Roslindale Infill and Small Developments

DwnTwnr said:
Happening: https://www.bostonplans.org/planning/planning-initiatives/roslindale-square
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Rezoning in the Square is happening, and the process should lead to greater density as of right. But the other part of @bakgwailo's comment about linkage funding for an OLX+1 is not something anybody is talking about, so far as I know. I'd love for that to be the case, and the city has officially articulated a goal for bringing the Orange Line to Rozzie Square, but so far there is no deep converstaion happening.
 
Any updates or details on Squares and Streets in Rozzie? The public meeting was recently, I think.
 

FinanceBoston Arranges $16M in Construction Financing for the Development of 49 Luxury Apartments in Roslindale​

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“FinanceBoston has arranged $16,000,000 in financing through North Shore Bank for the construction of a new luxury apartment project approved for 375 Cummins Highway in Roslindale. Plans for the site call for 49 apartments along with a gym, and a common/meeting room where residents could gather or work remotely.”

https://www.bldup.com/posts/finance...lopment-of-49-luxury-apartments-in-roslindale
 
stick n move said:

FinanceBoston Arranges $16M in Construction Financing for the Development of 49 Luxury Apartments in Roslindale​

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“FinanceBoston has arranged $16,000,000 in financing through North Shore Bank for the construction of a new luxury apartment project approved for 375 Cummins Highway in Roslindale. Plans for the site call for 49 apartments along with a gym, and a common/meeting room where residents could gather or work remotely.”

https://www.bldup.com/posts/finance...lopment-of-49-luxury-apartments-in-roslindale
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Nice. This is one of the worst intersections in Boston but glad to see it getting some streetwall infill and glad this isn’t set back.
 
Conceptually I like it, but the tree people in East Roslindale are going to fight this without a doubt. 375 Cummins is packed with trees, and also across the street from a cemetery. That's probably a second plank on the NIMBY platform -- disrupts the bucolic nature of the Rozzie funeral district.
 

N6 Properties Breaks Ground on Latest Boston Community​

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“Boston developer Diarmaid McGregor, principal of N6 Properties, recently announced the start of work at 375 Cummins Highway on a 49-unit apartment building in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston. The project represents the first ground-up venture McGregor and company have undertaken since forming N6 Properties in 2023.

The nearly 50,000 square-foot 375 Cummins Highway will host 49 modern residential units with parking for up to 44 vehicles……”

https://www.bldup.com/posts/n6-properties-breaks-ground-on-latest-boston-community
 
The East Rozzy tree huggers are going to have a fit, but this is exactly what needs to happen over in that area. There are lots of places to build at a more substantial level than elsewhere in Roslindale and to be quite frank, the area needs something more than two strip malls and a half dozen cemeteries. Introduce some dense housing (which will help the strip malls), leverage the accessibility of both Franklin Park and the Boston Nature Center, and for goodness sake, increase the frequency of both the 14 and 30 bus routes, and you'll start to have a much stronger neighborhood.
 
HenryAlan said:
The East Rozzy tree huggers are going to have a fit, but this is exactly what needs to happen over in that area. There are lots of places to build at a more substantial level than elsewhere in Roslindale and to be quite frank, the area needs something more than two strip malls and a half dozen cemeteries. Introduce some dense housing (which will help the strip malls), leverage the accessibility of both Franklin Park and the Boston Nature Center, and for goodness sake, increase the frequency of both the 14 and 30 bus routes, and you'll start to have a much stronger neighborhood.
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Get rid of some of the cemeteries
 
I am a fan of all three of these. Good density exactly where needed. We need so many more, just like these.

The only projects I am aware of that we can look forward to after these three are the one between St. Nectarios and the Belgrade project pictured above, and the development that will replace the building where Bob's Pita is.

Also, for locals, Roslindale Cannabis Co. is finally open. I spoke in support of this at a community meeting back in 2018, I think it was. Between reactionary neighbors and insane city and state red tape, im amazed Rick and Mitch could see this thru 6 more years of nonsense, but it's a nice shop and I'm glad it's here. And hoping Henry's comes back soon.
 
Not sure if you’d call this massing or just “architecture”, but a motif / style that I detest and that has characterized about 90% of large blocky buildings in Boston over the last fifteen years is this stupid and cheap way of making the cornice and shape of the buildings have these screamingly fake looking “towers” on the sides. It’s clearly a ploy to “break up the massing” but there’s something just unbelievably cheap and phony about this in every instance I’ve seen. This one building here manages to break up the massing and have contour to the cornice or roofline or whatever in a way that (so far at least) looks really good to my eye. I think what bugs me about most examples is that they so clearly are using texture simply for its own sake rather than something that looks good. This building’s shape manages to look natural in a way that others of its size don’t. I’d be curious about input from those who can describe the aesthetic effect. Pick any large building in Everett or the new waterfront disasters near maverick in Eastie for an example of what looks tacky and fake in the way I describe.

Edit - the quote function won’t work for some reason but pic is from a few posts above, by @mssrro

3992-3996 Washington Street (18 condos + ground floor commercial)

 
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