Assisted living design entered in Global Awards 2023
LOS ANGELES: The forty-second entry in the Global Awards 2023 has been received.
A non-profit group that originally proposed building 59 affordable and assisted-living apartments for senior citizens and 15 affordable condos on and near Cheney Street in Roxbury has filed revised plans with the BPDA that decrease the number of apartments to 48 and the number of condos to 12.
In a filing this week, the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. also increased the total amount of proposed parking from 34 to 37 spaces for its plans for apartments at 4-18 Cheney St., and condos at 20-28 Cheney St. and 3 Schuyler St. A covered 25-space parking lot that was originally meant to be shared by residents of the two Cheney Street buildings will instead be designated just for the apartment building; a separate parking lot will be built for the nine-unit condo building next door.
The group said it made the changes after being unable to convince two neighborhood groups the original plans were not too dense for the neighborhood. The BPDA board approved the original plans in September, 2021.
The largest of the three buildings, the four-story apartment building, is aimed at seniors who need some help with their daily living. A third of the units will be rented to people making no more than 30% and 50% of the Boston area median income; the rest will be rented as “affordable” as well, but to people making more than that.