Two non-profit groups say they will soon file detailed plans to rebuild the shuttered Constitution Inn at 150 3rd Ave. in the Charlestown Navy Yard into an affordable apartment building, with roughly half the units aimed at people making between $30,000 and $83,000 and the other half targeted at "households headed by women or by veterans" who were previously homeless. Read more.
The owners of the former Roxbury Boy's Club at 10 Malcolm X Blvd. in Roxbury say they will soon file plans to add two buildings to the site with a total of 140 new residential units. Read more.
A developer has proposed replacing a printing company and its parking lot at 49-51 D St. in South Boston with a nine-story, 75-unit residential building with ground-floor commercial space. Read more.
Rendering with lens flare by Vanko Studio.
Ed. note: Story updated to note the current building will not be torn down.
The owner of the building that now houses the Fernandez IV Liquors, a pizza place and a laundromat on Hancock Street at Trull Street in Dorchester has proposed adding three floors of apartments, with the liquor store and the laundromat remaining during construction. Read more.
Rendering by KDI.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a "dilapidated house " and some vacant land at 24-34 Notre St. in Roxbury with a five-story, 26-unit condo building. Read more.
Rendering by Context.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to reuse part of the former Mount Sinai Baptist Church at Wellington Hill Street and Greendale Road at Morton Street in Mattapan to create a five-story, 27-unit condo building. Read more.
Rendering by Schwartz/Silver Architects.
The Holocaust Legacy Foundation yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for the six-story Holocaust Museum and Educational Center she hopes to build at 125 Tremont St., across from the Park Street Church downtown. Read more.
A Florida developer says it will soon file plans to replace what it calls a "little used commercial building at 250 Everett St. in Allston with a six-story, 250-unit apartment building with about 117 parking spaces in an underground garage. Read more.
Holland Properties said today it will soon file plans to convert the Poor Clare Nuns monastery next to the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain into apartments and community uses - and to construct a new condo building behind the monastery. Read more.
Most developers don't need to be told twice, but the BPDA has yet again rejected a proposal by a Dallas firm to construct a nine-building, 270-unit apartment complex on what is now a heavily wooded hillside on American Legion Highway next to the Stop & Shop strip mall. Read more.
Rendering by McKay Architects.
DND Homes of Burlington has filed plans to replace three "dated" buildings with a total of between 12 and 18 apartments on Dighton Street, off Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton Center, with a four-story, 42-unit apartment building with 34 parking spaces in a garage. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the BPDA board today unanimously approved a plan to turn the Comfort Inn at 900 Morrissey Boulevard into 99 apartments. Under the proposal by Pine Street Inn and The Community Builders, the building would have full-time staff to help residents adjust to their new lives. Read more.
New Balance's development wing says it will soon file plans to replace a one-story commercial building at 131 North Beacon St., at Hichborn Street, in Brighton with a six-story, 78-unit condo building. Read more.
Rendering by Design Resource Team.
GVW Construction has filed plans with the BPDA to replace its current building at 1188 Bennington St. in East Boston with two buildings with 40 apartments - across Bennington from where another developer wants to replace what's left of a former casket factory with 220 apartments. Read more.
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority announced today it plans to start over with plans to develop six acres it owns near the South Boston convention center, rather than going forward with either of the two mixed-use development proposals it had received. Read more.
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
A developer has proposed replacing a vintage-furniture store at 115 Boston St. in Dorchester with a two-building, six-story complex with 90 "compact" apartments. Read more.
California life-sciences developer IQHQ says it will soon file plans with the BPDA to replace Marty's Liquors, which closed recently at 103 North Beacon St. in Allston - just down the street from where it hopes to build a three-building life-sciences complex. Read more.
A Houston real-estate company says it will soon file plans with the BPDA to replace an automotive warehouse and two-family house at 22-24 Pratt St. in Allston with a new residential building with 316 units. Read more.
Street-level rendering by Grassi Design Group.
The owner of the parking lot at 17 West St. in Downtown Crossing has filed plans to build a 15-story, 94-room hotel on the less than 1/10th acre parcel. Read more.
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