The most recent BCDC design committee presentation was june 20, 2023 so its not like its stalled, its still moving through the process, just slowly like so many projects do.
Of course checking for any other news on the site you come across the usual bullshit from the nimby neighbors.
Brighton-Brookline Residents Oppose Kimco's Whole Foods Project.
Neighborhood resident comments submitted to Boston Planning & Development Agency show why they oppose Whole Foods Reconstruction project.
“Most of the over 200 neighborhood residents who have submitted comments to the City of Bosotn’s Boston Planning and Development Agency [BPDA]’s website, however, have expressed opposition to Kimco’s proposed Whole Foods Reconstruction luxury apartment project and indicated that the project will harm, not benefit, the neighboring community. One neighborhood resident, for example, argued against the City of Boston approving Kimco’s proposed project in Brighton, by writing the following:
“The construction of a new residential high-rise complex occupying the entire block from
Allston Street to Corey Road will lead to intractable traffic problems. It will be a monstrous problem for the entire area.
“From time to time we already face problems for pedestrians and vehicles. Imagine you have added more businesses, 290-plus apartments, as well as about 100 apartments in a new development [by another real estate developer] across the street from the..school [at 5 Washington Street] on the corner of Washington and Corey Roads.
“In other words, it will add at least 350 vehicles for the new residents of this block, who move
in and out at least twice a day and during peak hours. That's not counting the growing number of cars and trucks at the new Whole Food and CVS….
“Also, consider that 20 and 30 Washington Streets are mostly for elderly and disabled, and
ambulances or fire trucks come and park on Washington Street almost every day. In general, a good residential area consisting of low-income buildings, a…school, a middle-size Whole Food store will be turned into a monster bee hive...And the city council also has an obligation to think about these people.”
-Think of the elderly!!!
And then after the BCDC presentation and the public opposition you get this:
New Design Submitted for Brighton Whole Foods Redevelopment
“A redesigned redevelopment of the Whole Foods Market property in Brighton will add home ownership units and a pocket park on Washington Street, while reducing the total housing component and size of the project.
Developer Kimco Realty of Jericho, New York responded to comments from neighborhood residents and Boston Planning & Development Agency staff by
reducing the 15 Washington St. project to 253,288 square feet, a nearly 30,000-square-foot decrease. Previously the project proposed a floor area ratio of 2.8, which has been reduced to 2.5.
The proposal, originally
submitted in 2018,
has been amended to include 18 condominiums while reducing the total housing units from 270 to 229. All of the project’s 35 affordable units – comprising 15 percent of the housing – will be located on-site.”
https://bankerandtradesman.com/new-design-submitted-for-brighton-whole-foods-redevelopment/
-Its so insane how every single project gets units knocked off for no reason at all other than nimbys show up and bitch about things. This timeline is nuts.
