Brookline Infill and Small Developments

^ Ah yep I actually meant the Holiday Inn on Beacon - what was there before it was built?
 
Ah, so the original setback is what prompted the garden atrium along Beacon... nice.
 
The pics don't capture it well (uh I blame it on the rain, yeah) but there's a Peet's Coffee in there:

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A Peet's repeat?

I almost went to a Peet's in Berkeley but it smelled too much like Pee and not enough like tea so I left.
 
Not the use I would have picked for such an iconic building, but at least it's not just a bank.

Does anyone know if these cafe/banks keep longer hours than regular banks?
 
What's really annoying is that it took like 4 years for this to open. And in the end it's just a glorified Peet's, which Coolidge Corner already has on the other side.
 
Yeah I was there just after 6 and it was closed by then.
 
kz1000ps said:
Yeah I was there just after 6 and it was closed by then.
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What a sickeningly disturbing trend: we've gone from corporate sponsors of large venues, and now they're tacking small business. It's not enough to just have the demise of small business in favor of chain stores - fast forward twenty years, and your average Harvard Street store will be a combined Verizon/Starbucks/BofA or Peets/Sprint/Capital One, etc. How depressing.
 
Groundbreaking a few weeks ago on 32 affordable units at 86 Dummer St., replacing a parking lot between the Landry's block of Comm. Ave. and the area's existing BHA complex. Will have to swing by and see if anything nonceremonial is happening.

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Link, with apologies that it's via Wicked Local (as an aside, seriously, don't ever click a Wicked Local link -- if your computer is slow, it'll never work, and if your computer works, it'll soon be too slow).

The GC has a couple more renders here. Basketball court and playground are already there.
 
The Coolidge House rehab/long term care facility in Coolidge Corner is closing in December. Link: http://brookline.wickedlocal.com/article/20141013/NEWS/141018727

And map:
https://goo.gl/maps/4X7uP

It's not in the article, and there's nothing on record as of today, but the rumor I'm hearing is that the parent corp. has a developer buyer lined up. This building is eight stories with a small back parking lot and a large visible roof deck, sitting right between a high-end condo building and a big (for the neighborhood) Courtyard by Marriott hotel. And of course it's three steps from everything. Only thing for sure is that low-grade medical care is not the highest and best use for that spot. Any ideas what might be coming?
 
That's interesting news - Coolidge Corner could use some more banks and nail salons :)

Too bad about the Coolidge House, though. I think it was a facility that was very conveniently situatied to many people.
 
Reboot of sorts on Circle Cinema, though with a Summer 2015 construction date:

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/r...-developers-team-up-for-cleveland-circle.html

National Development is the group behind Ink Block. They do a lot of senior housing, which is what the apartments here will be geared for. Once again, NIMBY ranting has resulted in a development that will be completely off-limits to students. Once again, that should be illegal.
 
Equilibria said:
Reboot of sorts on Circle Cinema, though with a Summer 2015 construction date:

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/r...-developers-team-up-for-cleveland-circle.html

National Development is the group behind Ink Block. They do a lot of senior housing, which is what the apartments here will be geared for. Once again, NIMBY ranting has resulted in a development that will be completely off-limits to students. Once again, that should be illegal.
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How the hell is it not?
 
coleslaw said:
How the hell is it not?
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Well, this will be a development advertised as "senior housing," which ND can claim is not a restrictive covenant because it provides amenities specifically designed for the elderly. For all of these other restricted covenants, it's because no students are organized enough to fight in appeals courts for ten years (at which point those students have become old fogies who don't want to live near students), and universities can be browbeaten into providing on-campus housing.
 
Nothing to report on, just snapped a pic of it in situ.

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ErnieAdams said:
The Coolidge House rehab/long term care facility in Coolidge Corner is closing in December. Link: http://brookline.wickedlocal.com/article/20141013/NEWS/141018727
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I posted on this back in October, and now some details, apparently as first reported right here on archBOSTON.org (I couldn't find anything on the Googles). The building at 30 Webster Street traded on Feb. 20th for $19.6 million. Appears to be a cash deal - at least, no secured financing went to record. Buyer is the Coolidge Webster Realty Trust, trustee Adil Lamtioui, with a trust address for tax purposes of 1247 Beacon Street. That address houses a bunch of dentists, but assuming there isn't a Brookline Dental Megaplex in the works, 1247 Beacon is o/o by an LLC of the one and only Anwar Faisal, Mr. Alpha Management himself. Is Alpha looking to go high end in Coolidge Corner? That should be, uh, something.
 
Well there was a little blip of news the other day about Cleveland Circle.

A 92-unit senior housing complex would replace apartments under Newton-based National Development’s latest proposal for the former Cleveland Circle Cinema site.

Updated plans filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) call for 92 senior apartments for residents 62 and over, a 162-room hotel and 6,000 square feet of retail space.

The updated plans separate the hotel and apartments into two buildings ...
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Edited from this story (originated at B&T) http://the103advantage.com/92-senior-housing-units-added-cleveland-circle-development/
 
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