Time is running out on a planned Fenway Center groundbreaking in 2013.

The BBJ reports the $500 million dollar project that will stretch over the Massachusetts turnpike is in danger of failing to reach its 2013 deadline, thanks to past lawsuits and equity partner changes.

A press release from Chelsea-based Architectural Team sent to the BBJ stated “the much-anticipated and much-delayed Fenway Center development, solar power and all, just cleared the final barriers to construction… it recently received the final approval from Boston’s Department of Transportation…there could be steel in the ground at the 4.5-acre site around the intersection of Brookline and Beacon streets as early as this fall.”

The Fenway Center, a.k.a. parcel 7, will extend over the Mass pike and stretch onto land to include parking space between Beacon Street and Brookline Street. Five buildings, a 27-story office tower, 500 residences, 150,000 square-feet of retail space, nearly 1,300 parking spots have also been proposed, and one of the state’s largest private solar power plants by Meredith Management developer John Rosenthal.

The project also includes a $13.5 million dollar MBTA Yawkey Way Commuter Rail Station, funded by the state. Construction of the station began in 2011 and is scheduled to be completed in the coming months. Meredtih Management claims that the station will provide direct access to South Station.

Yawkey Station is set to be the first “zero net energy” MBTA station in the city.

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