http://lcmayer.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] lcmayer.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2009-01-14 12:33 pm
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donut house progress

Highland road and morrison ave - Looks like they've got the framing done for the first floor of whatever the former donut shop is being reincarnated as. Does anyone know about the company who is developing the property - are they a good company or is this going to be another "davis square condos" situation?
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Re: No, it's Highland Road

[identity profile] lcmayer.livejournal.com 2009-01-14 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Highland road is a quite lovely street - its where all the big wigs used to live when Somerville was "young" - the judges, mayors, people with money. That's why the houses are so nice and the street is so wide. It was THE place to live at one time...and still is, imho...

Re: No, it's Highland Road

[identity profile] somertricky.livejournal.com 2009-01-14 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't the dirty secret that all that room out front leaves the houses with absolutely miniscule backyards?

It's All Relative Dept.

[identity profile] somertricky.livejournal.com 2009-01-14 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Nevermind, sort of. Highland Avenue lots are 80 feet deep, same as Josephine and Rogers. To the east, Pearson, Pritchard, Boston: 70 and 75 feet deep.

However, west of Willow (Lowden, Bay State, Liberty) the lots are 95 or 100 feet deep. There's where the original thought came from...

Re: It's All Relative Dept.

[personal profile] ron_newman 2009-01-15 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you mean Highland Road, too ...

Re: No, it's Highland Road

[identity profile] ukelele.livejournal.com 2009-01-15 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, that makes sense! I live on one of the neighboring streets and had wondered why that one was different.

Re: No, it's Highland Road

[identity profile] elements.livejournal.com 2009-01-15 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, the reason it is that way - with the additional green space between the sidewalk and the street, making it more desirable - is that originally, when the bike path was a railway, the train stop was where the donut shop used to be, and Highland between the bike path and Kidder was planned to be a park. (The whole College/Morrison/Broadway/Cedar neighborhood was planned.) Then they ended up deciding to build houses there after all, and so had more room. At least that is the story I was told, wish I could recall who told it!
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