Roxbury Infill and Small Developments

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BPDA seeks developer to build housing on Roxbury parking lots​

A look at the five Boston Water and Sewer Commission lots that the BPDA wants to see redeveloped into affordable housing.

“The Boston Planning and Development Agency is seeking proposals from developers to build affordable housing on more than four acres of Boston Water and Sewer Commission land — mostly parking lots — in Roxbury.

The agency published a request for proposals for the project last month and will hold a pre-proposal conference for interested developers on Wednesday. Bids are due Feb. 28.

The parcels are located off the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. The BPDA is particularly interested in income-restricted housing for families and seniors at the site, including for-sale condos. The agency is encouraging bidders to consider helping prospective homeowners through a “rent-to-own” model or other financing tools.

Developers are being asked to allot a third of units to residents earning up to 50% of the area median income; another third to residents earning 51% to 70% of the area median income; and the final third to those earning above 70% of that figure. In 2023, the area median income was $118,800 for a two-person household in Boston and $148,400 for a four-person household.

The Wu administration is offering to make federal American Rescue Plan Act funding available to the winning bidder. The ARPA funds must be awarded to specific projects this year.

The property is located near several other projects on public land that the city has sought to redevelop in Nubian Square, including Boston developer Richard Taylor’s future Nubian Ascends mixed-use project and Urbanica Inc. and the NHP Foundation’s NUBA Residences just across Melnea Cass.

The BPDA began meeting with community members about redeveloping the BWSC parking lots in early 2023.”

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/...n-affordable-housing-roxbury-parking-lot.html

 

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BPDA seeks developer to build housing on Roxbury parking lots​

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A look at the five Boston Water and Sewer Commission lots that the BPDA wants to see redeveloped into affordable housing.

“The Boston Planning and Development Agency is seeking proposals from developers to build affordable housing on more than four acres of Boston Water and Sewer Commission land — mostly parking lots — in Roxbury.

The agency published a request for proposals for the project last month and will hold a pre-proposal conference for interested developers on Wednesday. Bids are due Feb. 28.

The parcels are located off the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. The BPDA is particularly interested in income-restricted housing for families and seniors at the site, including for-sale condos. The agency is encouraging bidders to consider helping prospective homeowners through a “rent-to-own” model or other financing tools.

Developers are being asked to allot a third of units to residents earning up to 50% of the area median income; another third to residents earning 51% to 70% of the area median income; and the final third to those earning above 70% of that figure. In 2023, the area median income was $118,800 for a two-person household in Boston and $148,400 for a four-person household.

The Wu administration is offering to make federal American Rescue Plan Act funding available to the winning bidder. The ARPA funds must be awarded to specific projects this year.

The property is located near several other projects on public land that the city has sought to redevelop in Nubian Square, including Boston developer Richard Taylor’s future Nubian Ascends mixed-use project and Urbanica Inc. and the NHP Foundation’s NUBA Residences just across Melnea Cass.

The BPDA began meeting with community members about redeveloping the BWSC parking lots in early 2023.”

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/...n-affordable-housing-roxbury-parking-lot.html

Good. Can they get rid of the stupid fucking lawn that’s on Melnea Cass, fenced off and doing absolutely nothing other than making the bike lane ROW needlessly thin? That should be shaved off and given to DCR

 

[BronsonShore]

What a massively important development. This needs its own thread.

 

[Suffolk 83]

What a massively important development. This needs its own thread.

This and the south end college I forget its name moving across the street it could really tie the room together nicely. This area is not very friendly as of now

 

[BronsonShore]

This and the south end college I forget its name moving across the street it could really tie the room together nicely. This area is not very friendly as of now

I have a theory that urban fabric of Roxbury being destroyed and hollowed out (and we all know why it was Roxbury that got this treatment) is a major contributor to the misperception among many that Boston isn't a massive, global city. Thanks to the urban planning disasters of the past, crossing Mass Ave first, then Melnea Cass, feels like entering the hinterlands. But, of course, it isn't the hinterlands: Roxbury is the geographic center of the city! Boston would feel much bigger if there was a continuous urban fabric that stretched from the South End to JP.

 

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I have a theory that urban fabric of Roxbury being destroyed and hollowed out (and we all know why it was Roxbury that got this treatment) is a major contributor to the misperception among many that Boston isn't a massive, global city. Thanks to the urban planning disasters of the past, crossing Mass Ave first, then Melnea Cass, feels like entering the hinterlands. But, of course, it isn't the hinterlands: Roxbury is the geographic center of the city! Boston would feel much bigger if there was a continuous urban fabric that stretched from the South End to JP.

I’m really hoping that eventually we could also have townhouses on mass ave continuing on from BMC to Columbia rd in Dorchester. The urban form is incredible down mass ave and then you hit BMC and it just drops off the face of the earth until the triple deckers pick up when you hit Columbia rd. That wasteland really acts like a moat between the South end and Dorchester.

 

[Suffolk 83]

I have a theory that urban fabric of Roxbury being destroyed and hollowed out (and we all know why it was Roxbury that got this treatment) is a major contributor to the misperception among many that Boston isn't a massive, global city. Thanks to the urban planning disasters of the past, crossing Mass Ave first, then Melnea Cass, feels like entering the hinterlands. But, of course, it isn't the hinterlands: Roxbury is the geographic center of the city! Boston would feel much bigger if there was a continuous urban fabric that stretched from the South End to JP.

I think you could make a case for this sure, but also Boston is just small physically. I was in London in the fall and it gives some perspective on what a truly large metropolitan city feels like, it feels very big!

 

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This is a big deal. I am, however, concerned that the City is continuing to dump low income housing in Lower Roxbury, much as it did in the 50s and 60s. There's minimal market rate housing this side of Northampton St (esp south of Tremont) and a number of housing projects. Smart thing to do, imho, would be to sell the land for maximum value to a developer and use the funds to build affordable housing in exclusive nhoods. This would help support commerce on the streets nearby, which are retail poor, integrate the neighborhood, and give funds for other subsidized projects in the works...

 

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This is a big deal. I am, however, concerned that the City is continuing to dump low income housing in Lower Roxbury, much as it did in the 50s and 60s. There's minimal market rate housing this side of Northampton St (esp south of Tremont) and a number of housing projects. Smart thing to do, imho, would be to sell the land for maximum value to a developer and use the funds to build affordable housing in exclusive nhoods. This would help support commerce on the streets nearby, which are retail poor, integrate the neighborhood, and give funds for other subsidized projects in the works...

Whenever I look at the 2 story wood buildings in Roxbury that replaced the projects I always wonder how long it will be until they go back and replace them with mixed income much denser housing like were seeing in Charlestown. At the time they were built it was an upgrade over the projects, but today its pretty outdated to still concentrate poverty in entire developments that are low density and have no retail. Such a waste of prime real estate to have these 2 story buildings in major centers of the city.

 

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Whenever I look at the 2 story wood buildings in Roxbury that replaced the projects I always wonder how long it will be until they go back and replace them with mixed income much denser housing like were seeing in Charlestown. At the time they were built it was an upgrade over the projects, but today its pretty outdated to still concentrate poverty in entire developments that are low density and have no retail. Such a waste of prime real estate to have these 2 story buildings in major centers of the city.

Madison Park Village is remarkably nice compared with much of the neighboring ones. I'm also not convinced that the two and half story townhomes are _that_ much less dense than the surrounds.

 

[Jahvon09]

BPDA seeks developer to build housing on Roxbury parking lots​

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A look at the five Boston Water and Sewer Commission lots that the BPDA wants to see redeveloped into affordable housing.

“The Boston Planning and Development Agency is seeking proposals from developers to build affordable housing on more than four acres of Boston Water and Sewer Commission land — mostly parking lots — in Roxbury.

The agency published a request for proposals for the project last month and will hold a pre-proposal conference for interested developers on Wednesday. Bids are due Feb. 28.

The parcels are located off the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. The BPDA is particularly interested in income-restricted housing for families and seniors at the site, including for-sale condos. The agency is encouraging bidders to consider helping prospective homeowners through a “rent-to-own” model or other financing tools.

Developers are being asked to allot a third of units to residents earning up to 50% of the area median income; another third to residents earning 51% to 70% of the area median income; and the final third to those earning above 70% of that figure. In 2023, the area median income was $118,800 for a two-person household in Boston and $148,400 for a four-person household.

The Wu administration is offering to make federal American Rescue Plan Act funding available to the winning bidder. The ARPA funds must be awarded to specific projects this year.

The property is located near several other projects on public land that the city has sought to redevelop in Nubian Square, including Boston developer Richard Taylor’s future Nubian Ascends mixed-use project and Urbanica Inc. and the NHP Foundation’s NUBA Residences just across Melnea Cass.

The BPDA began meeting with community members about redeveloping the BWSC parking lots in early 2023.”

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/...n-affordable-housing-roxbury-parking-lot.html

Some frigging pop-up is blocking the page, trying to make people subscribe & pay to be able to read it!!!! I'm not doing it!!!

 

[DZH22]

3/3 From the Pru.

IMG_0291 by David Z, on Flickr

 

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“Cruz Cos. held a ribbon-cutting on Thursday for its Michael E. Haynes Arms building, an 85K SF mixed-use building that includes 55 units. The project is over 80% affordable. The ground floor of the project will be the new headquarters of the Cruz Cos., which will house all of its development, construction, management and relocation entities.”

https://www.bisnow.com/boston/news/deal-sheet/this-weeks-boston-deal-sheet-123171

 

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Proposed marijuana grow factory in Newmarket Square wins approval to add retail shop - and cafe, which will only sell coffee and pastries​

By adamg on Wed, 03/13/2024 - 10:53am

Updated rendering showing cafe.

“The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Mario Signore to change his proposed three-story cannabis factory at 100 Hampden St. to include a ground-floor marijuana store and a separate cafe.
Signore's Green Line Boston Craft Cannabis had originally planned to use all three floors of the building for cultivation and product manufacturing, but decided to swap in retail for the ground floor because of an ongoing contraction in the Massachusetts marijuana production industry, his attorney, Nick Zozula, told the board.
Zozula said the new cafe would only served baked goods, rather than goods to get customers baked, and that Signore is looking for a Roxbury entrepreneur to run it. It would have a separate entrance from the proposed marijuana retail shop next door, he said.
The board approved the changes under a provision for minor amendments to previously approved projects, because the overall building size and 23 parking spaces were unchanged from the plans earlier approved by the board and the BPDA.”

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/proposed-marijuana-grow-factor-newmarket-square

 

[BronsonShore]

“Cruz Cos. held a ribbon-cutting on Thursday for its Michael E. Haynes Arms building, an 85K SF mixed-use building that includes 55 units. The project is over 80% affordable. The ground floor of the project will be the new headquarters of the Cruz Cos., which will house all of its development, construction, management and relocation entities.”

https://www.bisnow.com/boston/news/deal-sheet/this-weeks-boston-deal-sheet-123171

Hot damn! While this is not cutting edge aesthetically (and many people will disapprove of it on that basis alone) this building does a fantastic job of adhering to the most important tried and true urbanist principles. Please give Cruz development rights up and down Columbus, Washington, Dot Ave, and every other underdeveloped avenues in the city.

Seriously, why is it so hard just to get this built, over and over again, in every neighborhood?

 

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Imo its second phase is even better and should be coming soon.

 

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I wish it didn't have the stripe at each floor.

 

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It looks green in the render but is grey in real life.

 

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-Approved

75-81 Dudley Street​

“The 75 Dudley Street Homeownership project is a four-story affordable condominium development with 15 units and a bike storage room that sits at the highly visible corner of Dudley Street and Guild Row. The Proposed Project will not contain designated parking on site.”

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/75-81-dudley-street

 

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-Approved

75-81 Dudley Street​

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“The 75 Dudley Street Homeownership project is a four-story affordable condominium development with 15 units and a bike storage room that sits at the highly visible corner of Dudley Street and Guild Row. The Proposed Project will not contain designated parking on site.”

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/75-81-dudley-street

Little grass strip will be piss-dead dirt in one week.