Overview
- Reporting on Wednesday shows crews will begin a multi-month relocation this week that will take the Citgo sign offline for at least six months.
- Suffolk plans to shift the structure 30 feet higher and 120 feet east on the same 660 Beacon Street rooftop rather than remove it from the building.
- The company says Citgo’s logo will be removed this summer, the sign’s superstructure will be taken down, and white panels and lettering will be re‑affixed in a phased reinstallation from August through October.
- It is not yet clear how the move will change views from Fenway Park or along the Boston Marathon route, and some sightlines already changed after Whoop’s new rooftop sign was installed at One Kenmore Square.
- The relocation is the final phase of a Related Beal redevelopment that follows a 2017 agreement to keep the sign on 660 Beacon, and the change could alter fans’ familiar skyline views and how the sign reads from key public vantage points.