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Relentless march of residential development could claim another auto-body shop on Border Street in East Boston
By adamg on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 3:15pm
Architect's rendering.
A downtown developer with a fascination for East Boston has proposed replacing an auto-body shop at 277 Border St. with a five-story building with 18 residential units.
MG2's proposal, filed this week with the BPDA, comes three weeks after another developer proposed tearing down another garage at 425 Border St. with a 16-unit building - and two years after another developer won approval to replace a garage at 301 Border St. with a six-story, 64-condo building.
MG2 is proposing ground-floor commercial space, a roof deck and eight parking spaces for its building. Two of the units would be rented or sold as affordable.
Because of its location at the bottom of a steeply sloped site, the first floor is below grade at the rear of the building, helping to reduce the scale of the building relative to the uphill abutters on Meridian Street. The building is broken down into multiple masses, with different cladding materials and recesses for decks, in order to reduce the visual scale of the building. Every unit in the building has an exterior deck, which helps to animate the building and create connections between neighbors. The parking garage is tucked into the rear of the building, so that the commercial space and residential lobby can create an active presence on the sidewalk.
277 Border St. small-project review application (10.2M PDF).
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WTF
This looks horrible. Not a touch of Boston to it. Boo
This horrible style of
This horrible style of apartment/condo building is everywhere. People will be looking at these buildings in 30 years the way we look at the awful cement blocks that were so cool and modern in the 60s.
The Stench of Low Tide Twice a Day
is the touch of Boston. That, and the $800,000 sale price on the units.
Agreed
The auto body shop was the pinnacle of Boston architecture, right up there with the State House and Old North Church
Build Baby Build
Not like Edna's Auto Body is a work of art...
18 new homes plus a small retail bay (510 sq. ft.) along a high frequency bus corridor sounds great!
The Developer doesn't care
The Developer doesn't care what it looks like because they themselves are not living there. Architecture with actual beauty and character is too expensive to build and therefor that's why it looks like a particle board box. How long will it take to clear the environmental reports once the results come in showing an accumulation of automotive hazardous substances in the ground? And one more question.....what are the future plans of the owner and its employees of the autobody shop?
People said the same thing
People said the same thing about the triple deckers at the time and now they're Boston originals. Chill.
This is
the kind of junk that MG2 has been cramming in throughout all of East Boston. Boring, bland, big and boxy.
Wait a second...
Haven't you posted that same architect's rendering 20 times in the past year?
Ah
Ah, I see the architect has never set foot in Boston, much less talked to anyone who lives here with an exterior deck.
Auto body shops and factories
Auto body shops and factories have been polluting the air in residential parts of Eastie for decades. Thank god for a developer like Mg2 who did not hesitate to buy this building. This is a step foreward from Cleaning the air in East Boston to having gleaming new buildings replacing old factory mills all around Eastie all thanks to Mg2 and others. If the Airport was for sale mg2 would be the first to buy. Lol
Where am I going to get my
Where am I going to get my car fixed now?