davis_square | Miso Market building (Reply)

(Once again in lieu of an active porter-square community.)

I saw Miso Market has a petition to save their building from being demolished. At first I was "yeah, save this little piece of Tokyo!" Then I was "wait, it's a one-story building, it totally deserves to be replaced by something taller, ideally a whole bunch of apartments on top of a commercial level, like the Paper Source building at 2018 Mass Ave[1]". Then I was "how is a petition going to stop a landlord?"

Also I don't know if Cambridge zoning is smart enough to allow a mixed-use building to be built these days; the Paper Source one is obviously way old.

So does anyone know what the plans for the site are?

Edit: I forgot to rant about the veritable plague of one-story commercial buildings in the whole area. But there really is, once you know to look for it. Big waste of space, plus their parking lots (near T stops), plus that empty triangle at Beacon and Oxford.

[1] At least it says 2018, but it's across from the mystery church on Roseland, and before 1815 on the other side, so I dunno.