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Construction company proposes replacing its own Dot Ave. headquarters with apartments
By adamg on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 10:53am
Architect's rendering.
Connelly Construction is proposing a 20-unit apartment building at1857-1859 Dorchester Ave. that would replace a parking lot and a building that houses its own headquarters, three blocks north of the Ashmont T station.
Under plans filed with the BPDA, the building would have 16 two-bedroom units and 4 1-bedroom units. Three would be marketed as affordable. The first floor would be leased as commercial space.
Connelly proposes 24 parking spaces for the building; the area's zoning would normally require 32.
1857-1859 Dorchester Ave. small-project review application (1.6M PDF).
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Beacon Street in Back Bay
it would be nice if we can create a nice looking street with a row of single family homes again....like beacon street in back bay.
Now we have to move to
Now we have to move to Roxbury or Dorchester which will soon be the same rent as JP!! What about folks who have been displaced in other parts of Boston and are now borderline and/or homeless? Anything for them? And yes, I do work but don't make enough money to live near my job and feed my family.
Who is displaced?
No one lives on that parcel now. It's a parking lot and an office. People who are "displaced" from other neighborhoods can live here, in fact, so this is for them.
How is this for them? Do you
How is this for them? Do you already know what the rent amounts will be? Just because something is "affordable" to the lawyers writing the law doesn't mean it's affordable to the people who are working their asses of and struggling to get a roof over their heads.
Got To Love The Hate For New Housing
I'm probably older than a lot of the posters here. I can say with very good recall that I remember when houses were being torn down on this section of Dot Ave. because no one wanted them. I can also recall buildings of this size and configuration only steps from here that used to magically catch on fire because they were worth more burned than habitatated.
For gawd's sakes someone is building multi family housing within steps of an MBTA station along a section of Dot Ave that has seen worse days.
I'm glad it is seeing better days. You want to live the down and out lifestyle with corresponding rent? Move to Springfield.
Anything for the borderline/homeless?
3 brand new units of affordable housing where there was no housing before.
On behalf of the developers, you're welcome.
How many condos for childless
How many condos for childless couples and single professionals can the neighborhood support? This would be, what, the third building?
Many more
Considering the number of family units (3 and 4 bedrooms) occupied by adult roommates (single and not-single) all over the city, the demand for housing for single people and childless couples seems huge.
And OMG THREE (3!) BUILDINGS! How will tiny village like Boston cope with THREE (3!) BUILDINGS!?
Given the number of childless
Given the number of childless couples and single professionals in this neighborhood currently living with roommates, I suspect the neighborhood could "support"at least another 30 or 40 of these before you started to see a stabilization of rents. We are not even coming close to building enough.
That is one ugly building
That is one ugly building
I'm not surprised by this
The old R B Cooke building, a warehouse for a moving company, which is next to this, got turned into "loft" condos last year. And with Trinity putting up yet another apartment building across from Ashmont Station, Peabody Square and the surrounding area are being heavily marketed as "transit oriented". The Connellys are also building another complex on the Banton Street lot a couple of blocks north of here. Just south of Ashmont Station an apartment building got rehabbed and branded as "Ashmont Landing".
They're not marketing it...
... As transit oriented development. It IS transit oriented development. We practically invented the concept in Boston when we put in all those newfangled streetcar lines and housing developments on former farmland 125 years ago. This is an ideal place for housing because way back when, it was built for housing. There's no better place to put new housing than infill development like this.
And no, the laws of supply and demand have not magically been suspended for Dorchester. There's more demand for housing near transit than supply. Thus, prices go up. Thus, developers build more as it is now profitable to do so. Eventually, supply and demand will level off and prices will flatten. Then something will happen to dampen demand (probably not soon, but someday) and prices will fall, development will cease, and we can go back to being the depressed, crime ridden city you so fondly remember.
Thank you
I think it's a tie between you and John Costello for most logical posts of day (year?) on this page. I can't believe the hate for new housing. This isn't millennium tower for Christ's sake.
Agree 100%. Well, really 90%.
Agree 100%. Well, really 90%. I don't think we're ever going back to the depressed, crime ridden days when property values were low and white folks were fleeing to the suburbs. That event wasn't a cyclical part of the economic cycle, it was a byproduct of a century of discriminatory policies that drove white people to the suburbs made financing a home in the inner city completely undesirable for those who weren't forced to do so.