Group proposes four-story arts building on West Newton Street in the South End

Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción yesterday filed plans with the BPDA for a caller location for the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts: A four-story gathering wherever the erstwhile All Saints Lutheran Church utilized to be, astatine 85 West Newton St. successful IBA's Villa Victoria lodging complex.

The erstwhile religion had been the center's location until past year, erstwhile IBA tore it down earlier it could autumn down.

The caller gathering volition see grounds space, classrooms and IBA offices, nether the group's proposal.

Currently, the 85 West Newton Street parcel is vacant, and could pull unwelcome activity. IBA is anxious to redevelop the parcel. The gathering besides volition location acquisition and arts programs, bureau space, and assemblage services, making it an progressive spot that improves municipality information of the O’Day playground and West Newton Street areas. The caller Multipurpose Community Arts Center volition supply integrated scenery lighting on its facade and the nationalist alley to amended visibility and safety.

IBA’s extremity is to plan a gathering that is colorful and that unites the quality of Puerto Rican, Latin-Caribbean civilization with Boston’s section architecture heritage. The projected gathering volition grant the past and look guardant with anticipation for the community’s future.

85 West Newton St. filings and calendar.