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John Nucci is retiring from Suffolk University, leaving a reshaped campus behind

'The entire footprint of the university has changed,' Nucci said. 'We now have a campus spine that runs along Tremont and Washington streets almost from City Hall [south] to Avery Street.' Advertisement Nucci said that when he first joined the Suffolk administration in 2006, after teaching there as an adjunct for 14 years, it was important to him to move the school away from the residential areas of Beacon Hill — to improve town-gown relations, and to modernize the school's buildings. 'If you stroll from one end of our downtown campus to the other ... you can see the hand of John Nucci,' Suffolk president Marisa Kelly said in a memo to staff, calling Nucci a critical liaison between the university and local civic leaders. During his lifelong career in public service, Nucci has served on the city's school board, the city council, and as clerk magistrate in Suffolk Superior Court. Advertisement Retirement is not the same as goodbye. Nucci will still serve on the Massachusetts Port Authority's board of directors, and he suspects he might get involved in civic affairs in some other capacity. 'The odds say that I won't be able to stay away from the action, but we'll see what happens,' Nucci said. 'For now, it's time to get off the merry-go-round.' This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene. Jon Chesto can be reached at