13-story apartment/condo building proposed for Huntington Avenue next to Mission Park

A non-profit radical has projected a 13-story, 111-unit residential gathering connected what is now a parking lot adjacent to the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers, connected Huntington Avenue, conscionable outbound from Brigham Circle.

The BPDA holds a Zoomed nationalist meeting connected the connection by the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Association astatine 6 p.m. connected Monday. The non-profit runs immoderate 1,100 income-restricted apartments successful the Mission Hill area, including the Mission Park development.

The group's connection calls for 55 income-restricted apartments and 55 condos, astir fractional of which would person income restrictions connected purchasers.

The gathering would person a 24-space underground garage.

The filing describes however the gathering volition acceptable successful with the surrounding streets:

A recently imagined sidewalk information takes inspiration from the "Welcome Mat" conception carried retired on Huntington's "Avenue of the Arts" district. An engaging sidewalk, playful hardscape forms, and a lush, vegetative scenery each enactment unneurotic to make an inviting, active, and pedestrian-friendly environment. Benches on the pedestrian portion supply seating opportunities beneath the thoroughfare histrion allée; opportunities for café-style furnishings are provided arsenic well. A fistful of tables and chairs tin beryllium placed wrong the streetscape Parklet, a bump-out protected from Huntington Avenue vehicles and enclosed by plantings. Vegetated areas adhd to the site's quality and allure and cod and cleanable stormwater wrong designed greenish infrastructure planters. The caller streetscape provides a 15-dock Blue Bike station, visitant motorcycle parking racks, and an integrated vehicular drop-off/loading zone.

Accessible by mode of St. Albans Road is simply a woonerf-style entree corridor, a curbless situation that blends a vehicular thrust aisle with a pedestrian way. This woonerf provides vehicular entree to the building's store parking portion safely allowing for pedestrian circulation to transportation connected simultaneously. The 15'-0" wide thrust aisle is differentiated from the pedestrian mode with chiseled pavement markings and materiality. However, the combined widths of the thrust aisle and pedestrian mode supply for a continuous 20'-0" wide, vehicularly-graded aboveground which allows for some firetruck and two-way traffic. The plan for the woonerf prioritizes pedestrian safety. The intended information is 1 of slow-moving postulation and accessible pedestrian surfaces flanked by plantings. A recently landscaped courtyard betwixt 777 Huntington and 779 Huntington connects to the woonerf, providing for further plantings and occupiable space.

A sloped pedestrian corridor provides circulation on the occidental broadside of 775 Huntington, connecting the woonerf to Huntington Avenue's "Welcome Mat" streetscape. This accessible sloped way meanders done a vegetated autochthonal woodland landscape, "Woodland Connection."

775 Huntington Ave. filings and calendar.