Hey, there! Log in / Register
Housing everywhere: Developer proposes residential units in Charlestown milk plant turned office and research park
By adamg on Fri, 09/09/2016 - 11:56pm
Hood Park, which has been turning the old HP Hood property on Rutherford Avenue into office and research space, wants to set aside part of the land for a 177-unit residential building, to create "a 21st-century mixed-use development."
In a proposed amendment to its BRA development plan for the site, Hood Park says the housing, at 480 Rutherford Ave., would come with just 90 parking spaces - but 170 bicycle spaces - a short walk from the Sullivan Square Orange Line stop, one that might eventually become safe for pedestrians once the city re-does Sullivan Square.
In February, another developer proposed 171 apartments where Rutherford Avenue and Cambridge Street come together. The Hood property is also near Somerville's Assembly Row mixed-use development.
Amended planned development area development plan, 480 Rutherford Ave. (3.2M PDF).
Neighborhoods:
Topics:
Ad:
Support Universal Hub
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
Comments
I pity anyone who lives here....
They just put a affordable housing building at the corner of the Bunker Hill Industrial park. Good long walk to get to ANYTHING. Convenience store, hot dog cart...NOTHING. You can get stuff from the canteen trucks that service the truckers and workers at the recycling plant (oh yeah the sweet smell of hot garbage wafting through the place in summer....mmmmm). Even once you get to Sullivan square, what's over there? NOTHING. Teamsters building? A lone bar where they hang out?
I work here and it is fine for that. I can't see how they want to cram housing into this highly industrialized area. Wake up to the sounds of Boston Sand and Gravel smashing rocks and the aroma of rotting garbage wafting through the air each day in your new half-million dollar condo...
There gonna need Trump to put his name on this to sell it!