East Boston Infill and Small Developments

SPRA for 9 McKay Place: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/y7mp1ssyg3hocye2sow5xhibo0r7fiep

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Looks like this project has come to life again. As you can see we have some new windows. Anyone know is this is still planed to be a Loftel Hotel? I'm surprised they haven't converted it lab/life science.
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Not sure about branding, but it is still planned as a hotel from what I've heard. My company owns several properties around there, and that's still the word from the construction workers, though they might not know if something has changed.
 
32-unit apartment building approved for Jeffries Point

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The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to replace a parking lot at 279 Maverick St. in East Boston with a five-story, 32-unit apartment building.

MG2 Group's plans, approved by the BPDA in May, include five units to be rented to people making no more than 70% of the Boston area median income. Apartments will range from studios to 3-bedroom units.

The building will have a garage with room for 18 cars, using a "stacker" system, as well as four street-level spaces.

https://www.universalhub.com/2022/32-unit-apartment-building-approved-jeffries-point
 
Was 279 Maverick where a former used car salesman used to be? That spot of land has been vacant for years! o_O
 
41 residential units across two bdlgs proposed for Orient Heights:

 
What ever happened to that new East Boston police station?
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It’s sitting there quietly behind a fence. The lights are on, but nobody’s writing arrest reports.

The $30 million East Boston Police Station, the first brand-new city cop house commissioned in a decade, still sits empty nearly a year and a half after it was originally supposed to be finished. Everything from the soil underneath, the fire-safety systems inside and the trucks for the nearby fish processing company seem to get in its way.

The project, according to the city, isn’t really over-budget; the initial announcement in 2019 was for $30 million, but the contract was for just a bit over $26 million, and documents obtained via records request show that rising less than a million dollars, not a big percent increase for this type of project.

The problem’s less money than it is time. The most recent change order, from June 2022, lists the “final completion” date as Nov. 16, 2021 — yes, seven months to the order’s past — though it extends the pact with J&J Contractors to Nov. 15, 2022. The original date for final completion was Sept. 13. 2021.


For now, the cops of the A-7 precinct continue to work in the decrepit old station on the other side of Eastie near Maverick Square — though the city told the Herald to expect an opening for the new one at 300 E. Eagle St. “in the coming weeks.”

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/0...d-to-that-new-east-boston-police-station/amp/
 
What ever happened to that new East Boston police station?
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It’s sitting there quietly behind a fence. The lights are on, but nobody’s writing arrest reports.

The $30 million East Boston Police Station, the first brand-new city cop house commissioned in a decade, still sits empty nearly a year and a half after it was originally supposed to be finished. Everything from the soil underneath, the fire-safety systems inside and the trucks for the nearby fish processing company seem to get in its way.

The project, according to the city, isn’t really over-budget; the initial announcement in 2019 was for $30 million, but the contract was for just a bit over $26 million, and documents obtained via records request show that rising less than a million dollars, not a big percent increase for this type of project.

The problem’s less money than it is time. The most recent change order, from June 2022, lists the “final completion” date as Nov. 16, 2021 — yes, seven months to the order’s past — though it extends the pact with J&J Contractors to Nov. 15, 2022. The original date for final completion was Sept. 13. 2021.


For now, the cops of the A-7 precinct continue to work in the decrepit old station on the other side of Eastie near Maverick Square — though the city told the Herald to expect an opening for the new one at 300 E. Eagle St. “in the coming weeks.”

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/0...d-to-that-new-east-boston-police-station/amp/
Is that on the site of the old MBTA trackless trolley carbarn?
 


New year, another shameful day at the Boston ZBA. Two four-story developments rejected as out of scale with their three-story abutters. One was actually approved, but not by a supermajority as required. For the political process and planning crowd, the city is trying that with PLAN: East Boston to reform East Boston's underlying zoning to make these appeals less likely. Unfortunately, they are getting exactly nowhere and the BPDA had to pause those planning sessions after one of their staffers was threatened. Meanwhile, prices go up and the crisis gets worse. Rinse repeat.
 


New year, another shameful day at the Boston ZBA. Two four-story developments rejected as out of scale with their three-story abutters. One was actually approved, but not by a supermajority as required. For the political process and planning crowd, the city is trying that with PLAN: East Boston to reform East Boston's underlying zoning to make these appeals less likely. Unfortunately, they are getting exactly nowhere and the BPDA had to pause those planning sessions after one of their staffers was threatened. Meanwhile, prices go up and the crisis gets worse. Rinse repeat.
So you can just threaten someone and then….get exactly what you want.
 


New year, another shameful day at the Boston ZBA. Two four-story developments rejected as out of scale with their three-story abutters. One was actually approved, but not by a supermajority as required. For the political process and planning crowd, the city is trying that with PLAN: East Boston to reform East Boston's underlying zoning to make these appeals less likely. Unfortunately, they are getting exactly nowhere and the BPDA had to pause those planning sessions after one of their staffers was threatened. Meanwhile, prices go up and the crisis gets worse. Rinse repeat.
Hansy Better Barraza is an enormous NIMBY and taking up Araujo's torch proudly it seems.
 
Is that on the site of the old MBTA trackless trolley carbarn?
Its at the corner of Condor and East Eagle streets. Historically the lot looks like industrial only, no trolley. This is the same site that Eversource has been trying to get a substation built even though it's a flood zone.
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