Developers Propose New Gateway To TD Garden

Delaware North Companies and Boston Properties have proposed a grand new entrance to the TD Garden and the MBTA's North Station.

Plans filed Thursday with the city point to a two-tower, 1.7 million square-foot mixed-use development.

The project will include 600,000 square feet of commercial office space and up to 300,000 square feet of retail space.

Five hundred residential units and 200 hotel rooms would round out one of the city's largest commercial developments.

The project would sit on a 2.8-acre site that housed the old Boston Garden. The space has been used as a parking lot since the new stadium opened in the mid-1990s.

The project is one of several mixed-use developments on the drawing board for the area.

Delaware North Chairman and CEO Jeremy Jacobs owns the Boston Bruins, who play at the Garden.