Long dormant West Roxbury apartment project revived, now with far less parking
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“The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday re-approved plans for construction of
an 18-unit apartment building on a vacant triangle where a Texaco station used to sit at the intersection of
Belgrade Avenue and Beech Street in West Roxbury.
Both the BPDA and the zoning board approved the proposal in 2016, but back in those days, boards were more likely to require lots of parking, especially in leafy areas such as West Roxbury, and so approved 33 parking spaces in an underground garage.
And then, nothing much happened. The remains of the gas station were torn down and a fence erected around the 10,221-square-foot parcel but no actual construction began. Last fall, developer John Douros, who had worked at the gas station as a teenager, told the BPDA he was finally ready to actually begin work. The board approved his request to reduce the number of spaces to 18, now that the agency has seen the virtue of trying to discourage parking, especially for parcels on or near several bus routes and a short walk from a commuter-rail station.”
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/long-dormant-west-roxbury-apartment-project
