Community meeting regarding development at 343-349 Summer St.

[hikermtnbiker.livejournal.com]

Wednesday Sept 30 at 7pm. Dilboy VFW 371 Summer St.

Alderman Gewirtz will be hosting a meeting regarding the proposed development at 343-349 Summer St. Development involves the parking lot adjacent to the Dilboy Post / Winter Hill Bank Building and the "shaft site". Currrent proposal is for a 4 story 40,000sqft mixed commercial / residential building on the lot with 30 condos and a new 8000sqft VFW post on the shaft site with parking. Developer will be presenting plans at the meeting.

This large project will require a special permit, 2 variances and moving a bar license to the new VFW site so community involvement is essential.

Call Alderman Gewirtz at 617-718-0792 or mail at rebekah@rcn.com for more info

Comments

[ron_newman]

What would happen to the existing VFW? Would the bank just expand into it?

[hikermtnbiker.livejournal.com]

Unclear. I was told that the VFW owns that space,so I assume that they would sell it. The bank would be a likely customer. A good question for the meeting.

The reason that the VFW is involved is that the developer has been prevented from building on the shaft site. So they have come up with the property swap to allow both to get something built. VFW gets shaft site and developer builds in VFW parking lot. I am sure also that the VFW gets a pile of money.