BRA OKs Apartment Tower Near TD Garden
The new 38-story building will offer studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, with a nearby retail element.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority has given the go-ahead for a developer to construct a new 38-story apartment and retail tower near the TD Garden. The board voted unanimously on Feb. 14 to approve the AvalonBay Communities Inc. project—Nashua Street Residences—which features 503 residential units ranging from studio to three-bedroom apartments and a two-story “retail arcade” that connects to TD Garden and North Station. In 2006, the developer received BRA approval to construct a building with 363 units—a mix of condominiums and apartments. But economic conditions had put the project on hold until recently. The latest proposal was filed in November. Proponents of the project said at the Feb. 14 BRA meeting that they had met with several …
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Plenty O'Toole
11:56 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Actually Dan, it will be a 38-story monstrosity, another tower detracting from the skyline instead of enhancing it. There was actually a time when the effects of such buildings on the existing skyline aesthetic were taken into consideration but that was before bank bailouts, union-vote-buying-via-stimulus-funding and, of course, prior to the BRA. Whats wrong with the space being converted to … more ›