Here’s the latest installment of Bates By the Numbers, a weekly feature by Boston real estate agent David Bates that drills down into the Hub’s housing market to uncover those trends and people you would not otherwise notice. Follow him on Twitter and check out his ebook, Context: Nine Key Condo Markets, 2.0.
The sales center at Millennium Tower off Washington Street in Downtown Crossing has a doorman like a luxury hotel… But it’s only a sales center. “That’s a conscious decision and an effort that every touch point is something that conveys the experience of what it would be like to be in one of our buildings,” Richard Baumert, a partner at developer Millennium Partners, explained Wednesday. Since 1991, MP has developed 28 luxurious mixed-used projects, including a building that was named one of the 10 best residential buildings in the world. Simply put: They know how to market new, luxury buildings.
