http://www.mattesonco.com/4755-lagrange
If 533 Washington St. [aka former FELT] gets approved with its 94 units, and this 152 unit puppy squeezes into this development cycle as well, that's another 246 units for an area that already includes:
660 Washington: 420 units
Kensington: 385 units
45 Stuart: 404 units
W Boston condos: 122 units
151 Tremont: 373 units
165 Tremont: 63 units
170 Tremont: 92 units
Millennium Place: 265 units
Ritz Tower condos: 368 units
Would FELT project and 47 LaGrange St. make this the most densely-settled district in New England? You can squeeze all of these into a rectangle that is just .03 square miles that runs from West Street/Tremont, down Tremont, to Stuart, east to Washington, up Washington to West, then down West to close the box. That rectangle would include 2,738 units if FELT project and 47 LaGrange get done. 2,738 units x 90% occupancy (I think that's not overly-optimistic at all for this neighborhood, there'll be some absentee foreign condo owners, but not many, I don't think) x 2 residents per unit is approx. 4,900 residents. In just .03 square miles. Which would be 165,000 residents per sq. mile. Which seems crazy... anyway, I'd love to see the density figure for this census tract, for the 2020 census.
Back to the project... another slanted roof! Hopefully a slew more renderings get released once this goes up on BPDA page; for now this is slim pickings. But still enough to critique, I figure....
If 533 Washington St. [aka former FELT] gets approved with its 94 units, and this 152 unit puppy squeezes into this development cycle as well, that's another 246 units for an area that already includes:
660 Washington: 420 units
Kensington: 385 units
45 Stuart: 404 units
W Boston condos: 122 units
151 Tremont: 373 units
165 Tremont: 63 units
170 Tremont: 92 units
Millennium Place: 265 units
Ritz Tower condos: 368 units
Would FELT project and 47 LaGrange St. make this the most densely-settled district in New England? You can squeeze all of these into a rectangle that is just .03 square miles that runs from West Street/Tremont, down Tremont, to Stuart, east to Washington, up Washington to West, then down West to close the box. That rectangle would include 2,738 units if FELT project and 47 LaGrange get done. 2,738 units x 90% occupancy (I think that's not overly-optimistic at all for this neighborhood, there'll be some absentee foreign condo owners, but not many, I don't think) x 2 residents per unit is approx. 4,900 residents. In just .03 square miles. Which would be 165,000 residents per sq. mile. Which seems crazy... anyway, I'd love to see the density figure for this census tract, for the 2020 census.
Back to the project... another slanted roof! Hopefully a slew more renderings get released once this goes up on BPDA page; for now this is slim pickings. But still enough to critique, I figure....