SMCYB
May 22, 2021, 7:38pm
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There are a lot of threads for lowrise buildings in Boston, but they’re not getting a lot of traction. So maybe if they’re all in one thread people can see them all at once.
Here are some of them. Please feel free to add more and post photos.
Cruz Development filed plans with the Boston Planning and Development Agency to build two mixed-use buildings in Roxbury at 280-290 Warren Street, between Clifford and Waverly Streets. The 54,670 square foot site will have 11,334 square feet of ground floor office and commercial space and 95 apartments.
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According to the filing, phase one will involve building a 97,709 square foot, 51-apartment mixed-income building on 9,684 square feet of land owned by the Department of Neighborhood D…
Construction of 210 apartments in downtown Malden is coming along nicely. The apartments, in two buildings at 100-150 Exchange Street, are being built by Combined Properties, Inc and when completed will be six stories and 70 feet tall.
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Built on a 97,688 square foot lot, the two buildings will have a combined gross area of 273,171 square feet, including 1,951 square feet of retail space on the ground floor of one of the buildings. The residences are planned to be a mix of studios, one-…
Cabot, Cabot and Forbes yesterday filed an expanded project notification form with the Boston Redevelopment Authority for its proposed graduate student housing complex on the closed St Gabriel’s Monastery. In the letter of intent filed back in May, Cabot, Cabot and Forbes wanted to build 680 apartments and 400 parking spaces on the 11.1 acre site at 159 Washington Street in Brighton. The proposal in the EPNF is similar, with 679 apartments and 395 parking spaces.
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While initially targe…
A four story, mixed-use building with no on-site parking is planned for 206 West Broadway in South Boston, according to filings made with the Boston Redevelopment Authority yesterday. The developers, the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation and Catholic charity Caritas Communities, want to combine two City-owned parcels and build 16 apartments.
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The residences will be a mixture of one-bedroom units and studios and all of them will be affordable. Two will be for people maki…
A total of 114 residential apartments and street-level retail in a three-building complex fronting Brighton Avenue and Gardner Street in Allston has been proposed by the Hamilton Company in a letter of intent filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority Friday. They’re calling it Packard’s Crossing, after the nearby Packard’s Corner intersection of Brighton and Commonwealth Avenues.
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A view of the Packard’s Crossing project. From Hacin and Associates.
The parcels are located at 45-55 …
An apartment building with 20 residences and 20 parking spaces has been proposed for a 10,437 square foot site at 400 Belgrade Avenue in West Roxbury. Each of the apartments will have two bedrooms and three of them will be set aside as affordable. The site was once home to a gas station, but it’s been closed for several decades, according to project filings with the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
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Located at the intersection of Belgrade Avenue with Beech Street, the parcel is close to …
East Boston’s Border Street is fairly typical of Boston’s commercial streets: two lanes, with parking on either side and lined by one story commercial and industrial buildings and triple-decker houses. On one of the lots occupied by commercial and industrial buildings, at 301-323 Border St, developers Steve Whalen and Fred Starikov of City Realty Management Corporation have proposed a six-story, 64 apartment building with 1,200 square feet of ground floor commercial space, according to a letter …
City Point Liverpool, a company developing a property at 151 Liverpool Street in East Boston, filed a notification of project change with the Boston Redevelopment Authority the other day. According to the document, the project will now be a 55-foot high, five story, 36 unit building with underground parking. The developer is also considering making them condos instead of apartments.
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In the original proposal, the existing two story indistrial building would have been retained and a thre…
A developer, Chestnut Hill Investments, has proposed a 45-unit, mixed-use apartment building at 1180 Boylston Street in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Brookline. They applied for a comprehensive permit under Chapter 40B. According to the application filed with Brookline’s Zoning Board of Appeals, 36 of the residences will be market-rate, nine will be affordable and all of them will be age-restricted. They will be a mix one- and two-bedroom apartments.
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The building will be on five f…
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SMCYB
February 17, 2025, 3:46pm
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Yikes! Better to find out about their shoddy construction now than later when people would be in the building.