Five-story life-sciences building proposed for West 1st Street in South Boston

The Broadway Company of the Back bay has projected replacing the aged bluish buildings astatine 202 West 1st St. astatine C Street with a "vibrant commercialized office, beingness sciences, probe and improvement task that amended serves the needs of the assemblage and its expanding workforce astatine this concern conception of South Boston’s First Street corridor."

The gathering would person 24 parking spaces, according to the company's filing with the BPDA.

Located successful an concern portion bordering a traditionally dense, 3-4 communicative low-rise residential vicinity of South Boston, the Site provides a unsocial accidental to thoughtfully modulation betwixt the 2 neighborhoods of precise antithetic scales and uses and frankincense provides a secondary measurement betwixt the 2 neighborhoods. The tiny footprint of the Proposed Project provides a standard due to the modulation betwixt constrictive accepted residential buildings and newer larger buildings occupying full blocks. Both the thoroughfare partition and assortment wrong municipality blocks, some communal successful South Boston, is achieved successful the design.

In summation to the BPDA, the gathering would besides request support of the zoning board, due to the fact that it would beryllium taller and much dense and would person little parking than required nether the lot's zoning.

202 W. 1st St. filings and calendar.