Rendering by RODE Architects
Developer Sing Ming Chan this week filed plans for a proposed nine-story, 71-unit apartment building at 49-51 D St. in South Boston.
The proposed building, which would replace what is now a two-story industrial building, would include 12 affordable units, ground-floor commercial space and a "pocket park" - but no parking spaces, with tenants with cars directed to "off-site available
commercial nearby parking spaces."
The units would be divided between 9 studios, 32 one-bedroom units and 30 two-bedroom units.
The site's direct neighborhood is characterized by manufacturing, light industrial, and commercial businesses. The buildings that house these uses are almost entirely brick buildings. The currently low-rise, industrial nature of the neighborhood will give way to new development, defined by large blocks of 200-foot tall, mixed-use buildings composed largely of residential, life sciences, light manufacturing, and some retail.
At the terminus of D Street, the Proposed Project exists at the hinge between this neighborhood of row houses and the newly aligned and expanded streets and large scale multi-unit buildings. The proposed project has been refined in scale with City feedback to be at home amongst the podium scale of the future large-scale blocks as well as the Old Colony streetscape.