Community Meeting on 231 Lowell Street Proposal

[courtney]

THERE WILL BE A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING REGARDING THE PROPOSED MIXDED-USE DEVELOPMENT AT 231 LOWELL STREET: (19 condominium units & 2 commercial units)

PLANS CAN BE SEEN AT THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE WEBSITE: http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/LowellSt231-PlansOption1.pdf

SPONSORED BY: Ward 5 Alderman Mark Niedergang

Developer Steven Caruso, his Attorney Richard Di Girolamo, and Architect Peter Quinn will present the plans and answer questions.

WHEN: MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015, 7:00 P.M.
PLACE: Visiting Nurse Association, 3rd Floor Community Room, 259 Lowell Street, Somerville

Note to community members: This will be an important project in the heart of Ward 5 and Somerville. 231 Lowell Street is near the coming Green Line T station, the Lowell Street bridge, and the Community Path Extension temporary end point.

For more information contact:
Ward 5 Alderman Mark Niedergang
617-629-8033 or mniedergang@somervillema.gov

Comments

[ron_newman]

What is currently on this site?

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

if you look at the plan linked to in the OP (oops! the hyperlink above doesn't include the final 'f' in '.pdf' so you have to add it manually) you can see a pic of the current building - a brick building that presently houses a glass/mirror workshop.

Link Updated

[courtney (from livejournal.com)]

Apologies, I updated the link for you.

RE: Link Updated

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

damn, man... it's a lot of housing (19 units ?) and would add a lot of cars (21 ?) and the traffic on lowell is already a b*tch.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

Just wait til the T stop opens. People dropping off, people picking up, people idling their cars in places they shouldn't with their hazards on...and the main entry point for the station will be right across from a tiny 1.5 lane side street. THAT is a lot of cars. Yes, the traffic on Lowell St. will get worse. Somerville is a city crammed full of people, with mediocre public transit options for most locations.

Personally, I worry more about the new building at 245 Lowell St. -- that's the low spot in the road from two directions, and if the 1st floor doesn't have flooding problems, I don't know why.

[ron_newman]

That's why the T stop won't have a parking lot. I do hope we can finally get a north-south bus route in Somerville, using Lowell Street and stopping at the new T station.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I've lived in a town about the population of Somerville and 1/3 the density, that had better cross-city public transit. The MBTA bus network sucks, but Somerville could be supplementing it with shuttles.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

I hope congestion from drop-offs doesn't happen.

I haven't noticed it being an issue at any other T station, with the exception of Alewife.

[el-cubano-15.livejournal.com]

The amount of development in Somerville is staggering.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Not as staggering as the rent increases I hear about. Limited supply, meet rising demand.

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Ding Ding! And ironically it is the same people complaining about density also complaining about rising rents and sometimes resisting anything that would deviate from transportation policies 100% focused on automobiles. Sad that in our moment in history development decisions are driven by traffic and parking concerns.

[el-cubano-15.livejournal.com]

I don't believe that to be correct. Development decisions are driven by how much money the developers can make. Period. End of.