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UPDATE: Developer proposes hotel instead.
Jason Cincotta's Evergreen Property Group has filed plans with the BRA to replace a parking lot at 248 Dorchester Ave. with a 6-story, 33-unit apartment building that would feature retail space at ground level, large enough for a restaurant.
Evergreen, currently building a similar mixed-use building at 22-26 W. Broadway, says the $13-million building across from the MBTA bus depot will be "high quality, environmentally cognizant, design driven."
Four of the units would be set aside as "affordable." Evergreen proposes 33 parking spaces - but says it doubts residents will be driving all that much, given the easy walk to Broadway's burgeoning collection of cafes, restaurants and shops - and to the Broadway T stop.
In its filing, Evergreen writes:
The proposed building at 248 Dorchester Ave will be a Gateway development to the West Broadway commercial District as visitors approach from Andrew Square and Dorchester beyond. The project's design has been inspired both by the contemporary wave of development projects populating this neighborhood as well as the emerging Harrison Avenue corridor just across the expressway from the site. The duplex units with their 18' high ceilings are configured to take advantage of the spectacular views of the Back Bay to the west and the dense urban fabric of South Boston and Dorchester heights to the east. The ceiling height also maximizes day light and views for spaces deep within the plan.
Complete BRA filing (4.6M PDF).
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Finally!
By adamg
Fri, 01/09/2015 - 8:27pm
If you look at the enlarged version of the rendering, you notice this is a building for people not afraid to have others see them lounging about their living rooms in their underwear.
Broadway station
By anon
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 8:22am
Those lucky condo dwellers lounging around in their underwear will have an excellent view of passed out junkies lounging around with their pants down on the benches at Broadway station
Wear sweat pants , they are
By kvn
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 10:12am
Wear sweat pants , they are versatile. Go from inside to outside seamlessly. Hope in the old pickup truck to leave ponderosa without the added pressure to lace up work boots that accompany more formal work wear.
Sort of like this apartment building....
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 01/09/2015 - 8:58pm
" Evergreen proposes 33
By anon
Fri, 01/09/2015 - 10:21pm
" Evergreen proposes 33 parking spaces - but says it doubts residents will be driving all that much, given the easy walk to Broadway's burgeoning collection of cafes, restaurants and shops - and to the Broadway T stop."
Lies...all Lies. As much as we would like to think people will ditch their cars for using the T and bikes this is not true. They may use these things to commute to work but in most cases they also own a car or 2. Developers are lying just to justify the low amount of parking spaces they need to provide. More parking spaces should be provided to new residents. We already have a parking crisis as it is.
The tens of thousands of
By anon
Fri, 01/09/2015 - 11:10pm
The tens of thousands of people buying prewar housing units WITHOUT PARKING and the DECREASING CAR OWNERSHIP RATE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON indicate otherwise.
Pay no mind
By Goosen
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 12:55am
This is the same old recycled rhetoric used every time a new building is proposed in boston. People fear change, especially if it endangers their precious on street parking
33 new units with 33 parking spaces
By Bob Watts
Sat, 01/24/2015 - 6:03pm
Plenty of spaces. When people that must drive leave for work you can take their spot and leave it there. Likewise when it snows and that shovel out s spot and then must again move their car you can just remove their place holder and take that spot.
If this were true
By Finbar
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 6:46am
Why do I see plenty of Boston residents driving? Why does street parking get worse with every new development being built? Why is street parking non-existent near restaurants and the local watering holes? Why are buses and trains running on weekends almost empty. Why doesn't developers build WITHOUT parking if that's what people want? Keep throwing the bullshit out there on how people don't drive and want to take public transportation,and maybe you will believe yourselves. Same people who believe Suffolk Construction won't build any Olympic venues. Dream on.
Fallacy somewhere, I fancy.
By anon
Mon, 01/12/2015 - 3:43pm
Fallacy somewhere, I fancy.
Restaurant
By anon
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 8:43am
Unless it's a red lobster this plan is doomed.
And this project will undergo
By McGyver
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 9:17am
And this project will undergo a more intense community process and input than the Olympics ever will. Great job, Mayor.
where's the st peter n paul's
By kacarey
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 11:51am
where's the st peter n paul's steeple? that'a a protected historic building where the steeple was not to be hidden by new construction. what a joke, it's money above all else. the church looks like a miniature version of its once grand self. this once great neighborhood now looks like manhattan: a town of transients and a city of strangers, and zero historic character.
Except
By Waquiot
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 2:33pm
In looking at the street view of the property, the steeple is not visible currently. What a joke. What they need to do is level the whole area except for the church, including all foliage, so that we can see a church on Broadway from Dot Ave.
historical sure, but it is not a church
By paul
Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:43pm
Was converted to condos a decade or so ago... so it is not like the steeple height means anything anymore.
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