Three development teams have filed paperwork with the Boston Redevelopment Authority to begin the community process for building new projects in the city’s South End, Allston and Kenmore Square neighborhoods.
Just south of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross at 600 Harrison Ave., New Atlantic Development hopes to build a mixed-use residential building on what is now a surface parking lot owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and St. Helena’s House.
The 193,300-square-foot property would include 160 apartments, 3,600 square feet of retail space and an undisclosed number of underground parking spaces. The company’s letter of intent to file plans with the BRA indicates the retail space could house a restaurant, café or "other community destination," according to the letter from New Atlantic President Peter Roth.
The South End project will require a large project review as part of the city’s Article 80 public review process, and, as currently planned, the developer will need relief form the city’s zoning limitations on construction in that area.
Across town in Kenmore Square, Delaware-based Kenmore Hotel LLC, which owns Hotel Commonwealth, plans to add 96 new guest rooms, event space and parking on a surface parking lot at the rear of the hotel at the corner of Newbury and Kenmore streets overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike. The new building will total 134,000 square feet and require large project review by the BRA.
Lastly, Waypoint Cos., with offices on Newbury Street, has ambitions to construct an 80-unit apartment building at 61-83 Braintree St. in Allston. The building will be about 93,000 square feet, icluding 6,000 square feet of commercial space and 68 parking spaces within the property. The unit mix will be mostly studios and one-bedroom units but will also house some two- and three-bedroom apartments. Currently zoned industrial, the project site will require various varianes from the neighborhood’s current zoning. The .71-acre lot contains two existing buildings that would need to be razed and is adjacent to the Mass Pike. This project will also require large project review.
