Under a green awning: Plans unwrapped for two Allston music venues topped by apartments

A developer and two music impresarios this week filed detailed plans with the Boston Planning Department for a nine-story building at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street in Allston that will feature a return of Great Scott from the other end of Harvard as well as the continued existence of O'Brien's Pub, all topped by 139 apartments.

In their filing, developer Jordan Warshaw, who put up the Raffles Hotel and is building a large apartment complex in Readville, Carl Lavin, who long worked at Great Scott and Paul Armstrong, who runs Boston entertainment Web site Vanyaland, outline their proposal:

The 300-person capacity Great Scott will sit directly at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street, flanked on one side by a reinvigorated O'Brien's Pub, another smaller (75-person capacity) music venue that sits on the Project Site today, and on the other side by two retail spaces and the entrance to the Project's residential component. Above Great Scott will sit 139 rental apartments and residential amenities. In all, the Project will contain approximately 97,300 square feet of space and will be nine stories tall and approximately 105 feet in height. There is a limited basement area for building services and support spaces for the two clubs. There is no tenant parking associated with the Project, but the Site will include three on-site car share parking spaces.

Some 24 of the apartments will be rented as affordable.

Each of the apartments will have an in-unit bike mount; the building will also have storage room for another 40 bikes for residents and 39 spots for visitors to hitch their bikes.

The building will have all electric appliances and systems and will include six shade trees to the street along Harvard and Cambridge.

The developers expect construction to take roughly 18 months, which they say they would likely start four to six months after the Boston Planning Department approves the plans.

In August, the Boston Licensing Board approved the developers' plans to take over O'Brien's - and its liquor license.

The site is next to the old Allston post office, which, under plans approved by the city, will be replaced with a six-story residential building. City Realty also has approval to replace or revamp buildings at and near the intersection, including the now derelict one across Harvard Avenue from the proposed Great Scott building.

The green awning is meant as an homage to the one that covered the entrance to Great Scott when it was at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues before closing in the early days of the pandemic. Because it will overhang the sidewalk, it will need the approval of the city's Public Improvement Commission.

1 Harvard Ave. filings and meeting/comment schedule.