A Boston developer has proposed building a $60 million apartment complex with 278 units between the JFK/UMass MBTA station and the Shaw’s Supermarket on Morrissey Boulevard — a potential step toward a more extensive development with restaurants, shops, and office space along the sparsely populated roadway.
David Greaney, president of Synergy Investments, said his firm has sent a letter of intent to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, outlining its plans for the 2.35-acre Dorchester property, much of which is overgrown with waist-high weeds and surrounded by a chain-link fence. A portion of the site is used as surplus parking for Shaw’s.
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A car dealership is almost certainly NOT the kind of development that is going to make that area more appealing for "transit riders, bicycles, or pedestrians." What would be a huge help is to transform Morrissey Boulevard from a veritable six lane highway into a much slower road with lots of crosswalks and iviting sidewalks with street side businesses, and develop some of the empty concrete under i-93 so that it actually feels like an inviting place to walk through rather than a vacant parking lot.
Suffice to say, this area has all the most expensive ingredients of successful urban development, but it needs a lot of work on the little things.