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More apartments proposed next to where apartments are proposed on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain
By adamg on Mon, 03/13/2017 - 10:06am
Architect's rendering.
City Realty of Brookline is proposing two apartment buildings, one on Washington Street near Green, the other around the corner on Green Street near Union Avenue.
The proposed 33-unit, five-story apartment building on Washington Street would sit next to the lot where local landlord Mordechai Levin has won BPDA approval for a 45-unit apartment building at the corner of Washington and Green, and would replace the building that now houses El Embajdor restaurant and a repair garage. It would have retail space on the ground floor.
The second building, on Green, and connected to the other building in a lot wrapping around Levin's lot, would also be five stories but would have 25 apartments - and retail on the first floor. It would replace a vacant house City Realty bought last year and let local artists turn into a pop-up outdoor gallery. Unusually, it would include 15 three-bedroom units.
Both buildings, located a couple of blocks from the Green Street Orange Line station, would share a total of 33 parking spaces in a parking lot.
3371-3375 Washington St. project notification form (19.6M PDF).
Via Jamaica Plain News.
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How is this impacted by the recent meeting?
I believe the figure bandied about was 40% affordable units to preserve neighborhood or something.
Does that apply to this?
Preserve? JP?
That Ship made from locally sourced environmentally sustainable bamboo sailed LONG ago.
Forget about the neighborhood
I just want to know if they'll be preserving El Ambajador, which is the only restaurant in that murderer's row on Washington between Green and Rockvale to have survived the last five years. (It's delicious, and I don't know if they're getting ousted by the new development or if they'll move into the new space)
Here here!
El Embajador is a neighborhood jewel.
Preserve Washington street?
Preserve Washington street? Why?
If you're seriously asking...
the issue is displacement. There are lots of people who live between Eggleston and Forrest Hills who aren't 'yuppies' or however you'd care to describe white collar / college grad type workers. As is the case in many neighborhoods with lots of renters, these people are concerned that they are being priced out of places that they've lived in for decades in some cases.
I don't know that the proposed fix will work of course but that's the issue.
The Time is Now
...to invest in 3D apartment building printers!
Please note
Please note that this is about as interesting a building as "neighborhood groups" will tolerate. They send the developers back over and over, shaving away details until they get an inoffensive box. Anything else "doesn't fit with the neighborhood's character." At least this one has different materials and colors, and big windows.
BS
Cheap building
As opposed to all of the
luxe, lovingly hand-crafted three-deckers, crumbling industrial brick behemoths and flimsy workers' housing that surrounds it? Come on and just admit that nothing would actually make you happy.
Three deckers on Paul Gore St
Three deckers are beautiful inside. If they had been preserved right they would be beautiful outside. Go to Paul Gore Street and see a few that have been properly maintained.
These apartments are cheaply assembled and clad literally in plastic. What do you think a few years of weather and regular use will do to them.