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Group proposes East Boston apartment building that would include artists studios

Aileron architect's rendering.

Architect's rendering.

The Neighborhood of Affordable Housing has filed plans with the BPDA for a 33-unit apartment building - half reserved for artists who would have access to private studios - and a 7-unit condo building on Condor Street between Brooks and Putnam streets in East Boston.

In addition to the apartments and private studios, the larger, five-story building would also include a "work bar/gallery" and three public studios, along with 35 parking spaces.

In the apartment building, only nine of the units would be rented at market rates; the rest would be rented at "various levels of affordability." In the condo building, four units would be sold at market rates; the other three at affordable rates. The building would also have a roof deck, a community garden and a sculpture garden.

NOAH hopes to begin construction this spring of its Aileron buildings - named because "it fits the pattern of flight" of the bird streets of Eagle Hill - with units ready for occupancy a year later.

Aileron proposal

Aileron small-project review application (21M PDF).

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Great to see this coming together.

Snark:

They don't need artists, they need a new architect! lol

I'm not one to slam a fellow architect, but color me unimpressed.

I'm sure this little development in East Boston will spring for some original Calder sculptures to leave outside.

They should allow all the artists who were pushed out of their housing at Brookside in JP be given first offer.

This is in East Boston, not JP

Yeah but wow the traffic, i mean, the historical character, i mean, the parking, i mean.....

Current day architects, sadly, are ruining the unique characters of neighborhoods one ugly luxury building at a time. They should be forced to live in their own plastic soulless designs.

So it should feature a paved, but never maintained vacant lot and some rundown cinderblock garages ... one of them burnt out for artistic effect?

Sorry, but Eastie does have its own distinct charm despite your ignorance.

Check out street view and try again.

"Current day architects, sadly, are ruining the unique characters of neighborhoods one ugly [triple decker] building at a time. They should be forced to live in their own [wooden] soulless designs." - anon in 1918

Boo for parking

But that was built out from a converted munitions factory. Why make an arts complex look like a munitions factory from scratch?