Dot Block | Dot Ave, Greenmount St, Hancock St | Dorchester

Justbuildit · Apr 5, 2025

DZH22 said:
Wow, 637 units across the state's flagship city, what an incredible "commitment" by Mayor Wu!

For reference (to be fair it's an AI Overview thing) google is telling me there are approximately 160,000 people on the waiting list. So wow, after Mayor Wu solves all of our problems with her forward thinking pro-development agenda, the rest of the state will only need to cover a paltry 159,363 applicants! Boston sure is leading the way with this one!

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I mean the real outcome is that no one will cover this and the list will grow and housing affordability will get worse. There’s no obligation that falls to a larger entity. The state doesn’t NEED to do anything.

More affordable housing (through market or interventional means) is good, and if it is use of allocated capital to finalize affordability requirements it’s all the better. This project is clearly not enough but if for < $60k per unit they can lock in affordability it seems…fine?

FK4 · Apr 6, 2025

Suffolk 83 said:
You don’t live in the city so your opinion is completely irrelevant

I know it’s more complicated than the snark, but 64 million is a lot of money for a small city like Boston. And I think it’s a fair question, especially when the city has throttled development for decades and continues to do so, to ask how much sense it makes to simultaneously prevent development
and also demand endless concessions from developers, and thereby driving up construction and housing costs, then pumping tens of millions of dollars to come to a rather minuscule rescue of the problems city policy created in the first place. While unrestricted development and no height limits perhaps (at least in the short term) not solve all the local housing problems, that really is the root cause here. So I agree with the cynicism because unless the city is actually going to make visionary-level changes to its zoning policies, we’re just gonna be stuck with endless high costs while feel-good, seemingly progressive micro-interventions like this get trumpeted as some sort of huge victory. Yes, it’s something, but we are so obscenely far from what’s actually needed I think it’s a valid point to draw attention to the fact that this project, like basically every single thing that gets done in Boston, contributes collectively very little in terms of overall numbers and needs of the citizens. Just like everything else in 2025–we are in desperate need of truly revolutionary changes, yet nobody wants to budge and the outcome is always, in reality, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

sm89 · Apr 22, 2025

I got a notice for an abutters meeting concerning Chilacates moving into one of the vacant spaces at Dot Block. That would join the (still under construction) Dot Block Diner and Sweet Teez.

stick n move · Jul 16, 2025

New diner sets up shop in Dot Block

“The Dot Block Diner opened for business this week, mixing a little of the old with the new in the neighborhood breakfast game and bringing the first ground-floor retail activity to the Dorchester Avenue complex that began to house hundreds of residents in 2023.

Bernie Goodman, the founder of McKenna’s Café in Savin Hill, is the owner-operator of the 49-seat diner, with 20 outdoor seats on the way. The eatery will serve breakfast and lunch, specializing in waffles, and will experiment with take-out from 4-6 p.m. once staff members get their feet under them, Goodman said this week inside the rustically modern space…….”

New diner sets up shop in Dot Block | Dorchester Reporter

The Dot Block Diner opened for business this week, mixing a little of the old with the new in the neighborhood breakfast game and bringing the first ground-floor retail activity to the Dorchester Avenue complex that began to house hundreds of residents in 2023. Bernie Goodman, the founder of...

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stick n move · Feb 17, 2026

"As part of HLC’s Affordable Housing Development grant program, the administration is awarding a combination of federal and state Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) and HLC subsidy funds for:"

Dot block phase II

"Dot Block Phase II Hancock Building (Boston) — 84 homes. New construction affordable mid-rise in Dorchester sponsored by Samuels & Associates in partnership with Morningside. All units will be affordable to households earning less than 60 percent AMI, including 17 homes for households earning less than 30 percent AMI, with nine homes reserved for households at risk of homelessness, and the project will include green and sustainable design features."