Developer files plans to replace Brighton synagogue and ritual bath - and add apartments

A developer this week filed formal plans with the BRA to build a new synagogue and mikvah at 101 and 105 Washington St. in Brighton and to supplement them with a 73-unit, seven story apartment building.

Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe and the Daughters of Israel Mikvah both sit in pre-war houses that would be replaced by new buildings, under the proposal by Brookline developer Jeffrey Feuerman. Mikvahs are baths used monthly by observant Jewish women.

It's one of several proposed projects that could mean major changes for Washington Street between Comm. Ave. and Brighton Center - other developers have filed plans for a 679-unit complex behind St. Elizabeth and a 287-unit complex at 139 Washington St.

The 101-105 apartment building, which would be comparable in height to the buildings in the surrounding Fidelis Way project, would have 64 parking spaces and storage space for 73 bicycles.

The three buildings of the Proposed Project derive their massing and form from the varied existing conditions that abut the Site, responding in a cohesive campus that mitigates a transition between several distinct grains in the urban fabric. Materials and articulation are informed by historic building typologies, to give the residential building an appropriate scale and texture, and the Synagogue and Mikvah a civic presence appropriate to their function.

101-105 Washington project notification form (27M PDF).