Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Want a rooftop cabana near Fenway? That’ll be $300,000


The Pierce Boston building at Boylston Street and Brookline Avenue
will offer 12 open-air decks to condo buyers. Each will run more than $300,000.
HANDOUT; KEITH BEDFORD/GLOBE STAFF

By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF  JUNE 21, 2016

For $350,000, you can buy a four-bedroom house in, say, Framingham, or a condo in Dorchester.

Or, if you are among a select few, you can buy a 16-by-16-foot patch of roof deck in the Fenway.

In the latest salvo of “Can you top this?” by luxury real estate developers, Samuels & Associates is selling something straight out of South Beach on the roof of its Pierce Boston building that is under construction: “sky cabanas.”

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