500 Western Avenue | Brighton

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500 Western Avenue

“The project would transform a vacant and non-conforming industrial site in north Brighton, with a new six (6) story building of approximately 99,000 gross square feet, including 116 residential apartments and artist live-work units, ground floor retail, below-grade parking for its residences and a “district parking” program to address the City’s planned reduction of on-street spaces along Western Avenue (the “Project”). It would also replace and upgrade inaccessible sidewalks, impervious surfaces and lacking open space, with improved connectivity, robust street tree canopies and new public realm. As a de facto density bonus, the Project also seeks to exceed the City’s Inclusionary Development Policy, by dedicating approximately eighteen percent (18%) of its total units for a wider range of income-restricted housing.”

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/500-western-avenue

 

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New Western Avenue apartment building will feature public parking to replace on-street spots planned for removal​

“The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by the owner of the former Irving gas station at 500 Western Ave. to replace it with a six-story, 116-unit apartment building that will feature a new vest-pocket park, new street trees and a parking garage that will include 64 metered parking spaces for use by the public, to replace the on-street spaces the city is planning to remove along Western Avenue to make way for dedicated bus and bicycle lanes.

Ardo Garabedian's plans for the building, located across a narrow side street from the Radius building at Western Avenue and Birmingham Parkway, also include eight apartments set aside as live/work units for artists and room for a small market, as well as solar panels on the roof to help power the building's heat pumps and electrical appliances.

Some 21 of the units will be rented as affordable.

In addition to the "district" parking spaces for the public, the two-level garage will also include 64 spaces - 6 for electric vehicles - that tenants of the building can rent in addition to their base apartment rent.

Garabedian's lawyer, Joseph Hanley, said the site is ready for construction - Garabedian has torn down his old gas station and cleaned up the underlying ground, including by removing the gas tanks.

The Brighton Allston Improvement Association supported the proposal. The Allston Civic Association, though, was split. Association President Tony D'Isidoro said some members expressed anxiety about the "continued growth and density" in the Western Avenue corridor, while others were excited by the addition of more density through a new mixed-use building - along with the new open space and the public parking.

City Councilor Liz Breadon supported the proposal, as did Sean McDonnell of the nearby Speedway, who said the "community parking" was particularly important to his enterprise.

The BPDA board approved the proposal last August.”

500 Western Ave. filings.

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/new-western-avenue-apartment-building-will-feature

 

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The ugliest one yet!

 

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The ugliest one yet!

Your opinion. And I get it, you're new here- so welcome, honestly. In the meantime, if you're going to state an opinion, people here appreciate you giving your REASONS for the opinion. Otherwise, it's just a spitball.

And if you actually READ the list of things above that this development brings to the table (and if you actually LIKE cities) you would love the change this development brings to a derelict concrete surface parking lot. The solar panels on the roof, the expansion of the pedestrian sidewalk, the bus lanes and the bike lanes that this will shepherd. The 116 new residential units in a city that desperately needs them. The 8 live/work artists units that are desperately needed (unless we want to become Houston). This development hits so many targets with one stone. I wish all developments were this type of Swiss army knife of urban benefits.

And I happen to like the architecture here in this context. Is it Rowes Wharf or the Converse HQ? No, but it's truly better than it's location. And it vastly improves it.

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