Allston-Brighton Infill and Small Developments

mssrro said:
249 Corey Road (33 units)



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I used to walk past 249 Corey Rd all the time and I was always a bit disappointed by the blank walls on the exposed corner of the ground floor. It’s very clearly a basement parking garage and while I know a mini corner retail space would be too much to expect, they could have at least put a small bike room in that corner with an entrance and a window. As it is now, the building is very imposing to a pedestrian walking uphill. I’m sure once the landscaping grows in it’ll be better
 
astroTrain27 said:
I used to walk past 249 Corey Rd all the time and I was always a bit disappointed by the blank walls on the exposed corner of the ground floor. It’s very clearly a basement parking garage and while I know a mini corner retail space would be too much to expect, they could have at least put a small bike room in that corner with an entrance and a window. As it is now, the building is very imposing to a pedestrian walking uphill. I’m sure once the landscaping grows in it’ll be better
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This section of Allston has always felt blighted by an absence of any trees or vegetation, both street trees and also nothing in any of the lots. The architecture is shitty early/mid 20th century bland brick stuff, zero charm. Too bad it looks like this building continued that tradition.
 
astroTrain27 said:
I used to walk past 249 Corey Rd all the time and I was always a bit disappointed by the blank walls on the exposed corner of the ground floor. It’s very clearly a basement parking garage and while I know a mini corner retail space would be too much to expect, they could have at least put a small bike room in that corner with an entrance and a window. As it is now, the building is very imposing to a pedestrian walking uphill. I’m sure once the landscaping grows in it’ll be better
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Hard for me to judge clearly from the pics but I suspect it would be difficult/impossible to actually put an ADA-compliant entrance at that corner that directly goes out to the street corner, at least assuming the door on the side of the building in the 2nd pic is at the ground level.

Maybe you could put one on the side of the 2nd pic and raise the retaining wall higher - so you still have to go over to the entrance for the door that is there to get to it from the road, but I'm not sure if that would work out less imposing to the pedestrian walking by, with a taller wall right in their face.
 
1954 Commonwealth Avenue

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"[The Proponent] proposes to develop a 26-unit multi-family residential development by relocating closer to Commonwealth Avenue and preserving the Site’s existing historic residence [...] and constructing behind the house a new 6-story building with connected central lobby including one (1) level of parking beneath the rear building. The Project will reconfigure the interiors of both the existing house and the rear building to align the unit mix with community demand and market realities, by increasing the units in the existing house from 3 to 6, increasing the 13 units currently permitted in the rear building to 20 units, and preserving the exterior dimensions of those structures."

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/1954-commonwealth-avenue
 
BeansTheCat said:
1954 Commonwealth Avenue

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"[The Proponent] proposes to develop a 26-unit multi-family residential development by relocating closer to Commonwealth Avenue and preserving the Site’s existing historic residence [...] and constructing behind the house a new 6-story building with connected central lobby including one (1) level of parking beneath the rear building. The Project will reconfigure the interiors of both the existing house and the rear building to align the unit mix with community demand and market realities, by increasing the units in the existing house from 3 to 6, increasing the 13 units currently permitted in the rear building to 20 units, and preserving the exterior dimensions of those structures."

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/1954-commonwealth-avenue
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I'm pretty sure this house and the apartment buildings next to it are roughly the same age. Would prefer that they just tear this down and complete the street wall.
 
sm89 said:
I'm pretty sure this house and the apartment buildings next to it are roughly the same age. Would prefer that they just tear this down and complete the street wall.
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Yeah, seems stupid. But I have to say, I never noticed this house here and I love houses sitting in the middle of cities. Would be so cool to live there.
 
I think looks silly but I also like this it adds quirkiness and uniqueness to this stretch instead of the generic 5 overs that are built every other block now.
 
mssrro said:
433 Washington Street (Chase Bank - formerly the site of Balamao and Bangkok Bistro)

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So on this prominent site we're going from a woefully underutilized one-story commercial structure to a woefully underutilized one-story commercial structure. Cool.

Also, is this an art?

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awood91 said:
Quite a relief considering the render shows the building completely crooked haha
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Ha I hadn’t noticed that, that’s funny, but the materials also look blech and cheap but the brick and stone look nice so far in real life. Hopefully the projected portions’ materials aren’t too plasticky. We’ll see. Brighton Center is dying for some height though so I’m a big fan of this. I count Market St as one of the ugliest roads in Boston. I don’t know what it is about Catholicism in Boston, but every Catholic property is always a blight on the area, in my opinion: for whatever reason, the churches are always almost totally treeless, have lots of barren and unuseable green space, and huge parking lots. The complex by the West Roxbury rotary and a lot of the now sold properties near BC, and many others… that complex on market just kills the entire street. They really couldn’t plant some trees to shield the view of that giant parking lot?
 

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