The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved the conversion of offices in buildings on Washington, Water and Devonshire streets downtown into 95 apartments, under a city tax-abatement program aimed at encouraging that. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to convert a long unoccupied Victorian and its carriage house at 43 Hutchings St. in Roxbury into a residential Web-programming school for 14 young women - over the objections of neighbors, who say they want to keep their street a place of single-family homes rather than a place where do-gooders can dump yet more transitional housing. Read more.
Side rendering by Context.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to renovate a single-family home at 9 Fuller St. in Dorchester and add a rear extension with four floors - to create a total of 14 condos. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal for a burger trailer inside a tire shop at 538 Blue Hill Ave. at Seaver Street over concerns from neighbors about late-night gatherings and crime and concerns from board members about security before its proposed 1 a.m. closing. Read more.
Rendering of proposed building by Embarc.
Monty Gold, a Brookline landlord who has gone to court to try to stop apartment buildings from going up near buildings he owns in Jamaica Plain and Salem, yesterday sued to try to block a six-story apartment building from going up at St. Alphonsus Street and Tremont Street in Mission Hill, in between two buildings he owns. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a land owner's plans to replace a Richdale and a parking lot on its land at 1420 Dorchester Ave., near Adams Street in Dorchester, with a five-story, 46-unit apartment building. Read more.
Rendering by Utile, showing institute buildings in rear, behind garden entranceway.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city-owned vacant lots at 30 Westville St. in Dorchester. Read more.
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. Read more.
Rendering by Icon Architecture
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a four-story, 21-unit live/work condo building at 2 Hillsboro St. in Dorchester - with 18 of the units aimed at artists. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to build 26 affordable condos on three city-owned vacant lots on Geneva Avenue, between Olney and Everton streets, and a fourth vacant lot on Eunice Street in Dorchester. Read more.
Rendering by Anthony Pisani, showing new wings coming off existing house in center.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to expand a 3-family house at 16 High St. in Dorchester to nine units, following a hearing that turned into a mini-debate about the future of Meetinghouse Hill and Dorchester's other residential hills - Jones, Popes and Savin. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-story, 76-unit condo building on Hichborn Street at North Beacon Street in Brighton, the latest residential building proposed by New Balance to go along with its redevelopment of the Guest Street corridor. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved plans to replace the old Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street with a four-story restaurant with mini-golf. Read more.
Rendering by Timothy Burke. The apartments approved this week are on the left.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved a plan by the owner of the building housing JP Kitchen, 3510 Washington St., across from English High School, to add two duplex apartments on top. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Locale, 352 Hanover St. in the North End, to double its size by moving into the space now used by a barber shop next door. Read more.
Rendering by David Choi showing the rear and front views (the right one shows the tree from the front, not the building on fire).
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-unit residential building at 72 Hyde Park Ave. in Forest Hills that preserves a large, 150-year-old oak tree on the site. Read more.
Rendering by O'Sullivan Architects.
Location, location, location: A couple hours after rejecting plans by one property owner to turn a two-family home on East 5th Street in South Boston into a five-unit condo building after nearby residents and the district city councilor strongly objected, the Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by another property owner for a similar conversion on Bigelow Street in Brighton that was supported by the district city councilor. Read more.
Rendering by O'Sullivan Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal by Elias Akiki to build a four-story, nine-unit residential building at 1015 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, currently a parking lot and home of one of the larger Madonna shrines on the street. Read more.
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