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90 apartments approved just a short walk from the South Bay Mall
By adamg on Tue, 08/27/2024 - 12:52pm
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a local developer's plans for a 90-unit apartment building at 115-121 Boston St. in Dorchester.
The units in Adam Burns's new complex - with one wing five stories, the other six - will be smaller in size than normally allowed, under the city's "compact living" pilot - of between 450 square feet for studios up to 950 square feet for three-bedroom units. Some 15 units will be rented as affordable.
The proposal calls for a garage with 57 parking spaces - 41 for residents, the rest for patrons of the gym and cafe/juice bar planned for the ground floor. Burns's attorney, George Morancy, said the site is a short walk from the Andrew Square Red Line stop and the Newmarket Square stop on the Fairmount Line.
In addition to new housing, the complex will have an unusual public benefit: An easement that will let the owner of the Scrubadub car wash next door on West Howell Street add a queuing area for cars once the car wash is upgraded. Morancy said this queuing area will end neighborhood complaints about people with dirty cars clogging up West Howell and Boston streets waiting for a wash.
The project needed zoning-board approval because it would be larger and taller than allowed under its lot's zoning. Also, the cafe and juice bar would offer takeout, which requires a once-over by the board.
The BPDA approved the project in April.
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Comments
450 sq ft is large
for a studio. When I lived in Montreal, I estimated my studio apartment size at 150 ish sq ft. Comfortable enough for student living. 450 sounds luxurious.
And if things get dicey...
...an even shorter run from South Bay.
You think that's cute
There is another term for what you are trying to say here.
Not a secret: South Bay Mall, dangerous area, lots of crime.
But of course you're implying something more nefarious. There's another term for that too.
There is more crime there
There is more crime there than in most of the city, it's true, but most of it is retail theft, young people behaving boorishly at or near the movie theater, and interpersonal crime between specific individuals that doesn't really put the general public at elevated risk; it's not random muggings or anything like that. I'm at South Bay frequently and don't feel unsafe.