The owner of Perkins Supply on West Broadway, where it turns into East Broadway, has filed plans to tear down the building and the neighboring Dunkin' Donuts and replace them with a five-story condo building with an underground garage and first-floor retail space.
In a filing with the BRA, Frank Sorrenti proposes 18 condo units - 2 of them marketed as affordable - and a garage with space for 21 cars and numerous bicycles. Sorrenti would also make an unspecified payment to the BRA's fund for building affordable housing.
The building skin will be a composition of brick panels with large floor-to-ceiling glazing covering the majority of the exterior façades, with accents of metal panels. The materials and façade details are intended to visually interrupt the massing of the building along its elevations in order to better integrate with the West Broadway and Dorchester Street streetscapes.
Sorrenti hopes to begin work on the $8.4-million project in mid-2017, with construction expected to take about a year.