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Offices, convenience store to make way for new apartments in Cleveland Circle
By adamg on Tue, 06/04/2024 - 1:45pm
Rendering by Embarc showing the blank wall in case the pizza place gets replaced by something taller.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to replace the three-story office building next to the Circle pizza place and bar with a six-story, 30-unit apartment building.
On the side of 358 Chestnut Hill Ave. that is across a driveway from an older building that continues around the corner onto Beacon Street, apartments would have angled bay windows so that renters can look out over the Chestnut Hill Reservoir rather than the walls of that building.
Five of the units would be rented as affordable.
Plans call for 19 parking spaces for the building, which is located a short walk from three Green Line branches.
The Brighton Allston Improvement Association supported the proposed replacement of offices with apartments. Nobody spoke against the proposal.
City Realty purchased the building for $3.45 million in 2021, according to Registry of Deeds records.
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The irony
“Plans call for 19 parking spaces for the building, which is located a short walk from three Green Line branches.”
Fewer parking spaces and a little taller, and looks like a great addition in my book.
Green Line
Doesn't go to Watertown, Newton Lower Falls, Dedham, etc.
Not everyone works next to the T. I know it is a crazy thing, isn't it?
I love that City Realty, which gets slammed a lot here, is creating 30 units of housing and they get scorn.
You're confused
Suggesting improvements isn't the same thing as scorn.
There's lots of housing not near the T -- and folks don't propose that the housing there not be associated with autos.
This site is on the B, C, D Green Line, and the 86 bus (among others). It's extremely transit rich. The idea is that places close to good transit should have zero parking, places at mediocre transit some parking, and places at bad/no transit more parking. Building out the metro area that way would help "sort" folks who ride the T into places nearest the T, and help mitigate traffic.
Want to live in Cleveland Circle and go to Dedham? Hop in a ZipCar for a few hours. Easy enough. No need for more cars living in the auto-congested Cleveland Circle area.
Nonsensical argument
If you’re working in Watertown, this building isn’t for you. It should be for people who intend to use the transit it’s built near, since that’s far harder to come by.
Yeah so
not everyone should live here. But a bunch of apartments for people who rely primarily on public transit is exactly right for this location.
Since the building is in
Since the building is in Boston and not Brookline, residents should be able to park on the street if they have a car but don't have an off-street spot.
Eh, honestly, that's not a
Eh, honestly, that's not a lot of spaces for a building with that many units. Seems like a reasonable compromise for a location where some but not all households need a car. Street parking around there is not fun, as we learned when we had to get a car for my partner's reverse commute to a suburban public school. (He didn't even know how to drive when he took the job, and if there were any feasible way to have used transit, he would have done it in a heartbeat!)
Better secure that blank wall
Better secure that blank wall before the taggers wreck havoc on the NIMBYS.
City Realty purchased a former next door …
..,, neighbor’s longtime family home some years ago.
What I saw close up of this nefarious organization was probably some of the scummiest slumlording I’ve seen.Then they grew and grew and now they are everywhere.
Boston beware.
Can you give some specifics?
What exactly did they do?