Architect's rendering.
The owner of Perkins Supply on West Broadway, where it turns into East Broadway, has filed plans to tear down the building and the neighboring Dunkin' Donuts and replace them with a five-story condo building with an underground garage and first-floor retail space.
In a filing with the BRA, Frank Sorrenti proposes 18 condo units - 2 of them marketed as affordable - and a garage with space for 21 cars and numerous bicycles. Sorrenti would also make an unspecified payment to the BRA's fund for building affordable housing.
The building skin will be a composition of brick panels with large floor-to-ceiling glazing covering the majority of the exterior façades, with accents of metal panels. The materials and façade details are intended to visually interrupt the massing of the building along its elevations in order to better integrate with the West Broadway and Dorchester Street streetscapes.
Sorrenti hopes to begin work on the $8.4-million project in mid-2017, with construction expected to take about a year.
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Application images
By ElizaLeila
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 12:20pm
The 3D images in the application show a little more life than what the flat elevation shows above. Granted it's still block-y and bereft of of those details we'd love to see, but it's not as completely lacking as the comments above imply.
The hard part is the construction industry, hand in hand with developers, has lost the skills that would allow for the prized handwork we so desire. We don't have masons so much as we have bricklayers. We don't have woodworkers, we have rough carpentry. Stonework is the same. These critical skills are gone because they cost more and developers aren't paying for it, and thus training doesn't cover it. Unless the student feels so moved to seek out serious training. And that is few and far between.
More of the Same
By A.S. Merrimac
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 3:59pm
More cheaply built boring, bland crap polluting our neighborhood. it's time to kill the BRA. While what's there no has no historic or architectural value this bland 1960's throwback has nothing in common with it's surrounding neighborhood. The Broadway elevation looks like a rip off the Boston Globe on the Blvd! We should demand much better than this, but we as a community have turned our back on historic preservation-a powerful tool we could have used to save our neighborhood. Each one of these "just small enough" developments is radically altering the fabric of our neighborhood, creating a mini-downtown that will most like wither when the SB Waterfront is built-out like the South End did when the Back Bay was developed. Without traffic studies or transit upgrades in place BEFORE development we are bequeathing our children a diminished neighborhood.
We will pay a heavy price in fifty years or so as all this cheap construction ages. And the next generation of politicians will still be spouting excuses and rationalizations.
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