South Boston Infill and Small Developments

Re: South Boston Development

The mid-intersection headhouse used to be the main bus depot. The anticipated replacement of the bridge in 2000 and the addition of HC entrances/elevator made the southeasterly corner bus loading area much more feasible with the mid-intersection construction becoming an emergency egress.

The crime at this intersection now, as opposed to all the crime at Triple O's in the past, is the northwesterly corner which is vacant, was once built on, but probably never be built on owing to the MBTA's training facility underneath. Can't let any terrorist construction workers know about the training facility under a valuable piece of real estate. The T is flush with cash anyway.

Will Stephanie's sell scratchies? It can go 24/7.
 
Re: South Boston Development

So, two years ago a proposal for veterans housing was approved for the old D-6 police station on D Street in South Boston.

Walking by today, it seems nothing has changed?

I couldn't find any updates online. Anyone?



Veterans housing wins city bid for old police station
By Cara Bayles, Boston.com

City-owned property on D Street that's currently home to the old South Boston Police Station will be converted into 24 rental units of affordable housing for veterans called Patriot Homes. The decision from the Public Facilities Commission comes after months of anticipation from the two proposals vying for the land.
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Re: South Boston Development

PNF posted for the 140' ft. Hotel near Broadway Station at 6 West Broadway

http://www.bostonredevelopmentautho...que Hotel/South Boston Boutique Hotel_PNF.pdf

Some details/clarification

Sun Condos LLC (the “Proponent”) is submitting, this Project Notification Form (“PNF”) for the South Boston Hotel Project in accordance with the Article 80B Large Project Review requirements of the Boston Zoning Code (“Code”). The Project involves development for a new 156± room hotel (approximately 87,000 gross square feet in accordance with the Code) with separate tenant-leased restaurant and retail space on the ground floor, second-level terrace, rooftop bar and exterior pool deck/outdoor lounge, hotel fitness center, meeting rooms, and conference rooms and a screening room all at the project site located at the intersection of Broadway and Dorchester Avenue in the South Boston neighborhood (“Proposed Project”)
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The proposed South Boston Hotel is a fourteen-story building incorporating a total of 156± hotel rooms. In addition to the guestroom floors, the building includes tenant-operated restaurant spaces, meeting rooms, screening room, outdoor terrace, and rooftop pool and lounge. Located between Broadway and 2nd Street, with its main facade along Dorchester Avenue facing the Broadway Bridge, the South Boston Hotel’s massing negotiates between the small-scale buildings of South Boston and the larger urban context of the financial district
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I'm gonna be lazy and let someone else pull out the renders...
 
Re: South Boston Development

Hutchison said:
PNF posted for the 140' ft. Hotel near Broadway Station at 6 West Broadway

http://www.bostonredevelopmentautho...que Hotel/South Boston Boutique Hotel_PNF.pdf

Some details/clarification





I'm gonna be lazy and let someone else pull out the renders...
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Here's the render with the most complete view of the hotel:

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Re: South Boston Development

Love him or hate him (guess which way I feel), Tim Pappas has created a neighborhood out of nothing.
 
Re: South Boston Development

JohnAKeith said:
Tim Pappas has created a neighborhood out of nothing.
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That area isn't a neighborhood. It's an unbearably lonely place at the periphery of south boston. The mistake was to make it an exclusive and elitist place, which led to sterility. This hotel won't make things better.

This area, along with much of the western part of southie seems to house a lot of first-time residents of southie, who over pay to live in a neighborhood they think is safe and expensive. They'll eventually realize that they live in speculative real estate developments situated in a tough, industrial neighborhood.
 
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