Mixed-use apartment building proposed for Dorchester Avenue
More housing may be coming to Dorchester Avenue.
In a new small-project filing with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Peregrine Group LLC has proposed a 64-unit mixed-use building with retail space on the ground floor at 1943 Dorchester Avenue in the Ashmont/Peabody Square neighborhood of Dorchester. The current structures on the site are vacant.
The proposal reads:
“As part of the greater Ashmont/Peabody Square revitalization efforts sponsored by St. Marks Area Main Street, the project will incorporate visual and streetscape elements designed to encourage pedestrian flow throughout the residential and commercial components of the development logically connecting the site together with the vibrant retail, restaurant, transit, parking and open space amenities located in the greater neighborhood.”
The project will be geared toward young urban professionals, graduate and medical students, young families and empty nesters. It will be equipped with amenities such as an outdoor/patio space, a fitness/multi‐purpose room, and will have studio, one-bedroom, one-bedroom plus den, and two-bedroom units. Fifty-six of the units are set to be priced at market rate, while eight will be considered affordable. There will also be 24 garage parking spaces.
There have been recent talks of the importance of “transit-oriented development” in the Dorchester area, The Boston Globe pointed out last year.
“This is a huge opportunity,” Richard Taylor, director of the Center for Real Estate at Suffolk University, told the Globe. “You get a lot of ripple effects from this kind of development. It increases residential density, you have more arts and entertainment, and it injects more income to support local retail.”
Mayor Marty Walsh and Governor Charlie Baker have both expressed their support of development near transit stations.
Looking at Dorchester Avenue more specifically, the BRA has been running a neighborhood planning study on a mile-long section of the road near Andrew Square. Though a different section of the road from the 1943 Dorchester Avenue development, the BRA’s emphasis on creating more housing near transportation with the hopes of revitalization in Andrew Square echoes a similar sentiment to this new project proposal.
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