The Boston Globe - 20.09.2019

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TD Garden President Amy Latimer led a tour of the construction at TD Garden that is updating the the arena. The work is nearly finished.

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By Jonathan Saltzman
GLOBE STAFF
Ruth Lehmann, a renowned biologist
who is considered a world authority on
the cells that give rise to sperm and eggs,
will be the new head of the nonprofit
Whitehead Institute in Cambridge.
The appointment, announced Thurs-
day, is a homecoming for Lehmann, who

was a Whitehead Institute member and

faculty member of the Massachusetts In-

stitute of Technology from 1988 to 1996.

She left to head the cell biology depart-

ment at New York University, where she

has spent 23 years.

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity

to help shape the future of this wonder-

ful institute that has been at the

forefront of biomedical research for

decades,” said Lehmann, a 64-year-old

native of Germany.

Lehmann (right), who is also an in-

vestigator for the prestigious nonprofit

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in

Chevy Chase, Md., will succeed David

Page on July 1. He is stepping down af-

ter completing his third five-year term

as director and president.

Charles D. Ellis, who chairs the

Whitehead’s board of directors, said

Lehmann “perfectly fits” the board’s

vision for a new head. At NYU, she runs

the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular

Medicine and the Kimmel Center for

Stem Cell Biology and “possesses a

compelling vision for basic biomedical

research in the coming decade,” he said.

Lehmann is the fifth head of the 37-

year-old Whitehead Institute and the

second woman. (The late MIT biology

professor Susan Lindquist was the first.)

Biotechnology, like other fields, has

drawn criticism in recent years for

having a dearth of female leaders.

“I’m always excited to see a woman

who is deserving of a role get that role,”

said Abbie Celniker, a partner at Third

Rock Ventures in Boston, which invests

in biotech companies.

“Ruth is a great hire for the White-

head,” agreed Peter Hecht, CEO of Cam-

bridge-based Cyclerion Therapeutics

and a former Whitehead research fellow

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By Tim Logan and Janelle Nanos

GLOBE STAFF

For decades, Bulfinch Triangle has been

a place Bostonians pass through on their

way to somewhere else. The weekday tides

of workers flowing in and out of North Sta-

tion. The thousands surging into the streets

for games at the Garden. Commuters riding

on the old Central Artery or

the elevated Green Line, be-

fore the Big Dig put them un-

derground and opened Cause-

way Street to the sun.

But this formerly industri-

al section of the city is increas-

ingly becoming the connective

tissue between neighborhoods long split by

roads and rails and streets at odd angles.

Instead of a place to go through, it’s becom-

ing a place to go to. And perhaps nothing

symbolizes that shift quite like the super-

market that’s opening there Friday.

The new Star Market is two stories: a

ground-floor convenience store with a Star-

bucks, and a subterranean shopping center.

Nearby residents are practically giddy

about having a place to buy their bread and

milk.

“We’re thrilled; we haven’t had an af-

fordable grocery store in the neighborhood

for I don’t know how long,” said Jan

Breschard Wilson, president of the West

End Civic Association.

And the Star Market is just one piece of

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NotedNYUbiologistwillleadtheWhiteheadInstitute

Ruth Lehmann takes

over for David Page

July 1 as 5th director

Hub on Causeway,

a $1.1b complex, is

putting housing,

offices, eateries

and bars around

North Station. Is it

all for the better?

NYU LANGONE

A neighborhood transformed

1

Hub50House:440-unit apartment build-

ing offering VIP “membership” access to

many of the project’s other amenities

2

citizenM Hotel:272-room European-

style hotel with publicly accessible lobby

and roof deck

3

100 Causeway:510-foot office tower

leased largely to the telecom giant Verizon

and set to open in 2021

4

Retail podium:Seven stories of retail,

including Hub Hall food hall, 15-screen

ArcLight Cinemas theaters, Star Market, and

25,000-square-foot Banners Kitchen & Tap

5

New commuter and sports entrance:

home of the Bruins and Celtics; Commuter

Rail and Amtrak station

6

Office and entertainment:Headquar-

ters of the cybersecurity firm Rapid7, and

a 1,500-person concert venue run by the Big

Night Entertainment Group

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ON THE STREET

By Tim Logan

GLOBE STAFF

Later this fall, when $100 million in up-

grades to TD Garden are finished, you’ll be

able to stand at a long bar with a killer view

of Boston Harbor. And if you turn around,

you can watch the hockey game seven stories

below — live.

This is Rafters Club, the conversion of a

little-used floor at the very top of the Garden

into high-end hang space for Bruins and Celt-

ics fans. It’s one of several snazzy additions

the Garden’s owner, Delaware North, will un-

veil this season, all designed to make the

quarter-century-old arena as much a place to

go out with your friends as a place to watch a

game.

“We think that’s the future,” said TD Gar-

den’s president, Amy Latimer. “People want

BRUINS, Page B

By Janelle Nanos

GLOBE STAFF

When Hub Hall opens at the Hub on

Causeway this winter, it will have plenty of

competition, with more on the way. The Bos-

ton area is already home to two new food

halls, Bow Market in Somerville and Time

Out Market in the Fenway, and at least two

more will open soon, High Street Place in the

Financial District and the Beat in the Globe’s

old building in Dorchester.

So how does a new arrival in this crowded

scene distinguish itself?

For the folks behind Hub Hall, it meant

convincing some Boston stalwarts like Sulli-

van’s Castle Island and Mike’s Pastry to come

on board.

Hub Hall won’t tout highbrow fare,

FOOD HALL, Page B

Tostandoutfromagrowing

rosterofrivals,newestfood

hallwillfocusonthelocal

Newvenueshopeyou’ll

hangaroundbefore—

andafter—thegames

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An occasional series
looking at changing
neighborhoods in and
around Boston, from
the ground up.

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Workers readied the new Banners

Kitchen & Tap restaurant.