A developer has proposed a 40-unit apartment development on Blue Hill Avenue between Quincy and Holborn streets that would include 27 affordable units and 5 apartments for people who make just a bit too much too qualify for those.
In addition to a four-story apartment building, the Community Builders, Inc. is proposing a two-family house as part of the construction, which would replace a series of city-owned lots that have been vacant for decades.
In a filing with the BRA, the developer is proposing 32 parking spaces and bicycle storage, as well as first-floor retail space.
In addition, the Community Builders would create "a dedicated, contemplative/memorial open space on the Blue Hill Avenue/Quincy Street corner."
Community Builders hopes to begin construction this fall, with occupancy ready in the winter of 2016/2017.
Project notification form (6.8M PDF).
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The city should offer some
By anon
Sat, 03/14/2015 - 2:09pm
The city should offer some incentives to make this project more dense
on a lighter note
By cybah
Sat, 03/14/2015 - 4:47pm
Oh boy I can't wait for the Icicle of Death that will come crashing down from that nice overhang on the upper right.
I love that we're getting some new construction in, but some times I think the architects forget we have things like winter and snow and stuff around here.
I'll spin that
By KBHer
Sat, 03/14/2015 - 8:16pm
Call it a "temporary art installation" and were good to go.
Glad they're building this
By Brookline
Sat, 03/14/2015 - 9:03pm
I'm glad they're building this, but it's so bleak, so plain, so cheap. It looks like a small version of the projects built in the forties that have now all been imploded in favor of Section 8 vouchers. Are we going in circles?
Doesn't look like the 1940s at all
By anon
Sun, 03/15/2015 - 12:39pm
(1) There's ground floor retail. (2) It is built next to the sidewalk.
The stuff built in the 40s was all surrounded by acres of empty greenspace, with no retail at all. Partly why such projects were a disaster.
Before the vacant lots
By anon
Sun, 03/15/2015 - 7:51am
City of Boston Archives - Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street, Roxbury, September 1948
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives...
It's about time!!
By mplo
Sun, 03/15/2015 - 6:51pm
The building of affordable housing for people really and truly in need of decent lodging is long, long overdue, imho! It's about time that affordable, subsidized housing were built.
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