164 new housing units coming to three Boston,Ma neighborhoods: Massachusetts Homebuyers Homeownership

 The Boston Planning & Development Agency approved projects in the Allston, Dorchester and South End Neighborhoods. In total, these projects will create one hundred and sixty four residential units, twenty nine of which will be income restricted.  90 Braintree St., Allston Photo Credit: Boston Planning & Development Agency In Allston, the BPDA approved a new artist live work space at 90 Braintree St. The project supports Allston’s artist community by creating new housing, as well as new income restricted artist live work space.

 The project will include a six story building with one hundred and eleven new rental units. Twenty two units will be income restricted and five will be designated as artist live work space. The units will be a combination of studios, one bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom units.  The main floor of the building will include an artist working space. There will be garage parking for vehicles, as well as onsite bicycle spaces.  Project developers will contribute five hundred thousand dollars to the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation to help fund twenty affordable housing units on Hano Street long with additional community benefits, including seventy five thousand dollars for bike lane improvements as part of the Allston Brighton Mobility Plan, forty nine thousand dollars toward a new Bluebikes station and one hundred eleven thousand dollars for improvements at nearby Penniman Park.

 1154-1156 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester Photo Credit: Boston Planning & Development Agency Twenty homeownership units are coming to 1154-1156 Dorchester Ave. with three units designated as income restricted. The project will include the construction of an addition onto an existing building to create a transit oriented, five story building. The housing units will be a mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments and will include onsite bike parking. The ground floor of the building will include commercial, office and community space.  As part of the project, the developer will widen a portion of the sidewalk on Dorchester Avenue, design and install an ADA-accessible crosswalk across Dorchester Avenue at Greenmount Street and Dewar Street and contribute five thousand five hundred dollars to the city’s Bluebikes program.  

  1395 Washington St., South End Photo Credit: Boston Planning & Development Agency In Boston’s South End, a new project at 1395 Washington St. will bring thirty three homeownership units, four of which will be designated income restricted. The existing building on the property will be demolished and replaced with a six story building that will also include commercial retail space. The housing units will be a mix of studios and one bedroom units and will also include thirty four bike parking spaces.  The developer will also contribute twenty five thousand dollars toward open space improvements in the South End and widening the sidewalk in front of the project site.

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