Keeping a Close Eye On The Harvard Allston Expansion
With the announcement of the construction slowdown of the science complex in Allston, some of us Allston residents realized that there may very well be a large hole in the ground for many more years to come.
Suddenly, we looked around and saw that there were many issues with the Harvard 50 year plan for Allston that the neighborhood needs to keep an eye on. For those that live in Allston / Brighton, or in Cambridge, or in Boston, we need to be more vigilant to prevent our town from becoming nothing more than empty buildings for the next 50 years.
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Charlesview approved
Posted on January 15th, 2010 No commentsAlthough it isn’t all we wanted I’m somewhat glad its done. Let’s demolish some empty buildings! And actually replace them with new buildings!
Charlesview apartments approved
Boston Business Journal - by Mary Moore
The Boston Zoning Commission on Thursday approved a mixed-income development proposed by nonprofit builder The Community Builders and Charlesview Inc., the governing board of the Charlesview Apartments.
The new Charlesview Residences in Allston will includee 240 rental units and 100 owned units.
Also mild kudos to Harvard for coming up with creatives uses for an empty VW dealership… time to go to Play It Again sports for some cheap skates since its BYO-skates.
Also also don’t forget to vote Tuesday.
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Next Charlesview Meeting 9/23
Posted on September 4th, 2009 No commentsFrom Jay Rourke:
On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at 6:00pm the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s will conduct a community meeting, at the Honan Allston Library, 300 North Harvard Street, to discuss the Charlesview Redevelopment/Development Plan for Planned Development Area #74 proposal. The project is undergoing Large Project Review and Planned Development Area Review pursuant to Article 80 of the Boston Zoning Code.
The proposed project will provide a total of two hundred and sixty (260) rental units, inclusive of the two hundred and thirteen (213) replacement units at the existing Charlesview Site, along with an additional forty-seven (47) new rental units, and one hundred (100) new homeownership units.
The Brighton Mills site will have twenty-five (25) individual buildings, including twenty (20) town homes, two (2) row houses, and three (3) mid-rise buildings. Building heights on Brighton Mills site will range from 2.5 stories at the neighborhood edges of Litchfield Street and Holton Street transitioning up to 3.5, 4, 5 and 6 stories for the mid-rise buildings that front Western Avenue. The Telford Street site will have a single building that steps-up from 6 to 8 stories at its uppermost corner.
The proposed project also includes nearly 23,000 square feet of commercial/community space that will be housed in the proposed mid-rise buildings adjacent to the south side of Western Avenue.
The proposed project will include a total of five hundred and twenty-one (521) parking spaces, including one hundred and eleven (111) surface parking spaces and two hundred and sixty (260) spaces in an underground garage on the Brighton Mills site and one hundred and fifty (150) spaces in an underground garage on the Telford Street site.
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The Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home
Posted on March 26th, 2009 No comments
3/24/2009 8:13 PM Open side door at Kmart
On Tuesday night, while walking by the abandoned Kmart (1) on Litchfield street I came upon an open door. Some of the lights were on inside, but there were no sounds of movement or people. With my girlfriend yelling “Oh my God, this how horror movies start!” I snapped a picture and we continued home with our cornopia from Big Daddy’s.
So Harvard can help the neighborhood… by supplying a huge location for squatters displaced by the housing crisis! Maybe they’ll start a fire and the current blight will be replaced by a new uglier blight. We can only hope that if this were to happen no lives would be lost like in Worcester.
(1) http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=42.361549,-71.139269&spn=0.002442,0.005665&t=h&z=18