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Lafayette Place Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedReinhabitedRetrofit builtBoston, MA

Redeveloped · Reinhabited in 1997. · from the fields below

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Place

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 km

This site: 1,660 units in 18 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with this

3+ other atlas sites within 10 km

This site: 9 within 10 km computed · all sites with this

Bike network nearby

This site: 347 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

County typical rent $2,000+

This site: $3,190/mo zillow · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 16 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High-income tract ($100k+)

This site: $214,097 census-acs · all sites with this

National Register place within 500 m

This site: Newspaper Row; Wigglesworth Building nps-nrhp · all sites with this

Shrinking county

This site: -1.2% census-acs · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: Reinhabitation: mixed use and office Redevelopment: 3 additional stories arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

Reinhabited

This site: Reinhabitation: mixed use and office Redevelopment: 3 additional stories arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

New use

Mixed use

This site: Reinhabitation: mixed use and office Redevelopment: 3 additional stories arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

Office

This site: Reinhabitation: mixed use and office Redevelopment: 3 additional stories arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

MA, Boston: Lafayette Place Mall/ Lafayette Corporate Center, 1997
• Reinhabitation: mixed use and office
• Redevelopment: 3 additional stories

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Redeveloped · Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
What is there now	Reinhabitation: mixed use and office Redevelopment: 3 additional storiesauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	1997authors' map reported

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	124: 10 TEMPLE PLACE LP; 399 WASHINGTON LLC; 600 WASHINGTON STREET; A&A TOOL AND DIE CO; A.W. PERRY/JAYMOUNTEPA FRS
Census tract 25025070104	2,413 people, 8,204 per sq mi; median household income $214,097; median gross rent $3,501; 41% renters; 22.5% vacant units; 12.8% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 16 grocers, 18 schools, 142 parks or playgrounds, 14 health, 40 civic, 308 food and drink; 347 cycleway segments, 892 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
National Register places within 500 m	15: Newspaper Row; Wigglesworth Building; Bedford Building; Wirth, Jacob, BuildingsNPS
Housing permits, Suffolk County (MA), 2024	1,771 units in 5+ unit buildings, 162 in 2–4, 74 single-family; 2023: 2,288 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.32; socioeconomic 0.17; housing and transport 0.94; 24% below 150% of poverty; 45% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	9 within 10 km, 21 within 25 km: 15 Court Square (0.5 km); 85 Devonshire St. (0.5 km); Orchard Gardens (0.6 km); Filene's landmark flagship store (0.6 km); Assembly Mall (4.6 km)computed
Overture Maps	no place match; building footprint 11,853 m², 29.0 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views	7,139 since 2015; 1,108 in the last 12 months (-22% vs the prior 12); peak 2023-11 with 380Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively moderate overall (score 61.7); expected annual loss $1.6M; community resilience very highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	18 LIHTC properties, 1,660 units: South Cove Plaza (231 units); New Mass Pike Towers (200 units); Stearns Apts (140 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	31,997 jobs in 2,236 establishments; average annual pay $61,461; employment location quotient 0.45; employment -0.8% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	92,558 jobs; 1,489 in retail trade, 2,095 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 25025070104)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 50th income percentile as adults; 0.1% incarcerated at the 2010 count (62 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 21.4%; median family income $127,037; 524 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Boston School District (PK-12); 6 public schools within 1 mile: Snowden International High School; Eliot K-8 Innovation School; Quincy Elementary School; Melvin H. King South End AcademyNCES EDGE
Elevation	27 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	119 county-logged events: 63 thunderstorm wind, 30 flood, 21 flash flood, 4 hail; $621,000 property damage reported; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 02111, 2026-09	median list price $1,019,500 (-25.1% on the year); 51 active listings; median 70 days on market; 19% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	2,298 establishments (-5%); 40,614 jobs (+26%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $738,589 (+0% 1 yr, +8% 5 yr); typical rent $3,190/mo (+2% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research

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Elsewhere on the web

Pages with photos

Anyone remember Lafayette Place Mall in Downtown Crossing? Had it ... reddit.com
Lafayette Place Mall Boston MA 1984 | Mod Betty / RetroRoadmap.com ... flickr.com
Centrum Realty & Development – Lafayette Corporate Center centrumrd.com

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
median rent $2,069

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History and original facts

Now called / also known as	Lafayette Corporate Center
County	Suffolk County
Census division	1 · New England

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Background

The LaFayette Place Mall is an urban shopping mall and mixed-use complex in downtown Boston. It is now named Lafayette City Center.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1997 Retrofit: redevelop, reinhabit

Sources

Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20
Wikipedia: Lafayette Place Mall · 2026-01-10 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Lafayette Place Mall, Boston, MA." Record m-d9b398f7d8, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ma/boston-lafayette-place-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_bostonlafayetteplacemall,
  title = {Lafayette Place Mall, Boston, MA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ma/boston-lafayette-place-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-d9b398f7d8, release 2026.10.20, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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