New addition would be on the left in this architect's rendering.
The developers who replaced a ramshackle old building on Tremont Street at St. Cyprians Place with a six-story, 16-unit building are now proposing to replace a neighboring ramshackle building with a 24-unit addition.
Because the site is a short walk to the Ruggles T station and Northeastern University, Boston Real Estate Collaborative and Urban Core Development will ask the city to let them bypass the normal requirements that they provide parking spaces.
The new units would be "designed specifically for students walking to and from
campus," they write in a filing with the BPDA.
Also unusual for Boston: Proposed plans for two three-bedroom and two four-bedroom units. Four units in the building will be marketed as affordable.
Construction should take 14 to 18 months once the addition receives city approvals, the developers say.
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New York
By anon
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 4:31pm
You want everything to be "like" NY? Then pack your bags and move your ass there. I like Boston because I can own a car here.
You can own a car in New York
By adamg
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 4:57pm
Why, some people there even have driveways! Amazing, I know, but not so much when you realize there's a lot more to New York than Manhattan.
Educated populous helps ... or no populous
By BiggerThanBoston
Wed, 02/01/2017 - 11:52pm
Project in my neighborhood is providing 27% more parking spaces than required by code and it's two minutes to the T and two minutes to a major bus line. Folks here don't get that free parking creates traffic.
Which Boston neighborhood do
By anon
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 7:45am
Which Boston neighborhood do you live in that has free parking?
Roslindale
By adamg
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 8:15am
And we're not alone. But we're also not a really dense, urban area, either (at least not the part I'm in; the Washington Street corridor is pretty dense, but it also has a million bus routes).
All of them
By apkmax
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 8:57am
All neighborhoods in Boston have free on street parking for the people that live there. Resident Parking Permits don't cost a dime and there is no limit to the number of permits a household can have. Just need a valid Mass registration and proof of residency. If we really want to get serious about reducing the number of cars in the city, lets start charging for the storage of these vehicles on public property.
Why is parking free?
By anon
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:15am
Why is parking free? Somerville and Cambridge both charge a nominal fee (under 100$) for parking permit and it seems to work out just fine. They also charge for your house to have visitor permits, which IMO are vastly superior to the crappy system of visitor parking in some of the more restricted Boston neighborhoods. Even better would be a system where the first parking permit for a residence would cost x, and then the second would cost 2x, and the third 3x, etc, etc. Once you have 5-6 cars in one household you really need to reexamine why you're living in the city at all.
At the very least, the parking office should be recouping their operating costs in some kind of application fee - it's not free for the city to run an office and mail these out and pay staff to run the thing.
I grew up on a quiet street in the city
By Scauma
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:47am
And parking was never an issue, except for when it snowed. So why should we, or anyone else have to pay for a permit? Around public transit stops where people park and go to work there should be free permits for residents. That's enough.
Because as explained, it
By anon
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 11:58am
Because as explained, it costs the city money to run the permit program. It costs them money to pay cops to enforce it, to make sure out of towners aren't cheating and parking without the permits. An application fee to recoup some of these administrative costs is hardly unfair, considering you have to pay for so many other permits and licenses.
Why is parking free is a
By bkearney
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 4:19pm
Why is parking free is a great question. I wrote this last month, and noted surrounding communities that charge for residential permits, including Cambridge ($25), Somerville ($40), Brookline ($25) and Quincy ($20).
(As for visitor permits, Somerville has two different ones available - a $20 per year for 2-day, $40 per year for 3-day.)
If you want to read up on parking, Donald Shoup is the resource (and he's got the best URL): http://www.shoupdogg.com/about/
How about making better policy?
By whyaduck
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:50am
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/20/bosto...
When I lived in Roxbury (15
By DTP
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:08am
When I lived in Roxbury (15 min walk from the orange line), my street had free, completely unrestricted parking (not even street sweeping!).
Not any more, baby!
By Jonas X. Prang
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:28am
Those Roxbury halcyon days of yore are gone, gone, gone.
Now the street sweeping is regular like a clock, the resident parking signs are spreading like mold, and the Boston Transportation Department enforcement vehicles come prowling every day like muggers.
Days of yore?
By DTP
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 1:48pm
Days of yore?
I moved last summer.
It's not "free" if the people
By an anon
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:58am
It's not "free" if the people in the building are paying for it because they want it, and plenty of people do.
Cambridge
By anon
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:06am
Slightly off topic but it is striking how, as you drive along the Charles at night, you can so clearly see how there's nothing tall in Cambridge other than the stuff around Kendall and a few outlying tall buildings. It would be great if Central Square for example could be build up like the Fenway is so we can get more people living nearer to where they want to work and live.
Have you never been to
By DTP
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:09am
Have you never been to Central Square?
https://goo.gl/maps/rKAApQHq7j12
It's pretty similar to the Fenway in density.
Not really
By Waquiot
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 2:15pm
Unless the view has changed since google posted what you linked to.
I see a few high rise apartment buildings and a few office buildings. The rest is 4 stories tall, max.
Take a walk down Boylston Street, then up Brookline Ave to Kenmore Square. I'm sure that's what he is talking about.
Erm, I will admit Fenway has
By DTP
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 3:16pm
Erm, I will admit Fenway has seen a lot of new mid-rise construction lately, but the whole stretch of Mass Ave from Central to Harvard is interspersed with mid-rises, most of them taller than 4 stories. Even south of Central along Mass Ave most buildings are 5- and 6-story (with plenty of exceptions).
VERY similar to most of Fenway. The same style of 5-6 story, ~100 year old apartment buildings. Fenway has what, 5 new high rises along Boylston St? And Brookline Ave is mostly 3-story industrial buildings.
You know what there is more of along Boylston and Brookline? Surface parking. There are ZERO lots that front Mass Ave from Central to Harvard that consist of surface parking.
I'm not denying that Boylston St has undergone a massive change in recent years - just pointing out that Central Square already has a similar level of density. Admittedly there are more detached homes in the surrounding neighborhood, but there are also more mid-rise buildings.
I think the point still
By eherot
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 6:20pm
I think the point still stands. None of the buildings over 4 stories in Central Square are market-rate residential buildings, and it would absolutely be a boon for business in that area if the neighborhood would ever approve such a thing.
This is definitely great news
By anon
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 2:06pm
This is definitely great news for students and cyclists! Paying less if you don't need a parking space is awesome for able-bodied people.
The design though is HIDEOUS and not at all fitting with the residential character of the nearby buildings... looks like a small factory.
Eh, I think it's ok. Could be
By eherot
Thu, 02/02/2017 - 6:22pm
Eh, I think it's ok. Could be more creative and colorful but it's not cheap-looking. It's not like the surrounding brownstones are what I would call architecturally innovative, unique, or even particularly interesting (even when they were built). People just like them because they're old. Architectural styles need to be allowed to evolve.
Deliberately non-contextual?
By Ron Newman
Fri, 02/03/2017 - 12:20am
If the exterior walls were redbrick instead of white, it wouldn't stand out at all in the neighborhood
Too Late
By ElizaLeila
Fri, 02/03/2017 - 10:43am
It's matching a building that is already there.:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.33591,-71.0866297,3a,75y,28.59h,92.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVAkHdCdquj2sUQKatB-pg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
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