Dorchester Infill and Small Developments

except that none of it is particularly fun to walk around aside from the harborwalk
 
Couldn't find a better place for this:

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New Housing for the Growing Columbia Point Neighborhood
Total Project Cost: $60 million
Total SF: 175,000 SF
Housing Units: 184 units, 24 affordable units
Jobs: 200 construction jobs
LEED: LEED certifiable

"The BRA Board unanimously approved new housing for Columbia Point in Dorchester. The University Place Residences located at 140-150 Mt Vernon Street will replace a surface parking lot with a 6-story mixed use building, activating the northern area of Columbia Point.

The University Place Residences will include 184 rental units with 24 affordable housing units that are affordable to 70% of the Area Median Income. The $60 million project includes below grade parking for up to 76 vehicles, a 7 vehicle surface parking lot, and 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail.

The approved project is consistent with the vision outlined in the 2011 Columbia Point Master Plan that identifies the northern area of Columbia Point as a gateway mixed use district, appropriate for growth and density. University Place Residences is the first new development on the east side of Mount Vernon Street following the completion of the Columbia Point Master Plan.

University Place Residences creates 200 construction jobs. The development team includes developer Corcoran Jennison Companies and architect Dimella Shaffer."

From: http://www.bostonredevelopmentautho...ino-announces-new-projects-moving-forward-13/
 
Dorchester as a Real Estate investment.

Can somebody give me a summary of Dorchester community and good areas to invest in. Or does Dorchester just have no Hope.

**Orange Line Access (Seems like it has good accessibility)
 
No hope eh? I'm willing to bet 119,000 of the 120,000 residents making up DOT might beg to differ. Follow the clusters around the *Red* Line, and you will find good housing stock and relative affordability. Lower Mills, Neponset, Jones Hill, Savin Hill, Polish Triangle, all good areas. Ashmont Hill, Wellesley Park, Savin Hill OTB; very likely you can't afford it.
 
Rifleman, did you just collect a windfall inheritance? On the prowl for investments?
 
Dorchester gets a bad rap. It really is not all that bad - Mattapan is a different story
 
Asking that question is like asking "is all of cambridge doomed?" or "is somerville and medford doomed"

It's a huge area and the story is completely different from place to place.

Parts abutting Southie are gentrifying rapidly.

Parts around the Neponset (lower mills, et. al.) never were that bad and may as well be part of Milton
 
Yeah as a rule of thumb "coastal" Dorchester is pretty nice. Once you cross the redline heading west it starts to disintegrate. Dorchester District on Washington Street is kind of a hellhole. But Melville Avenue, for example, is directly east of it and has great, great homes.

Carruth Street and the general area is very nice too.

It's too big of a place to stereotype, even though everyone does.
 
The problem is that there's a lot of gang violence and things that go with it...much more than Cambridge...and much more than somerville and Medford
 
It's too big of a place to stereotype, even though everyone does.
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Right - Bay Village, Beacon Hill, the South End, and Back Bay, are considered distinct "neigborhoods" of Boston. Yet Dorchester, for all of its size, gets lumped together.

You could fit Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Downtown, the North/South/West Ends, Back Bay, Fenway, Southie, before you ran out of space in Dorchester.
 
FortPointGuy said:
Yeah as a rule of thumb "coastal" Dorchester is pretty nice. Once you cross the redline heading west it starts to disintegrate. Dorchester District on Washington Street is kind of a hellhole. But Melville Avenue, for example, is directly east of it and has great, great homes.

Carruth Street and the general area is very nice too.

It's too big of a place to stereotype, even though everyone does.
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It's funny. Tell people I live in Savin Hill, no one bats an eye...tell someone I live in Dorchester and everyone loses their minds.

Your assessment is pretty reasonable south of Field's corner - but I'd fine tune it like this for good areas north of there:
-Polish triangle area is great and on the up, pretty much Southie there.
-Jones Hill is surprisingly very nice, but too close to Uphams' corner for my liking. It's gentrifying for sure though.
-Savin hill OTB is $$$
-the rest of Savin hill is also nice
-Field's Corner is rough.

South of Field's is fine to the east of Dot ave, although the area around Ashmont is busy. Once you cross Gallivan it's nice on both sides.

Not too much construction going on, lots of renovation work though, small scale type of things
 
My suggestion, for anyone that has a car, is to just drive around Dorchester neighborhoods. Make an afternoon of it, and I think anyone from this forum would be able to identify the good parts and bad parts with relative ease.

When I drive around when I'm working in the area, I lose track of all the different types of neighborhoods.
 
DominusNovus said:
My suggestion, for anyone that has a car, is to just drive around Dorchester neighborhoods.
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I recommend doing this tour by bicycle instead -- you see a lot more, and at finer grain, if you're moving more slowly and not encased in glass and steel. Plus you can easily stop wherever you want to walk around.
 
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