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A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and a neighboring auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain.
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Apartments is apartments, says Stan

A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and a neighboring auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
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sm89 said:
I'm confused about the approved gas station expansion plans here from a couple months back? https://www.universalhub.com/2024/more-gas-gas-says-stan-jamaica-plain-gas-station
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Last paragraph in that link:

"......Last fall, a developer proposed replacing the entire station with condos, but nothing official was ever filed with the BPDA. The proposal to add new pumps was reviewed by an ISD inspector on March 1 of this year, according to a stamp on the plans."

In effect, the proposal (negotiating tactic) was to go from 12 pumps on 6 islands to 20 pumps on 8 eight islands (that's almost highway rest-stop sized) and the additional 8 pumps would've been at the property line in back bordering the Kenton Street area neighborhood. Hard to fathom what already existed in that narrow Washington Street corridor. The proposal was outlandish.

So I'm guessing that was a "jack up the price" or "get a development agreement easier" negotiating tactic.
 
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Plus they already covered the traffic angle since they undoubtedly were met with complaints about increased traffic by the neighbors.

“According to Hassell's traffic consultant, the new buildings will generate a bit less daily traffic than the current gas station and auto-body shop, which also has an impound lot.”

Making the gas station nearly twice as big would bring nearly twice the traffic. So either pick the condos which brings less traffic than before or you get twice the traffic.
 
Looks like a great project. There should be so much more density around all the OL stations in JP!
 
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