Tenants,

Thank you all for your patience and cooperation as we work to clean up and restore the property following Saturday night’s fire.  Earlier this week, in addition to basic clean-up and securing the site, a comprehensive survey of damage was performed which will serve as the backbone of the restoration efforts.

Two restrooms have been disabled due to damage and need for restoration, one on each floor.  All four restrooms will need to be renovated completely but will be done in shifts, one each on each floor at a time.

Last night significant wall and ceiling demolition was performed in the back stairway to remove water damaged materials and to expose areas for further drying and inspection.

A hazardous materials survey was performed prior and all hazardous materials are being contained and removed with your safety a foremost priority.

Selective demolition of areas in the back stairway will continue tomorrow; we have not been told of any additional closures that would affect traffic up and down the stairs, but please use the front stairway for access up and down while crews are working in the back stairway.

Thank you.  Feel free to call or email with concerns or questions.

Pine@Boylston

We regret to inform you that a significant fire occurred in the 1605 building over the weekend, Saturday night.  We are pleased to inform you, however, that it was controlled and there is minimal damage to the majority of the building spaces.  Thanks to Chris Rodgers who actually was doing the night-owl-thing, working saturday night at 2:30 when he smelled smoke.  Without his involvement it would have been much worse.  Also a big thank you to the 40+ firefighters to showed up to locate and battle the blaze.

The blaze started as an electrical fire in the ceiling of the basement and spread up a plumbing chase adjacent to the rear stairwell.

We have clean up crews working at the building.  Throughout the next several weeks/month we will be removing some of the burnt building materials and replacing with new.  It will take that long for the smell to dissipate.  Please be patient with the messes, workers, and smells throughout that time.

If you have specific concerns that we can address: excessive smell, if any plumbing or electrical seems not to be working, etc… please let Peter or Adam know.  pkuchan@realassetsps.com or asimon@realassetsps.com.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.  And thank you very much to Chris Rodgers for saving the day.

Pine@Boylston