A Newton developer says it will soon file plans with the BPDA for a 21-story building with 265 residential units, offices and ground-floor retail space at 323-345 Dorchester Ave., next to the F.W. Webb building, the first step in turning at least ten acres of land now used for low-rise industrial and commercial buildings into a new mixed-use area.
In a letter of intent filed with the agency, National Development says the proposal for the building, on a site now occupied by a single-story industrial building and a parking lot, will include "significant open space, which will provide much needed outdoor amenity space for the neighborhood."
The letter adds that even before it files plans for the rest of the ten acres, it will use large parts of that land for "parking, events and other active and passive uses that are complimentary to the project, pending future development of those areas."
The company announced this past spring it had acquired the ten acres along Dorchester Avenue near its intersection with Old Colony Avenue.
The company says it will file for a "planned development area," which will let it and the BPDA toss the area's existing zoning and negotiate a development agreement for the overall site without the company having to go before the zoning board for variances for each of the buildings.
Among the company's projects: The sprawling University Station in Westwood, near the Rte. 128 train station, which combines a mall with residences and offices.
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Ink Block
By WalkingTheDog
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 12:38pm
National Development is the developer of Ink Block on Harrison Ave. in the South End.
FWW
By johnmcboston
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 2:57pm
And Interesting there was an FW Webb adjacent to that proposal as well.
Really? Where?
By WalkingTheDog
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 5:38pm
Graybar Electric Supply was located across the street from Ink Block, but Ink Block is on the former Boston Herald site (and a few smaller lots on the Albany Street side).
223 Albany St
By JohnAKeith
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 7:08pm
Use Google Maps and search on 223 Albany St, Boston
Then use their Street View and use their time machine feature to go back to a view earlier than June 2014.
https://goo.gl/maps/pBaUpbkRyCgiNmMy6
Didn't know that.
By WalkingTheDog
Thu, 12/19/2019 - 7:19am
Thanks. (Also didn't know about the time machine feature. Thanks again.)
Build it
By Jim C
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 1:49pm
n/t
Don't Build it
By not Jim C
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 6:01pm
n/t
Can transportation and infrastructure keep up?
By anony-mouse
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 3:06pm
There's a lot of room to develop in that area. Can transportation and infrastructure keep up?
No
By anon
Thu, 12/19/2019 - 8:11pm
but Mahty has target to meet.
But... but...
By Rob
Wed, 12/18/2019 - 11:23pm
But... but...
Midtowne!
The Olympics!
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What will this do to the dream?
Gold's Gym
By bostonj
Thu, 12/19/2019 - 7:08am
Will this mean that Gold's gym will be torn down?
If they're proposing transit-oriented development
By ScottB
Thu, 12/19/2019 - 10:54am
The walk on Dot Ave to either Broadway or Andrew is kinda hairy. And yeah, that's where the Gold's Gym is, so I'd assume that's going to get torn down.
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