1274 Massachusetts Avenue | Dorchester

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Six-story apartment building approved for Dorchester's big-pear square​

“The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans for a six-story, 45-unit apartment building on a parcel that stretches from Massachusetts Avenue to Boston Street in Edward Everett Square in Dorchester, home of the city's largest statue of a pear(link is external).

Developer Doug George's plans for 1274 Massachusetts Ave. include eight affordable apartments. Also: First-floor retail space and 25 parking spaces in an underground garage. In a filing with the Boston Planning Department, he said access to the parking would be via a ramp at the neighboring 1258 Massachusetts Ave., which he previously built…..”

Six-story apartment building approved for Dorchester's big-pear square

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans for a six-story, 45-unit apartment building on a parcel that stretches from Massachusetts Avenue to Boston Street in Edward Everett Square in Dorchester, home of the city's largest statue of a pear. Read more.

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[DZH22]

It's bad enough 90% of updates nowadays are just a bunch of the "infill" threads showcasing this type of build. (go to Universal Hub and check out their projects feed and this is literally every new project going back multiple pages) Do we really need separate threads for 5-over-1's?

It's like we settled on the worst building type possible and said "let's make the rest of the city out of this." Some of them look better than others, but we know that underneath they all have paper-thin walls and aren't being built to last. None of these types of buildings deserve their own threads.

 

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It has 2 sides the back is different than the front and both sides are brick. I dont think this project is so bad.

The back

The side facing mass ave is next to a large building that was made to resemble an old warehouse and so it looks more like a regular apartment building that would face a main road.

The side facing boston street looks more like 3 row houses which will be tucked in between the existing triple deckers.

Heres the site its going on

And the presentation

2024-07-29_Small Project Review Application (SPRA)_1274 Massachusetts Avenue.pdf | Powered by Box

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Id have no problem living here whatsoever. This looks a lot better than many of the crooked, lead paint peeling off triple deckers around my neighborhood (which is just down the street from here).

 

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It has 2 sides the back is different than the front and both sides are brick. I dont think this project is so bad.

The back
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The side facing mass ave is next to a large building that was made to resemble an old warehouse and so it looks more like a regular apartment building that would face a main road.
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The side facing boston street looks more like 3 row houses which will be tucked in between the existing triple deckers.
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Heres the site its going on
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And the presentation

2024-07-29_Small Project Review Application (SPRA)_1274 Massachusetts Avenue.pdf | Powered by Box

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Id have no problem living here whatsoever. This looks a lot better than many of the crooked, lead paint peeling off triple deckers around my neighborhood (which is just down the street from here).
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Realistically speaking this is the kind of project Boston needs in spades to alleviate the housing crunch, not fantastical towers with the delusion of buyers vacating properties that trickle all the way from a $3m condo to a $500k starter home.

 

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Whether Boston "needs" this type of project or not, I still haven't seen justification for why a random 5-over-1 should have its own thread and not just get lumped in with the general infill threads.