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According to Brookline News, a developer is proposing to transform "what’s now a largely vacant office building and a bank surrounded by parking lots" into a high-end hotel and 500-plus units of housing. The plan "is to build three tall buildings around a 'mini town center' filled with green space, seating and a water feature." The project includes the following:
One building, which at 20 stories would be one of the tallest in Brookline, would have a 200- to 250-room hotel on the first six floors, including a large events space, spa and restaurants. Condos would fill the rest of the tower.

A second, 12-story building would have retail space on the first two floors and apartments above. And the third, at 13 stories high, would combine a multi-floor internal shopping atrium, medical offices and senior housing. The three would total 1.2 million square feet of development on a 5.3 acre site.
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Ped-oriented housing, hotel, and green space, a 12 minute walk from the D line?? This is a no-brainer.

To the Brookliners opposing this as "out of place in the neighborhood"... f off, this is not a neighboorhood, it's a goddamn stroad with parking lots on one side and a cemetery on the other. Everett would love to have this sort of transit access, but they don't have any problem building new housing. If you live in Brookline, please write your councillors in support of this project!

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I’m surprised theyre not trying to turn the existing building into apartments. Seems like a pretty good candidate for adaptive reuse.

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^ You can't really tell the layout of utilities, HVAC, support structure, stairwells, and elevators just by looking at the front of a building. Those might all have to change. As this board has discussed a billion times, offices centralize all their plumbing into a limited number of giant bathrooms and kitchenettes. Office tenants don't have many interior rooms so the windows serve a lot more people compared to residential tenants who want lots of separate little rooms with natural light.

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kdmc said:
Ped-oriented housing, hotel, and green space, a 12 minute walk from the D line?? This is a no-brainer.

To the Brookliners opposing this as "out of place in the neighborhood"... f off, this is not a neighboorhood, it's a goddamn stroad with parking lots on one side and a cemetery on the other. Everett would love to have this sort of transit access, but they don't have any problem building new housing. If you live in Brookline, please write your councillors in support of this project!

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That area of Route 9 is like the Indy 500 though. That's not an easy pedestrian stroll To the Green line station. A pedestrian bridge or tunnel below would be nice. As mapped in your post, that first half of the walk is hellacious. Once you get on Hammond Street, though, it's quite quaint.

I grew up down the road in the Highlands and, while that location may technically be "Brookline" it's character is much more vroom, vroom suburban autocentric Newton Route 9. The local authorities should kick in some pedestrian amenities to make that one work. I wouldn't buy/rent in that development unless serious changes to facilitate that.

The area across Boylston behind the Star Market/by Hammond Pond would be a far better location for this - - and far better for pedestrian access to Chestnut Hill Station.
 
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kdmc said:
Ped-oriented housing, hotel, and green space, a 12 minute walk from the D line?? This is a no-brainer.

To the Brookliners opposing this as "out of place in the neighborhood"... f off, this is not a neighboorhood, it's a goddamn stroad with parking lots on one side and a cemetery on the other. Everett would love to have this sort of transit access, but they don't have any problem building new housing. If you live in Brookline, please write your councillors in support of this project!

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Unfortunately Brookline doesn't have town (or City) councilors, so this will have to go through Brookline's rather large representative town meeting.
 
Texasian said:
A Brookline NIMBY’s dilemma: Wants Brookline to lower residential taxes, opposes developments that would help Brookline lower residential taxes.
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Are these the same people who comment something along the lines of...."my son/daughter/kids will never be able to afford to buy a house in this town"?
 
shmessy said:
The area across Boylston behind the Star Market/by Hammond Pond would be a far better location for this
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Where exactly are you referring to that would have space for a project this size? Also, that area across the street is not Brookline. The retail at The Street (and Hammond Pond) are located in Newton.
 
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