According to the Boston Globe, “a massive complex of apartments and condos on the site of the Stop & Shop off Everett Street near the Massachusetts Turnpike, won approval from the Boston Planning & Development Agency board despite concerns from some neighbors and elected officials that it would provide too little affordable housing
The 1.2 million-square-foot complex on 10.6 acres will have four buildings roughly the scale of the New Balance headquarters complex next door. It will include a new supermarket, office building, street-level retail, and up to 868 apartments and condos, adding to the mini-city developing along that corridor of Allston and neighboring Brighton.”
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Wonderful news that 868 individuals or families will be able to find an new home. Also puts the Northland project in perspective since both are similar in total square footage and units but Northland’s property is nearly 2 and a half times as large.
It was a mistake in my view to not get the affordable housing on the site built earlier, but overall, it does dovetail with the New Balance site next door and the new commuter rail station. I was wondering when this would happen. New Balance paid for a modern commuter rail station, built up amenities for the residents and office tenants. And the old Stop and Shop used up a LOT of land.
Project like these will continue to put eventual pressure to modernize the commuter rail. Just hope it happens in my lifetime…
How lovely that the political process in Boston can get something done in 2 years. Riverside started in 2005. Austin street in 2006. Maybe we need to take the special permit and zoning away from, oh never mind.
Riverside was approved in 2012. No fault of the City for the failure to move that approved project forward.Don’t want anyone to think that the Allston project is without controversy: https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2019/12/13/allston-yards-project-gets-city-ok-amid.html
Amy, yes Riverside was approved in2012 with so many land mines and as a non economically viable development that it was never built. While factually true that the special permit was approved in 2012, it took 7 years of negotiations to get there. As chair of the Economic Development Commission , we voted and asked the aldermen to look forward and create a mixed use zone so that a developer would know what they could build by right, that they could build according to the comprehensive plan voted 23 to 1 by the board of aldermen. That never happened. So here we are.
@jack: you don’t get to change the facts. The developer was unable to pay for the garage. They said they could but in the end they couldn’t. It’s not the city’s responsibility to aid s developer in their project. That’s the whole point of a special permit. If the developer is unable to meet the requirements to ir conditions laid out by the city, they are free to walk away and allow a developer who is able to come forward.