Abandoned West Roxbury gas station to be replaced by condos

The Zoning Board of Appeals yesterday approved tearing down the long abandoned gas station on Belgrade Avenue off West Roxbury Parkway to make way for an 18-unit condo building with 33 parking spaces.

To cram in the extra parking requested by nearby residents, the building will use car "stackers" in a basement garage.

Attorney John Pulgini added that lot owner John Douros - who worked at the gas station as a teen - is working with the city to do something about the intersection of Belgrade and Beech Street, where Pulgini acknowledged that drivers routinely ignore the stop sign and pedestrians get to consider themselves lucky if they can get across the street in one piece. Options include extending the sidewalks a bit to try to force drivers to stop and painting actual crosswalks.