Developer proposes razing Allston office building for 240-unit apartment building

By adamg on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 10:43am

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A Florida developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace an empty three-story office building at 250 Everett St. in Allston with a six-story, 240-unit apartment building that would be built far enough away from two of its lot lines to allow for future road construction.

The proposal by Mill Creek Residential - which to date has focused on apartment complexes in the suburbs - is the latest by developers transforming the Western Avenue corridor on the Allston/Brighton line.

Mill Creek's proposal for the 1.8-acre site next to the Star Market parking lot calls for 41 of the apartments in the new building - 17% of the total - to be rented as affordable. The apartments would range from studios to three-bedroom units.

An underground garage would have space for 120 cars. The building would have storage space for 240 bicycles, additional outdoor racks for pedaling visitors and a Bluebike bike-rental station.

Mill Creek estimates construction will take 28 months.

250 Everett St. filings and meeting schedule.

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By blues_lead on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 11:02am.

More cars?

By Allstone on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 11:29am.

Spare us! Allston is drowning in exhaust. Build a bus station instead of a garage. The developers seem to only have experience in suburbs with considerably lower density.

0.5 spots per unit is

By Tyler on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 2:12pm.

0.5 spots per unit is reasonable considering the location.

Is this a joke?

By Kaz on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 3:09pm.

That's ONE car for every TWO apartments...that's incredibly low.

It's also dense

By Ari O on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 4:42pm.

133 units per acre, at 2.5 people per unit that's 212,000 people per square mile. Not that the entire area is going to be that dense. But seems pretty reasonable.

As for cars, yeah, there are a lot of cars in Allston, mostly on the Turnpike. Not exactly Allston's fault. But if there's not more housing here and it gets built out in Westborough or wherever, those people are going to be on the Pike, still in Allston. So, maybe have housing nearby instead.

2 minute walk to the 70 and 86 buses, 7 minutes to Boston Landing which can get you downtown in 10 minutes (and if the T utilized its Commuter Rail lines, could probably run every 10 minutes). The 28 acre swath between Everett and Telford could have several thousand transit-oriented housing units at these densities if it weren't mostly a parking lot. This is a start.

Then don't move there

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 7:10pm.

Not every piece of real estate needs to be attractive to every single person or meet every single whim that you or I or others have.

I do wonder if one bike spot per unit is enough, but that's easy enough to adjust to meet demand.

Developer proposes razing Allston office building for 240-unit apartment building

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More cars?

0.5 spots per unit is

Is this a joke?

It's also dense

Then don't move there

Huge building on Everett St.

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