On Universal Hub: 63 apartments and condos proposed for long vacant Grove Hall lot

09.19.2024

Rendering of proposed 639 Warren St.

Rendering by Studio Luz Architects.

The Madison Park Development Corp. has filed plans for a six-story residential building on a lot Warren and Crawford street in Roxbury that has sat vacant since the 1960s as a holdover from the Washington Park urban-renewal project.

All of the units – 54 apartments and 9 condos – would be rented or sold as affordable, according to the non-profit’s filing with the Boston Planning Department. Some 16 of the apartments would rented to people making no more than 30% of the Boston area median income, with the rest to people making no more than 60% or 80% of that amount. The condos would be aimed at people making no more than 80% or 120% of that amount.

The units would range from one to three bedrooms.

In addition to residential units, the building would have 2,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.

Madison Park says it is still figuring out the number of parking spaces, but that it is tentatively looking at 22 spaces in a lot on the three-quarter-acre parcel. The site is next to several bus lines and is about a half mile from the Four Corners/Geneva station on the Fairmount Line. Madison Park says it will provide indoor bike storage.

639 Warren St. filings and meeting/comment schedule.

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