The BRA board today approved a development off Old Colony Avenue and Dorchester Street that would transform a nearly 5-acre collection of small industrial buildings into 656 condo and rental units in buildings ranging up to 24 stories tall.
Some 110 units - 25 more than required - would be marketed as affordable.
The Washington Village development would also include 99,000 square feet of retail space - including a supermarket - as well as lots of trees and almost an acre of open space, much in a new park similar in layout to the Post Office Square park downtown. Several public streets will cross the property, creating an urban-village feel.
State Sen. Linda Dorcena-Forry, state Rep. Nick Collins and city councilors Bill Linehan and Michael Flaherty all strongly supported the proposal. Several residents also spoke in favor.
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Also, it's relevant because
By anon
Tue, 08/16/2016 - 4:41pm
Also, it's relevant because that was a planned result.
You said "facts please" in response to a post that said just having a plan doesn't mean the results are automatically ideal and can't improved. The response was an example of a plan that is widely considered not to be a good one.
Also, usernames are not relevant at all to this topic. It makes you look like you are grasping for anything to respond with.
Just having a plan doesn't mean it's automatically a good thing. It's more complicated than posting links.
Clearly usernames are
By MattyC
Wed, 08/17/2016 - 9:18am
Clearly usernames are relevant because I don't know if I'm arguing against one uninformed idiot or several.
There have been many areas of
By anon
Sat, 08/13/2016 - 4:43pm
There have been many areas of the city that have not been well planned despite these sorts of meetings.
A lot of it is just buzzwords.
Good luck ......
By anon
Thu, 08/11/2016 - 11:11pm
Need to get rid of the dirty junkies leaving the station for methadone mile .
Is the BRA the designer of
By anon
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 1:06am
Is the BRA the designer of all these ugly buildings too? Why do these things always look exactly the same in the renderings?
Because: Prefabs.
By fox_orian
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 10:41am
Prefabs. They're made with ready-made mass-produced materials, (for instance, the heavy use of panels applied to the facades of buildings.) Many buildings these days are built around prefabs because it makes the construction process faster and cheaper. This also makes the buildings look the same since they have to more often cohere to dimension restrictions and such to be able to use them. It's kinda like how all the houses in suburbs look the same with slightly different layouts -- they were all built from the same kit of parts. Today's available kit of parts for medium sized structures is what you see all around Boston now.
Ditto for triple deckers
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 3:42pm
All from the same plans, with pre-cut pieces.
Look at old photos when they were just built, entire multiple acre tracts all alike!
They're gonna loooove living
By anon
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 7:02am
They're gonna loooove living there the first time the Up Academy lets out and the rowdy pack of kids comes by. It's impossible to miss them. They're the reason for so many T cops at Andrew station every afternoon in the school year. Boston PD has had to respond to Dot St plenty for them and their behavior. Lots of noise, fighting, nonsense.
Do you work from home?
By anon
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 4:31pm
Most people won't be around - they will be at work at that hour.
People who live in suburbs and are at home experience the rowdy after school thing, too.
South Boston New Development Haiku
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 7:25am
Southies will be mad
They will clutch their pearls and say
Not in my backyard
Do you think this would have
By sam
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 1:04pm
Do you think this would have an impact on the value for current condo owners. 600 units seems like a lot
Do you think this would have
By sam
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 1:04pm
Do you think this would have an impact on the value for current condo owners. 600 units seems like a lot
Current Condo Owner Haiku
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 4:24pm
I couldn't care less
Six hundred is not enough
Must build more and more
It's not going to be
By anon
Sat, 08/13/2016 - 4:38pm
It's not going to be overbuilt just because you think there isn't enough.
Southies?
By Lmo
Fri, 08/12/2016 - 9:36pm
Southies?
Silly I know, but It fit the haiku
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Sat, 08/13/2016 - 1:01am
"Southies": Someone who lives in South Boston, but is not a yuppie. Not a homeowner either, so they are not in any sort of position to benefit from the newcomers and therefore couldn't cash out the family triple decker a lot of $ to move to the S. Shore, Flah-ruh-duh, or NH, and are really fucking bitter about it. Shanty Irish as opposed to lace curtain. Example: the two drunk, mom's-basement-dwelling-in-their-30s brothers who beat up and peed on the sleeping Mexican guy as a weird offering to Donald Trump. As far as I know, this slang word originated right here on U-Hub as I have never heard anyone use it "IRL". Also, I guess any Mass native can legitimately be called a "Southie" regardless of where the come from so long as they have never ventured away for a period longer than 72 hours (and that's stretching it), spend at least $30 at Dunks every week, spend at least $50 on scratchers/Keno/quick picks every week, buys butts in bulk from a crooked statie, has their own personal bookie, and most importantly must GET REALLY OFFENDED AND BUTTHURT when they hear the word "Southie" to refer to a person and not the Boston neighborhood.
One of the few reasons to
By anon
Sat, 08/13/2016 - 4:47pm
One of the few reasons to leave would only be to see how much better it is here than the states all the transplants come from.
Thanks for defining! I was
By Lmo
Sat, 08/13/2016 - 11:36pm
Thanks for defining! I was confused and thought you forgot an apostrophe. You should submit that to urban dictionary!
Some people apparently like
By anon
Sun, 08/14/2016 - 3:03pm
Some people apparently like to traffic in tired stereotypes.
For sure
By MattyC
Mon, 08/15/2016 - 12:35pm
Some of my neighbors are guilty of trafficking, distribution and retail sale of that stereotype, for sure.
When look for stereoptypes,
By anon
Tue, 08/16/2016 - 11:36am
When look for stereoptypes, you will find them. Other people just manage to get on with their day without making fun of working class people, unlike you.
No, they they are just
By anon
Tue, 08/16/2016 - 11:38am
No, they they are just working class. That isn't a problem for most people.
You spent way too much time
By anon
Sun, 08/14/2016 - 3:02pm
You spent way too much time thinking and typing about that. The average resident here is far better educated from public schools, even the working class, than those in most other states.
Discussion closed
By adamg
Thu, 08/18/2016 - 8:38am
Nobody is saying anything new and we have one anon (who sounds like the same anon who basically made me close an earlier discussion about water conservation) just endlessly rebutting every. single. comment. Moderation is a virtue sometimes.
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