61-83 Braintree St | Brighton

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Thats to Equilibria for finding the plans for this.



"This Project Notification Form (PNF) was written to describe in full The Waypoint Companies’ proposal for 61-83 Braintree Street in Allston, MA. The project is located in a Light Industrial Zone, but the character of the surrounding community is much more diverse than the local zoning gives it credit for. The neighborhood has a mix of back door business, commercial tenancies, and residential nooks. The community’s diversity is in large part the driving force behind this proposal. And the economics of the residents and workers allows for a successful rental project of this scale and design.
The proposal calls for the demolition of 2 existing buildings totaling approximately 30,000 square feet. The site has some environmental remediation that will take place on a small portion of the site. Once cleared an 80-unit rental project will take its place. The building will be approximately 93,000 square feet and will contain 2,550 square feet of commercial space and hold 67 parking spaces in an underground parking facility and 2 at-grade truck deck spaces."


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Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

Sorry this is in Allston, can a mod change the title please.
 
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Those are modular. They put them up in literally less than a day.
 
Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

Since you quoted from the PNF about it being in a "Light Industrial" zone. This just shows that zoning code is out of date with planning by the BRA/BPDA in the Guest Street Planning Study that designated this area as a live/work extension of Allston Village. The study also put Braintree by the pike at 6-12 stories, which this is on the lower end of.

Not mentioned in the PNF is that the building was advertised as having startup incubator space, which leaves me puzzled, but I guess is just the commercial space?
 
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bosdevelopment said:
Those are modular. They put them up in literally less than a day.
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They have definitely spent more than a day putting them up. They've been ruining my route to work and home every day for more than a week.

I even watched them putting the first unit in place last Tuesday before having to turn around on Penniman.

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Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

In my mind this is actually a pretty big deal that this is the first large modular construction project in the Boston area. (That I have noticed). If the city is to produce a large amount of middle class housing amid a sky high construction costs, Modular might be the solution.
 
Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

Can a mod change the title to allston? Thanks.
 
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Hydrobus said:
In my mind this is actually a pretty big deal that this is the first large modular construction project in the Boston area. (That I have noticed). If the city is to produce a large amount of middle class housing amid a sky high construction costs, Modular might be the solution.
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http://the103advantage.com/modular-construction-address-regions-housing-shortage/

"In a release, the companies boasted that the 61-89 Braintree St. project would be the “largest modular construction project in the city of Boston” "

It would seem that it is.
 
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It looks like they left room for the billboard in constructing this. Its hard to tell how it will look when completed only from the arch drawings. Is there really enough profit in a billboard to design an apartment building around it?
 
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My company has rented a billboard downtown in a lower traffic area and it was roughly $6500/month. I imagine this would fetch more from the volume of the pike.
 
Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

As built this is 6 floors, renderings show only 5. Hope the design has improved too as well as getting taller.
 
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navigator4 said:
It looks like they left room for the billboard in constructing this. Its hard to tell how it will look when completed only from the arch drawings. Is there really enough profit in a billboard to design an apartment building around it?
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When the original developers bought the property, the previous owner wanted an easement to keep the billboard. So, the two parties must have reached a point where this is what made sense to get the deal done.

(For those curious see 50133/342 and 50134/1 in the suffolk registry of deeds)
 
Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

Jeez, NBC is now on Channel 10? I remember when NBC good ol' WBZ / channel 4.
 
Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

Yeah, well Arch MacDonald, Rex, Pedro and Big Brother Bob aren't walking in through that door, old man!
 
Re: 61-83 Braintree st | Brighton

I got to get a pic of the bill board jutting into the building on the mass pike side
 
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