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Cleveland Circle project figures out how to keep out college students: Make it a senior complex
By adamg on Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:31am
Boston Development, which won BRA approval in June to replace the old Cleveland Circle Cinema and the Applebee's with a hotel and an apartment complex, is bringing on a new development partner and plans to limit residents to the silver-haired set.
In a press release, Boston Development and new partner National Development say:
The 162-key hotel and 92-unit residential project with retail along Chestnut Hill Ave will have some design modifications, including an overall decrease in building area. The developers plan the residential building as an age-restricted adult community much like National Development’s award-winning Waterstone at Wellesley independent living community in Wellesley Lower Falls, in part to address neighborhood comments.
Those comments, of course, came in the form of fears that spoiled college kids would have the 'rents subsidize their carefree booze and drug binges with their loud music and wanton ways and that that would detract from the charms of the rest of Cleveland Circle, especially the part that abuts leafy Brookline.
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Leafy, eh?
Couldn't resist the "Leafy" modifier, eh, Adam? We paramecia prefer "Tony" instead, thanks.
Ironically, IIRC, none of the residential portion is in Brookline, so it will not benefit from this holy grail of municipal finance: wealthy tax-paying seniors with no children to burden the public schools.
I understand why some people like these age-restricted developments, but from a societal standpoint, I see it as just another thing that keeps people of different age groups separated. I don't see this as a whole lot different than keeping people separated based on other criteria.
On the bright side, however, maybe some of the older folks in the neighborhood that are sitting in single family homes which they are apparently no longer able or willing to maintain (it's quite sad, really) will consider taking their ENORMOUS profits, moving here, and allowing me the opportunity to plunge myself further into debt. We'll see.
I think you mean 'tony'. The
I think you mean 'tony'. The North End is 'Tony'.
Actually
Perhaps you mean "toney"?
As in Tony-award winning performer Tony Tony moved to a toney neighborhood.
nice try but that's a depreciated alternative spelling
The original Americanism is 'tony'. The alt 'toney' is newer and has never been commonly used.
Google ngram of tony vs. toney
Skitt's Law
I think the word you want is "deprecated". It looks like "depreciated" is usable as an alternate definition for that word, but the financial use of "depreciated" is much more common.
Bad Data
That data stream doesn't differentiate between the name Tony and the adjectives tony and toney.
Gosh.
So much attention on capitalization (uncorrected remnant of earler cut and paste) and spelling (seems no one can decide, but the Herald, which is so far as I can tell is the biggest user of both terms as a dog whistle/pejorative, and which my comment was intended to mock), and so little focus on the substance of the development going age-restricted.
Given all of the hubbub over this development (and the years and years it has taken to get to this point), I expected more from the UHubbertariat.
Feels Good!
Tony!, Toni!, Tone! Has Done It Again!
stop it!
yer makin' me tone-deaf
It's quite a UHubbub.
It's quite a UHubbub.
Posh and poncy
Would be British alternatives.
Shhhhh!
How long until the elderly residents complain about all the noise from the adjacent ball fields?
Hope they add a pedestrian overpass or two to make getting around the intersection easier for them. Bit of a mess currently.