Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

^ It's a renovated Navy Yard building, what did you expect?
 
I thought it was a new build. I was hoping for something with a little more of the industrial detailing evident in the nearby buildings.
 
I think it is Starboard Place and is new construction.

http://www.kavanaghadvisory.com/projects/details/parcel-39a

However, the Navy Yard is a National Historic Park, and the Federal government calls the design shots. In this instance, the design had to be compatible with Civil War era buildings.

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Old Bunker Hill Pavilion may become a child care center. Property is apparently owned by National Development Corp.

The National Park Service is seeking to lease the Hoosac Stores warehouse, next to the former pavillion building.

http://patch.com/massachusetts/charlestown/history-of-hoosac-stores-1-2

http://www.concessions.nps.gov/docs/news/NER/Hoosac_RFP.pdf
 
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My mistake, I didn't realize the original building was taken down for this. But as stellar said, the feds call the shots in the Navy Yard. The units will rent like hotcakes no matter what the building looks like.
 
I believe the concept would be that the city/BHA signs long-term lease to developer to maintain 1100 units of public housing in the developer's new development. The article suggests that all 1100 units would be rebuilt (?) as well as potentially as many market-rate apartments/condos on the land currently occupied by Bunker Hill project.

Assuming this is the idea, doubling density at public housing sites throughout the city (while delivering modern, new units) seems like a win-win. Isn't there something occuring/planned in Roxbury at Whittier Housing?
 
I'd have to assume the plan is to rebuild everything completely, because 1) they'd probably have to in order to get the quality up to market rate standards, and 2) the project is probably at the end of it's life cycle anyway.
 
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Berkeley Investments plans loft-style apartment buildings in Charlestown

Berkeley’s plans include an adaptive reuse of a three-story industrial building at 32 Cambridge St. — currently the home of Graphic Arts Finishers Inc. — into 52 apartments and 2,500-square-feet of ground-floor retail space. The project also includes demolishing an adjacent one-story building at 572 Rutherford Ave. and building a four-story, 119-unit apartment building in its place.
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A letter of intent filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority says buildings will be linked via a third-story connection and include features such as a courtyard, dog run and landscaped areas. The community will also have 16 surface parking spaces and 97 below-grade spaces.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/r...y-investments-plans-loft-style-apartment.html

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does anyone know when work will commence on either the rope walk or chain forge buildings?
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I don't know that they have a developer with money for the rope walk building. The chain force building requires $10 million+ of remediation before they can start the renovation.
 
The ropewalk developer received an extension yesterday.

Indeed, in another vote yesterday, the board agreed to extend the time a developer has to arrange financing to turn the old Ropewalk building into apartments and a museum after it said arranging financing was proving more complex than expected due to the potential costs of cleaning up the building.
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http://www.universalhub.com/2015/bra-wants-borrow-clean-charlestown-navy-yard-would

Also, the BRA wants to clean up the site itself and then pay for it through tax revenue.

The BRA board yesterday approved a new way to spur more development in the Charlestown Navy Yard: Issue bonds to clean up decades of pollution that would then be repaid through the new tax revenue the development would bring.
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