16-Story Apartment Tower | 76 Ashford Street | Allston

The open grassy field fetishists are going to give us a lot of vacant lots to avoid exactly that ^
 
BCDC: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/c03qfr5lejomarjnubcvixmsu6kexkef

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Definitely nice to get the new street connection here too, though there needs to be a couple more.
 
Yeah, this is a good solid project of which Bos/Cam could use 20 or 30 more. Hopefully this actually breaks ground within the next year or so. Although with interest rates, materials costs and general economic uncertainty, I'm not super optimistic. I would love to be wrong.
 
17-story apartment building approved for Allston's GAP; half its lot will be saved for use by MBTA's proposed West Station
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“The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved City Realty's proposal for a 17-story, 254-unit apartment building at Ashford and Malvern streets in Allston.

A key part of the plan: Roughly half the lot, now occupied by a one-story warehouse and parking lot, would be held for the proposed West Station, should that ever actually be built. The proposal calls for City Realty to sell that land to the state, which would, if it builds West Station - use the land to extend Malvern Street to the station and use it for a busway for the station, along with dedicated "cycle track" bike lanes. The station, if built, would serve both existing Allston and the massive development Harvard is planning for the former train yard next door…”

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/17-story-apartment-building-approved-allstons-gap
 
....and they have no plans to build it anytime soon
 
This smells of land banking… this building overlooks BU’s aging track and tennis center and it’s likely they couldn’t stand the idea of something going up next to it
 
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To give people an idea... they own the whole block minus that building. It's 76 Ashford, track and tennis center, BU Vending/Mail services, and then the band room/athletics offices/crew room.
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Per the master plan they want that whole block (you're looking at site T). They also want the star market lot.
 
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