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Small church, ramshackle buildings could be replaced by mixed-use development on Warren Street in Roxbury

Developer John Cruz will file plans with the BRA for a $47-million, 95-unit apartment complex with retail and office space on Warren Street between Clifford and Waverly streets.

In a letter of intent submitted last week, Cruz said the development will include 95 apartments in two four- or five-story buildings, 3,115 square feet of first-floor retail space and 9,684 square feet of first-floor office space.

Existing buildings on the site, which include the Church of God of Prophecy, would be torn down.

Cruz said he would include about 104 parking spaces in a garage.

The proposal calls for the first, 51-unit building to be aimed at "workfoce" housing for people making just below or just above the area average median income, on a piece of land now mainly owned by the city Department of Neighborhood Development.

280-290 Warren St. letter of intent (2.1M PDF).

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Curious to what the current median income is in Roxbury. I live in eastie and I know that the median income about 5 years ago was about the same as the current average rents scaled to a year.

I really wonder If Boston and other costal cities are going to become like european cities where the poor live far out away from the city and the upper classes live in the city.

Dont get me wrong im not against new people moving into my neighbourhood, I welcome them with open arms! I dont get upset when a white person walks down my street. I dont get upset when I see new development. I don't get upset when a developer builds crappy appartments and markets it as luxury. Wouldn't you sell your toyota for much more if you can convince it buyers its a lexus???

I don't get upset because my neighborhoord is better and safer than ever. (fyi yes eastie is much safer than ever. Look up the crime stats, Men lie women lie numbers dont!)

I just love the city where I was raised in along with familly and friends and myself grew up in! It's just really depressing seeing friends get evicted and neighborhood change dramatically and knowing that moving away far away from home is the only financially responsible thing to do. At the end of the day it is what it is. If anything is learned from this housing cycle is, the more ownership the more control!

At the end of the day eastie made me the man I'm today a hardworking humble person! Thanks eastie!

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