Fenway Infill and Small Developments

Hi all. I'm new on here thanks to a referral from a friend. I'm more on the development side of things as a real estate attorney and consultant (buildingbos.com) but wanted to pass along my recent post outlining the litany of changes and additions to the Fenway Neighborhood leading up to Opening Day. Please enjoy and I welcome all of your feedback either here, on my blog itself or to my Twitter @berkie1.

www.buildingbos.com


Thanks,
Jonathan
 
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buildingBOS said:
Hi all. I'm new on here thanks to a referral from a friend. I'm more on the development side of things as a real estate attorney and consultant (buildingbos.com) but wanted to pass along my recent post outlining the litany of changes and additions to the Fenway Neighborhood leading up to Opening Day. Please enjoy and I welcome all of your feedback either here, on my blog itself or to my Twitter @berkie1.

www.buildingbos.com


Thanks,
Jonathan
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Fantastic website. One quibble, you give credit to Weiner Ventures for many of the Samuels projects in the Fenway. While Adam Weiner may be an investor in those projects, I doubt anyone would identify him as the developer.
 
gyro said:
Fantastic website. One quibble, you give credit to Weiner Ventures for many of the Samuels projects in the Fenway. While Adam Weiner may be an investor in those projects, I doubt anyone would identify him as the developer.
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Sorry for the confusion. I pulled the photos from Weiner's site so that's why I had only listed them as it was just a source for the photo. I've added Samuels to avoid confusion.
Thanks for the welcome to the site. Hope you guys enjoy the site and feel free to reach out with any any all questions, comments etc.
 
They painted my beloved blue building! Booooooo

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I was walking through the area recently (on my way to get some late night ramen) and it was really striking to see how enclosed the Fenway is becoming. Standing on the bridge over the Muddy at Boylston/Charlesgate/Fenway you can see the area being bounded on Huntington by Grandmarc/Treehouse/West Village, by the LMA buildings to the west, Back Bay to the east, and now by the Boylston buildings on the north. I'm sure the feeling will diminish once the tree cover fills in, but it was impressive to see how much has happened in the are over the past few years. The Fenway always used to seem like the edge of the city to me, nice but underutilized (except by students for sports/as a cut through or runners). Hopefully with the continued development of Huntington/LMA/Boylston it will see some more cleanup and use.
 
weird they repainted the point building when this time next year it will likely be gone.
 
BRA set to approve apartments at Elephant Walk Restaurant site

The Boston Redevelopment Authority is expected to approve a $16 million apartment project in the city’s Audubon Circle neighborhood, near the Kenmore Square-Brookline border.

The developer, 900 Beacon Street Realty Trust, a family company operated by the Yu family of Chestnut Hill, plan to demolish the restaurant and construct a six-story, 38,950-square-foot, mixed-use building with 32 one-bedroom apartments and 4,470 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The proposed project will include 36 parking spaces. Of that number, 30 will be underground. It is unclear if Elephant Walk will continue to operate once the project is complete.
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It'll be sad to see Elephant Walk get demolished, hopefully they come back in the new building!
 
I like that the entire frontage is retail space, but it's a bit weird how they've shunted the apartment entrance off to the side on that little passageway (tunnel almost). I can only assume it'll be gated and well lit, otherwise the residents will be entering their building like rats.
 
The PNF says 32 one bedroom and 6 two bedroom, so 38 units. Not clear from article.
 
Matthew said:
The PNF says 32 one bedroom and 6 two bedroom, so 38 units. Not clear from article.
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At first I only noticed the 32 one bedrooms, and then saw it had 36 parking spaces, so i was like, WTFFF???? Glad to know there are a couple more units, though I still feel like thats too much parking, even if 30 of the spaces are underground.
 
Yeah it's a bit over-parked but remember that geometry is king. They're digging one floor under, and apparently there's room for 30 parking spaces there, plus the 6 behind the building. They're not going to dig another floor just to squeeze two more parking spaces (besides the ones you'd lose for making the ramps go another level) and if they're going to dig at all, they're going to maximize the space they get for the money.

Tinkering around the edges, it seems like they have bike parking somewhere on site already, so I guess they could use some of the vacant spaces for storage bins or something. Or maybe turn the back 6 spaces into a back yard. Not a big deal.
 
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