In its halcyon days prior to the dot-com bust almost a quarter-century ago, Globix Corp. agreed to lease the whole of the 450,000-square-foot Boston Tech Center, an empty former warehouse along the Mass. Turnpike in Allston that would be transformed into a $120 million data center for the Internet company.
Then the tech boom came to a screeching halt. Globix backed out of the Allston deal, later declared bankruptcy, and was acquired by RCN Corp. And the prominent building at 176 Lincoln St. stayed empty.
It still is, and today the vast warehouse remains a white elephant whose emptiness is all the more striking when compared with the flurry of activity in this corridor of Allston, including the huge Boston Landing campus across the highway. But that could soon change, with the Boston Planning & Development Agency board scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal by Berkeley Investments to…
