BOSTON-Just one year after saying it would lease its underutilized Boston buildings, the First Church of Christ, Scientist plans to redevelop its Back Bay property and should have a design team in place by the end of the year.

Philip G. Davis, manager of the Committees on Publication, tells GlobeSt.com that plans call for the creation of residential, office or retail space on the church’s 14-acre, nine-building campus on Massachusetts and Huntington avenues. Construction, however, will not actually begin for years as the church works with its design team and the city to ensure that any changes are an enhancement to the existing campus. The church’s well-known plaza with its reflective pool and fountain, designed in the 1960s by a firm owned by well-known architect I.M. Pei, will continue as open public space, Davis says.

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