The
Druker Company
50 Federal Street, Suite 1000
Boston, MA 02110-2585
This company is a specialist in landmark-scale, urban, mixed-use development. Founded in 1901 and based in Boston, the company develops, owns, acquires and manages office, retail, residential, parking, hotel and mixed-use properties. The company's president, Ronald M. Druker, formerly served as a faculty member at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for nearly a decade.
The Druker Company last year won a lengthy competition sponsored by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Center for the Arts to develop a 400,000-square-foot, mixed-use complex, with a 250,000-square-foot building that will include performing arts theaters, visual arts studios and classrooms, an auction house, condominiums, restaurants, retail stores and a market, and 150,000 square feet of below-grade parking. This complex, a public-private partnership, will become the gateway to Boston's South End. The company won a similar competition sponsored by the City of Boston to develop The Heritage on The Garden, a 500,000-square-foot mix of condominiums and office, retail and restaurant space overlooking Boston's Public Garden. In 1996, this building received the Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence, the premier award for urban development.
The Druker Company has chosen Elkus/Manfredi Architects, Ltd., of Boston, as its architectural partner on the gateway project. This full-service design firm, founded in 1988, provides architecture, master planning, urban design, interior architecture, space planning and programming. The firm recently completed the design of Sansom Common, a major mixed-use complex now under construction on the edge of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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