Still plenty of room left for development on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain: Apartment building proposed to replace parking lot

A Dedham developer is proposing to regenerate what is present a tow batch astatine 3409 Washington St. with a 29-unit flat building.

The connection by S & H Management would beryllium a mates doors down from a caller 21-unit residential building and a fewer doors down from wherever the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. has support for a 39-unit flat gathering for seniors (although that radical would archetypal person to prevail against lawsuits by a neighboring brewery and its landlord).

It's crossed the thoroughfare from BMS Paper, whose proprietor has projected adding 160 residential units atop its existing warehouse and store, which successful crook is adjacent wherever Pine Street Inn has support for a 140-unit flat building. Just crossed Green Street, a developer has projected a 43-unit building to regenerate the parking batch and store adjacent to wherever Exodus Bagels utilized to be.

S & H's plans telephone for 5 affordable units. In total, the gathering would person 14 studios, 8 one-bedroom units and 7 two-bedroom apartments, ranging successful size from 450 to 850 quadrate feet.

The gathering would person parking for 7 cars: "The task is simply a transit-oriented, smart-growth improvement that takes vantage of the MBTA buses on Washington Street and adjacent Orange Line Green Street T-Stop and Forest Hills multi-modal transit station."

Also planned: A ground-floor "community" abstraction that S & H is inactive figuring retired precisely what to capable with; possibilities scope from an creation workplace to a coffeehouse to a country for assemblage meetings.

Their filing describes the architecture:

The task seeks to proceed the worldly palette already recovered connected Washington St by employing ceramic with acheronian metallic detailing portion besides utilizing different complimentary high-quality materials. Terra cotta and small-scale textured metallic panels volition subordinate to the finer residential atom and enrich the streetscape. A screening constituent volition conceal the parking country and visually bounds the interruption successful the crushed level needed to accommodate off-street parking. The screening, acceptable backmost from the gathering face, creates an accrued pedestrian portion and an improved streetscape.

The rear and broadside facades of the task volition employment the aforesaid precocious quality, thoughtfully elaborate materials and connection recovered connected the Washington St façade. Additional step-backs volition bounds the rear massing toward neighboring residential units connected Union Ave.

3409 Washington St. filings and calendar.