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Harold Brown filling in empty spaces
By adamg on Thu, 07/16/2015 - 8:33am
Architect's rendering of proposed new building at Douglass Park in Roxbury
Harold Brown's Hamilton Co. recently filed plans with the BRA to add to Roxbury's Douglass Park complex with a five-story, 44-unit apartment building on what is now a tree-lined green between existing buildings on Camden Street.
Meanwhile, the company recently began ripping up a parking lot at 40 Malvern St. in Allston to build a six-story, 48-unit apartment building.
Brown, long one of the area's largest landlords, says he's been priced out of the market for existing buildings, so he's concentrating on parking and vacant lots he already owns for development of new units.
In its BRA filings, Hamilton says the Douglass Park building will replace a knoll off Camden Street created out of construction fill from the earlier Douglass Park buildings.
The design of the building picks up on the rhythm and scale of nearby South End buildings on Tremont Street and Columbus Avenue, while the materiality and placement of the brick exercises a contemporary interpretation of the mansard roof condition. The "head" of the building - at the intersection of Tremont and Camden Streets - exaggerates the treatment of material at the repeating bays and geometrically relates to its neighbor, creating a strong focal point along Camden Street. ...
The Project will result in additional housing that can serve the diverse community of Lower Roxbury. The new development will improve the fabric of this area, will contribute to the economic base of the area, will result in increased pedestrian traffic in the area, and indirectly will help the business of the area. There will be sufficient parking provided for the Project. The Proponent currently has a number of excess parking spaces in the existing parking garage of the Douglas Park project that it can make available for occupants of the Project.
Douglass Park project notification form (1.3M PDF).
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Bullshit.
Given that Harold Brown would roll his dead mother over if there was a nickel under her, what do you think that quote means?
Don't ask me, kids, I'm just an asshole! Ask noted and respected journalist Shirley Leung:
Well then, Shirley, considering you've probably never stepped in a Brown property, what else can Brown do for
you today?
Dafodils!!!
So Harold Brown is ok, cuz he plants daffodils. And his reputation as a slumlord is gone cuz Shirley says so.
Shirley you jest.
The buildings he has put up
The buildings he has put up in the past few years have not been built on the cheap.
brian mclaughlin former boston city councillor and harold brown
mclaughlin came to speak to my 9th grade political history class and at the end he took questions. I asked him why he wasn't in jail for taking envelopes full of cash from mr. harold brown? he turned as white as a ghost and the Q&A session ended early. my next question was going to be about his brothers involvement in gun running for the irish republican army but he left quickly.
Harold Brown
Arson, bribery, lying to grand jury, discrimination in renting, and apartments filled with rats and cockroaches? That Harold Brown?
Anwar Faisal don't see nuthin
Anwar Faisal don't see nuthin' wrong with that.
Yes.
From rat and cockroach bites to daffodils. What a true humanitarian.
My Harold Brown apartment had..
only mice and cockroaches. No rats that I knew of except ..... never mind, that's too easy.
Mine had bedbugs. Twice.
Mine had bedbugs. Twice.
All that flowery language and
All that flowery language and yet the rendering still looks like every other new residential, commercial, and mixed use building that's been built within the last 5-10 years.