Agreed. As pointed out, this is a very short walk to the Orange Line's Tufts Medical stop. I used to catch the OL here everyday while commuting from the NY Streets Neighborood --> downtown. Super easy & convenient. Crossing the expressway is no issue at all. Silver Line is also a solid option and get's you right in the heart of DT Crossing. NO need for parking.
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*If* the grocery store is going to make it into the new building then I'd mildly disagree on the need for no parking...that existing lot there is small, but it's often full and sometimes traffic backups in it even spill out into Washington Street. The customer base relies on it.
That's why I kind of think the store won't be going in if there's no on-site capacity...
That's why I kind of think the store won't be going in if there's no on-site capacity...
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Don't they rely on the overflow of the garage across the street. Perhaps that just becomes the base parking capacity -- it is mostly empty on weekends when the market is busiest.
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100+ Affordable Units Approved in the South End
“Beacon Communities LLC and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England, Inc. have won approval to construct a seven-story, mixed-use building at 50 Herald Street. The building will include 117 affordable apartments, approximately 22,000 square feet of basement commercial space that could accommodate an urban grocery store, and approximately 2,350 square feet of ground-floor commercial space that will face Washington Street.”
https://www.bldup.com/posts/100-affordable-units-approved-in-the-south-end
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Alarm bells should be going off at how small (and crappy) this project is.100+ Affordable Units Approved in the South End
“Beacon Communities LLC and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England, Inc. have won approval to construct a seven-story, mixed-use building at 50 Herald Street. The building will include 117 affordable apartments, approximately 22,000 square feet of basement commercial space that could accommodate an urban grocery store, and approximately 2,350 square feet of ground-floor commercial space that will face Washington Street.”
https://www.bldup.com/posts/100-affordable-units-approved-in-the-south-end
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That is true.
Then there are tens of thousands of people who would be pleased, or more likely amused to hear that they are “very rich”.
Who? The people living in the oil slicks in Everett?
The regular people who occupy the thousands of units that have come online in the last several years that you say exist only for the very rich, very poor and students. The vast majority are not rich, poor or students.
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The projects discussed on this very website are almost all for the very poor, very rich, or students, or are in outer and less desirable areas of the city. You claim that there are “thousands of units” that have been built, which is bragging about gaining two yards on a run play while down 30 points in the third quarter. For the record, the entire city of Boston approved of (not built!) a total of 3000 units per year for the past three years, effectively capping the city’s growth at 0.4%. Austin Texas is growing 5 times faster, mostly because people can have homes and live there.
This project sacrificed 200 units for no reason. That’s 200 families who will have to live somewhere else, perhaps a region that values the human need for shelter.
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Size is dictated by available financing means. You want more modest priced units get someone in power to pony up the cash.
CCBA does have a focus in affordable units. But the only other choice is the direction that the ACDC takes, which is about 50% affordable, 50% luxury. Neither way delivers mid-priced units in Boston.
CCBA does have a focus in affordable units. But the only other choice is the direction that the ACDC takes, which is about 50% affordable, 50% luxury. Neither way delivers mid-priced units in Boston.
There's absolutely no reason that CCBA couldn't add moderately priced units, essentially those affordable at 100% and 120% of AMI to this project, rather than cutting 60+% of the housing. In fact, affordable housing subsidy programs usually only require 60% of the building be affordable; this one could have funded additional size by putting in a substantial market rate component. These pieces all interlock.