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Another South Boston bar to make way for condos

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By adamg on Wed, 01/06/2016 - 10:54pm
Proposed 100 A Street building in South Boston

Architect's schematic.

A developer has filed plans for a six-story luxury condo building at 100 A St. that would feature eight two-bedroom units and one with an almost unheard of four bedrooms on land now occupied by Williams Tavern and My Diner.

In a filing with the BRA last month, developer Michael Moor says the first floor would have room for a coffee shop. The building would have a ten-car garage - supplemented with eight spaces rented in a nearby garage.

The site also borders the Gillette manufacturing complex which is located directly across the street on West 2nd Street. The proposed new 6-story structure will easily serve as an effective “transition”, or “buffer”, between manufacturing activities and the residential/commercial district where this site is located. It should be noted that the immediately adjacent Gillette buildings are of reasonably pleasant design and architectural character.

100 A St. small-project review application (1.1M PDF).

Neighborhoods: 
South Boston
Topics: 
Development
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A Street
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Comments

By John-W on Wed, 01/06/2016 - 10:59pm.

I'm expecting a pack of Jawas to come spilling out the front of it... Utini!!!

By anon on Wed, 01/06/2016 - 11:32pm.

on a Mac 128.

By bagonza joe on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 12:19am.

- Jawaphobic, pal.

By Lunchbox on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 9:36am.

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/family-guy/the-jawa-transport/

By Marco on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 8:23am.

I actually heard this a while ago from someone who works across the street. I didn't wanna believe it cuz I love My Diner so much. Now it's on UHub so it must be true! So sad....

By Spatch on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 9:35am.

My Diner is fantastic and kept me well fed when I was working in Fort Point. To hear it's going for Yet More Gentrified Luxury Condo Crap is very depressing to hear.

By bosguy22 on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 10:54am.

But not better/worse than Mul's up the street. In the end, it was a 1 story building a short walk downtown or to the Red Line. Much better use of space. I just don't see why builders aren't putting more retail space on the first floors of these buildings.

By JasonColony on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 10:25am.

This is sad

By John-W on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 11:20am.

Just can't wait until every Boston n'hood looks like San Jose or Reston or whatever pop-up, disposable architecture, cookie cutter shit hole that is completely indistinguishable from anywhere else in the US. We'll kill this fucking goose yet!

By zetag on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 1:50pm.

They're tearing down a crappy one story building, not the old statehouse.

By John-W on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 7:03pm.

putting up another cheap-ass nondescript building that will be falling apart in 20 years.