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Developers get ready to file formal plans for new apartments next to Mattapan Square T stop

By adamg on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 12:37pm
Mattapan apartment proposal

Architect's rendering, featuring token black person.

Developers this week signaled their formal intent to replace a parking lot next to the Mattapan Square trolley station with a two-building, 144-unit mixed-income development.

In a letter to the BPDA, Preservation of Affordable Housing and Nuestra Comunidad Development Corp., said the bulk of the $57-million project would be in one six-story building housing housing 135 apartments, from studios to three-bedrooms, with a mix of affordable and market-rate units.. A second, four-story building, planned for latter in development, would house nine condos.

The two groups won development rights to the 2.6-acre parcel, which runs along River Street near the Mattapan High-Speed Line, from the MBTA. The project includes 50 parking spaces for T riders - and 70 for project residents - in an underground garage.

By submitting the letter, they indicated they would file more detailed plans within two months.

Letter of intent (973k PDF).

Neighborhoods: 
Mattapan
Topics: 
Development
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Mattapan Square
BPDA


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Comments

By Rat on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 8:30pm.

Was gonna make a joke about the one black dude in the photo but I see you already did. Has this architect ever been to Mattapan?

By SC on Sun, 08/13/2017 - 2:29pm.

I work at a majority-minority institution. It's amazing how many times we've had to point out to architects that the people in the renderings need to match the demographics of our community. If I didn't have that experience, I'd say there was some signalling on who the developer sees as target residents going on (of course, that could still be the case).

By adamg on Sun, 08/13/2017 - 2:38pm.

Is both developers should be very well versed in the demographics of the community.