Millennium Place single-handedly transformed an undesirable urban neighborhood known as the "Combat Zone" into a high-quality, mixed-use destination. The project fits seamlessly into Boston's urban fabric; it complements the neighborhood's existing mix of uses and encourages 24-hour activity, while creating an incontrovertible sense of place and anchoring the emerging district. Encased in the complex's two towers are a hotel, residences, cinemas, fitness facilities, restaurants, retail, parking, and extended-stay suites.

The architecture is both unique to its local context and emphatically forward-looking.

The buildings work at multiple scales: tower and city, block and street, façade and pedestrian. Further, the architecture resolves a complex program of uses in that it provides distinctive accommodation for all the components and a singular contemporary identity for the project. The project has been a critical success. The theaters are the highest grossing in Boston; the apartments sold quickly; and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel has the highest occupancy rates in the city. There has been substantial redevelopment of neighboring properties.