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Another condo building approved on West Broadway

150 West Broadway proposal in South Boston

Architect's rendering.

The BRA yesterday approved a plan to replace an auto-repair shop and car lot at 150 W. Broadway, at B, with a new building with 24 condos, 3 of them considered "affordable."

The $8-million proposal by developers Stephen Pitrowski and Joe Hassell also includes 33 underground parking spaces and space for four small shops.

Most of the units will have two bedrooms; two will have just one bedroom.

Developers hope to begin work on the project this spring.

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It's a shame, Southie's done for.

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Who will throw rocks at school buses now that the world's most beautiful auto repair place is going away?

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I expect better from you, John.

You know damn well there can be a very strong emotional attachment to someplace lived in for many years. When that place begins to drastically change, the resident(s) have every right to express dismay. Just because it may not be your favorite place, or perhaps you favor the change, that doesn't invalidate those feelings. And tossing out stereotyped insults based on things that happened decades ago is puerile.

(Personally, I mourn this development because it is also on the site of my former favorite roast beef joint, which was right next door to the auto place.)

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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As you undoubtedly know, the roast beef joint will be apartments, too.

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I love to make fun of South Boston because I lived there 20 years ago. Hell my grandmother was the guest of honor in the Evacuation Day, wink, wink, Parade in 1981.

I'm making fun of the notion of the South Boston ethos that it is a noble city on a hill filled with righteous people standing up for the good old days when everything was wonderful. I hear the words Southie Pride and I immediatley think of John Ciccone opinioning in the Tribune that only South Boston people are God's people and NO LIBERALS stickers are a beautiful expression of how everyone is out to get Southie.

This is a neighborhood which has seen new housing being built for nearly 30 years. Auto body shops, vacant lots, and under utilized sites are being made into places for people to live, which is good. The change in South Boston has been ongoing for a generation. It just didn't start in 2011.

There are people who want to make South Boston into a Sturbridge Village with the locals driving 74 Diplomats and wearing reverse Barracuda Jackets and shell toes and no roof decks (High comedy Jimmy Kelly!) Those days are gone and everyone is better off for it.

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Sorry - I get a hair across my ass when folks talk about Southie.as though it's entirely populated by neanderthals. I have a lot of friends there, folks who have been my teammates and my co-workers and who have given me a hand sometimes when needed desperately, so I like the place a lot and sometimes get highly defensive.

Yeah, there are some aspects of "Old Southie" that aren't exactly my cup of tea, either. As for the construction, yes, it's been going on for longer than a couple of years, but the tipping point comes at different times for different people; you know that. A lot of folks are reaching that now (or got there in the past couple of years) and it truly is a sad and anxious time for them. I just hate to see them lumped in with the bigots and jerks when many of them who feel this displacement weren't even born at the time of past troubles.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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Sensible discourse between two people who clearly have some firsthand historical knowledge, and who have have not resorted to name-calling after the first volley.

Hell, I think that I might have even seen something like an apology or at least and acknowledgement of harshness in there somewhere. I might have even seen it from each party!

In any case, I thought that the views espoused were very interesting takes, more or less jive with a lot of what I think about the situation in South Boston, and overall convey the angst that arises when a lot of change comes quickly to a neighborhood where there is a lot of history and which hasn't seen that rate of change in a very, very long time.

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Someone got beat up in the old nieghborhood.

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And both my beige and blue ones are in a closet at my Mom's. I lost my Scally years ago.

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And that makes you an expert on 2014 South Boston. You losers keep perpetuating the wrong image of Southie.

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The problem is people who grew up there are being priced out.

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Rocks at school buses? I thought this was the "New South Boston?" It seems you're a bit outdated. How can we ever move forward if we're constantly stuck in the past? Have a great weekend!

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Why all the hate here all the time?

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Looks like a suburban medical office building. No character. Bland. Fire the architect.

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It will be billed as a luxury building because it has a stainless and granite kitchen and will have multiple bidders on day one.

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of residential architecture are long over.

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Is there only one architect left in the US? I swear I've seen beaucoup copies of the same old, forgettable crap, again and again and again - in Southie, Somerville, Eastie, Chelsea, Alewife, Watertown, Brighton, etc... Slap some brick paneling on there to pay tribute to Boston, recessed alucobond top floor, and some random and edgy(tm) colored paneling on a asymmetrical facade so they we all remember we're looking at a building. I'd rather just have a row of triple-deckers to be honest if this is what we're getting.

Maybe there wouldn't be such passionate reactions against new buildings if those new buildings contributed to the neighborhood architecturally beyond just adding bodies. There better be some retail on the street level, else I'd suggest somebody drive a truck into it and restore it to an auto-repair shop.

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Looks like all the other condos in Southie. I have seen better designs on drawings done in my freshman year of drafting at Boston Trade. The Commonwealth is obviously giving Professional Architect stamps to anyone these days.

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Blame the developer not the architect. They can only design what the developer will pay to have built.

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True to an extent. However, this smacks of lazy regurgitated design to me. We've all seen this same suck-the-life out the neighborhood tired building go up time and time again in the greater Boston area.

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"time and time again"....love to hear some examples.

the rendering of the building ain't great and architects should get off the machines once in a while...but was the previous use infusing life into the neighborhood?...is this a net gain, or do we all sometimes prefer a little blight to significant change? e.g. "keep allston sh*tty" and all that"..altho I expect the allston graffiti reference has a boatload of meanings.

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Would you rather have old run down triple-deckers and crumbling brick garages instead? Most folks in Dot (and many other places, for that matter) would kill to have a bunch of those "ugly" buildings put up along their main streets.

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Dot doesn't want them!

Seriously, why would you suppose that we would? Our triple deckers have way more character than this.

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No one in Dot wants these buildings. What are you talking about? Most of the neighborhood associations in Dot are voting against developments like this.

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Gentrification is eeeeeevil? You'd rather see a bunch of run-down, mostly section 8 triple deckers, empty overgrown lots and old industrial buildings with giant "for lease" signs? Whatever floats your boat, bud.

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That's what you think Dorchester is? (Run down, mostly section 8 triple deckers, empty overgrown lots and old industrial buildings)
There are a lot of industrial buildings, I'll give you that.
How do you know which houses are section 8?
Take a ride through Dorchester, then get back to me, bud.

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That's exactly what dot ave looks like between savin hill and fields corner, and for the most part fields corner all the way down to ashmont. As for section 8 - drive down dot ave on a weekday and take a look, just make sure you leave your rosey PC glasses at home.

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I drive down Dot Ave every day, thanks. There are complete dumps with section 8 apts, and beautiful houses with section 8 apartments. Again, how do you identify which houses are section 8, or have section 8 apts?
From Savin Hill, to Field's Corner to, Ashmont; there are a bunch of restaurants, bars and businesses, along the way. Not too many residential buildings until you get past Town Field.
What difference does it make if I drive down Dot Ave on a weekday?

In your first post you mentioned Dorchester; not Dot Ave (from Savin Hill to Ashmont), Dorchester is a lot bigger than that. Venture off Dot Ave and be sure to leave your clouded, judgy, jerkface, glasses at home.
Rosey, PC glasses, that. is. funny.

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Boston keeps adding housing, and crowding more people closer and closer. Are fire, police, and EMT services being adjusted for the increases is my concern.

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Density would make all of those services more efficient: the cost-per cap of providing fire/police is lower in dense neighborhoods.

In turn the Fire Dept. has to sign off on all new builds and Massachusetts has very strict fire codes for the actual building itself, they wouldn't sign off if they couldn't provide cover - so, in many ways, the closer people live the more cost efficient providing a top-notch fire department is.

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I have nothing nice to say,...so im saying nothing at all..:(

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just like new OC pads.

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...there's no traffic

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Or space savers.

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