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BRA approves condos for Roslindale Square
By adamg on Fri, 12/11/2015 - 7:28am
The BRA board yesterday approved a proposed 19-unit condo project on Taft Hill Park, behind the Roslindale Square municipal parking lot.
The project now goes before the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Developers plan to raze the two houses on the site and put up a single building and 19 parking spaces. Initial purchasers will get a $2,000 credit toward a ride-sharing or car-renting service.
The project will be the third multi-family development in recent years in Roslindale Square.
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Comments
Approval not yet complete
This is just the end of the Article 80E Small Project Review phase. Next up will be zoning relief.
Also, I don't think it's really accurate to describe the project as including a "parking lot." It is adjacent to a parking lot, but most of the parking is within the footprint of the building.
Ayup
Fixed, thanks.
Great! More people means
Great! More people means more business for the square, and we still have tons and tons of vacant commercial space that could be filled up.
Agreed
Agreed, but in addition to density near the business district, we need to improve daytime activity--for example, have more people working in the area in offices, light manufacturing, and the like. The Brewery building in Jamaica Plain is a great example. We should also encourage people who already work in the neighborhood (e.g. medical center, social security administration, USPS, library, RMV) to shop local during the day.
Nice idea but
where are they going to work? It's nice that the substation is being renovated but that's the only large unused space I could see in the immediate area which could have supplied more non-retail commercial space.
At least until someone starts building above Diane's, Wallpaper City, the old Bob's pita, etc...
Single-story up
Right, it is a shame we have so many one-story structures in the center of town. That's major untapped potential for office/industrial, as well as live/work space. There's also potential along Belgrade, and some terrible uses of space along Washington--the often empty parking lot that belongs to Pleasant Café being a prime example of the latter.
Time to develop the municipal
Time to develop the municipal parking lot into more housing.
OLX
Lets keep it as is to have space for the T expansion
No thanks one parking lot is
No thanks one parking lot is need for people coming to the square
Keeping my fingers crossed
Hope this goes well at the zoning board. This is a good project overall and will definitely be a plus for the square.
Maybe Roche Bros can be
Maybe Roche Bros can be convinced to open a market.......