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With or without Amazon, there are big plans for Suffolk Downs

By | January 24, 2018
Developer Tom O'Brien offered Revere officials a vision of redevelopment for the Suffolk Downs site. The rendering shows the site looking toward East Boston.
Developer Tom O'Brien offered Revere officials a vision of redevelopment for the Suffolk Downs site. The rendering shows the site looking toward East Boston. (Courtesy image)

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REVERE — If the new owner of Suffolk Downs gets his way, the shuttered race track will be transformed into a vibrant neighborhood with homes, green space, offices, lab buildings, shops and a hotel. Thomas O’Brien made the case for 5 million square feet of redevelopment to the Revere City Council this week. His company,…
Thomas Grillo Thomas Grillo is an award-winning business reporter who has worked at Boston's major newspapers covering real estate trends including the emergence of Assembly Square in Somerville and chronicling the growth of Boston's Seaport District. Thomas covers Peabody and Lynnfield. Follow him on Twitter @BosBizThomas.

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