6-Story Multifamily Proposed Along North Beacon St.
“Alpha Management has proposed a 6-story multifamily at 23-25 North Beacon Street in Allston. The proposed project includes the demolition of an existing three-story residential structure and the construction of a six-story, 25-unit multi-family building. The development will replace an existing parking area at the rear of the site with shared open space for building residents, reducing impervious surface and increasing usable green space.”
https://www.bldup.com/posts/6-story-multifamily-proposed-along-north-beacon-st
6-Story Multifamily Proposed Along North Beacon St.
“Alpha Management has proposed a 6-story multifamily at 23-25 North Beacon Street in Allston. The proposed project includes the demolition of an existing three-story residential structure and the construction of a six-story, 25-unit multi-family building. The development will replace an existing parking area at the rear of the site with shared open space for building residents, reducing impervious surface and increasing usable green space.”
https://www.bldup.com/posts/6-story-multifamily-proposed-along-north-beacon-st
You're completely right, and I don't think I articulated my concerns with this correctly in my first post. This is a great way to add some much needed housing to Allston with gentle density. However, it would not be allowed under any S+S zones. It is one floor to tall for S2, and doesn't have the active ground floor for S3. While this obviously isn't a problem now, it will be once the zoning is applied to Allston Village. Building something that will likely be zoning non-compliant in a few years will just cause future headaches for both the developer and the neighborhood, so it would be better to see it addressed now instead of later.
Ringer park is like a 10 minute walk away.....Board likes proposed Allston apartment building but tells developer to come back with some more open space on the lot
"The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday rejected plans for a 14-unit apartment building - with three affordable units - at 17 Linden St., saying that while they and the Boston Planning Department both agree it would be a great addition to the side street off Cambridge Street, it just needs to be pruned back a bit to add some more open space in an area nowhere near a park."
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/board-likes-proposed-allston-apartment-building
That's potentially a good idea, but the developer proposed cutting the parking for green space and the ZBA wouldn't play ball. Unacceptable.
I'd honestly be completely fine with it if the ZBA had clear and consistent open space expectations. This is a completely reasonable ask, but it should have come up much sooner and shouldn't be delaying the project.
This is one of the best projects I've seen recently in AB. There's tons of new housing, significantly less parking than units, and it's located near 3 decent bus routes as well as Boston Landing. The bike network is dramatically improving in this area (on Leo Birmingham, North Beacon, and hopefully Western Ave soon) and it sound like there will be a BlueBikes dock on site. It sound like all of the existing large trees are being kept, and roughly 80 more will be planted as well. Really the only complaint I have is that they're not building taller.Radio tower, studios could make way for apartments on Leo Birmingham Parkway in Brighton
"A developer has filed plans to replace a building housing radio stations and an antenna tower on Leo Birmingham Parkway across from Lincoln Street in Brighton with an eight-story, 338-unit apartment building."
"The building would be all electric, with no gas hookups, and would have 175 parking spaces in an underground garage, according to the filing."
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/radio-tower-studios-could-make-way-apartments-leo
https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/83-leo-m-birmingham-parkway
