The Zoning Board of Appeal this week gave Hudson Group another year to begin construction of its planned 22-story, 115-unit condo building at 150 Kneeland St. near South Station. Read more.
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By adamg - 1/10/24 - 12:46 pm
Rendering of the two building showing their central plaza by Joy Street Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a proposal for a two-building complex with 35 affordable apartments and 22 affordable condos off Saratoga Street in Orient Heights, but the owner of a commercial building behind which the complex would sit says one of the proposed access routes, via a private way, would violate an easement. Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/24 - 9:55 am
Rendering by Nicholas Landry, DRT.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Pauline and Tony King of 164 Savin Hill Ave. in Dorchester to enlarge their single-family home into a three-condo building. Read more.
By adamg - 1/9/24 - 12:21 pm
Rendering by Embarc.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to raze the current unused post office on Harvard Avenue, a repair garage and some parking lots to put up a six-story, 170-unit apartment complex that would have ground-floor room for the Postal Service to return to Allston. Read more.
By adamg - 12/15/23 - 12:57 pm
Rendering by Context.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved a four-story, 28-unit apartment building at 1081 River St. in Hyde Park. Read more.
By adamg - 12/12/23 - 12:50 pm
Rendering by Lucio Trabucco.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the owner of the Baker Street Market at Baker and Vermont street in West Roxbury to replace his store and parking lot with a four-story, 14-unit condo building with 23 parking spaces - and a smaller space for him to keep operating the market. Read more.
By adamg - 12/12/23 - 12:27 pm
Rendering by CBT Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a six-story, 206-unit apartment building at 1270 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, where the lights currently remain on at what is a long vacant former CVS. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 5:27 pm
Rendering of project on lot that touches Fields Corner Red Line stop by Hue Architecture.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a five-story building with 14 studio apartments on a lot that ends at a wall for the Fields Corner Red Line stop in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 4:16 pm
Rendering of proposed Milton Avenue condos showing the parking by Anthony Pisani.
When residents said Onyx Management and Development's plans for six condos in three attached buildings at 45 Milton Ave. in Dorchester would lead to parking woes on the street, the company responded with a proposal for nine parking spaces in a backyard that would be taken up almost entirely by a driveway and the spaces, with room for just three or four potted shrubs. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 1:30 pm
Rendering by Isgenuity.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a new three-story home for the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center on Old Road between Ellington Street and Michigan Avenue in Dorchester, basically to the rear of its existing facilities on Blue Hill Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/23 - 12:49 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today gave its blessing to a plan by City Realty to convert some fire-ravaged living space into four apartments above the old Jacob Wirth that it's now converting into a new Jacob Wirth on Stuart Street. Read more.
By adamg - 11/29/23 - 2:11 pm
Rendering by McKay Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a four-story, 44-unit apartment building at 25-37 Dighton St., across from the Winship School, in Brighton Center. Read more.
By adamg - 11/29/23 - 11:23 am
Rendering of new building by SLS Architecture and photo of current garage turned studio next to the Brookliner.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by two artists to replace their small cinderblock garage turned studio at 171 Corey Rd., near Washington Street in Brighton, into a five-story building with two floors of artist space and three floors with a total of six residential units. Read more.
By adamg - 11/28/23 - 3:16 pm
McKay Place rendering by Zephyr Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a 41-unit condo building at McKay Place and Maverick Street in Jeffries Point and two apartment building with a total of 41 units at the Orient Heights rotary where Saratoga, Ford and Boardman streets meet. Read more.
By adamg - 11/15/23 - 10:04 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a marijuana dispensary at 1295-1297 River St., in Hyde Park, but owner Geneise Israel said that even if she now quickly gets the required state approval, she won't open her door until after the decaying and now closed River Street Bridge right next door is re-opened. Read more.
By adamg - 11/14/23 - 2:50 pm
Rendering by Context, showing expanded convent building next to old church.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today deferred a vote on a developer's proposal to turn the former St. Matthew convent, 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester, into 14 condos - two of them affordable - to give the developer and neighbors a couple more months to try to reach agreement on the size of the project, in particular, its roof. Read more.
By adamg - 11/13/23 - 9:38 pm
The Hamilton Co., which owns the office building at 392-398 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Cleveland Circle, today sued to try to block plans by an Ipswich concern to turn the former Dunkin' Donuts on Beacon Street into a marijuana dispensary. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/23 - 3:17 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a plans to replace Cathedral Station, 1222 Washington St. in the South End, with a marijuana dispensary. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/23 - 11:52 am
Rendering by Arrowstreet.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a 41-unit, five-story apartment building at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. at Culbert Street in Mattapan. Read more.
By adamg - 10/19/23 - 2:16 pm
Rendering by Choo & Company, shows new and existing buildings.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved developer Joe Hassell's plans for a six-story, 45-unit apartment building on what is now a vacant lot at 34 B St., next to the similar building he'd earlier built at the corner of B and West 5th streets in South Boston.
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