one of the 62 languages that are spoken in Somerville. When you’re here, you can see it show up in big and small ways. Tell us something(s) we don't know about the area.Īssembly Row may be the new kid on the block, but we’re passionate about our history and our connection to Somerville. Not bad for what used to be the state’s biggest brownfields site. All complemented by a new public plaza that will feature bocce courts, fountain and fire features, and bookended by jewel-box retail buildings. Partners Healthcare opened its headquarters on the southern end of our campus and began moving in its employees.Īnd our office building at 450 Artisan Way became 100 percent occupied.Īnd anyone who’s been here recently knows that there’s more on the way.Ĭonstruction is ongoing on Phase 2 that will include 447 apartments, 122 condos (which are almost 60 percent sold already), a 159-room boutique hotel, and another 170,000 square feet of retail. We opened Muse Paintbar, providing another entertainment option. In the last year alone, we’ve added more restaurants with Totto Ramen and Southern Kin (we’re a little partial to the chicken and waffles). It seems like there’s something new just about every time you come, some new way to create your experience-whether you live here, work here, shop here, or just relax here. But we think this shows how Assembly Row continues to mature. We were ecstatic to win the Curbed Cup once, never mind twice.
He also answers the haters who don’t (at least not yet) consider Assembly Row a proper neighborhood.Īssembly Row has famously repeated in the Curbed Cup. Patrick McMahon, director of development at Assembly Row developer Federal Realty Investment Trust, breaks down over email what makes the neighborhood tick and what to expect in 2017-and beyond. Somerville’s Assembly Row won the Curbed Cup earlier this month for the second consecutive year, meaning that a plethora of Curbed Boston readers consider the newish enclave on the Mystic the region’s best neighborhood.
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