East Boston Development News – 98-100 Condor Street

It looks like an abandoned manufacturing plant could be developed into 35 apartments at 98-100 Condor Street!

A developer filed a plan with the Boston Planning Department this week, which includes 35 apartments, all market rate,* parking for seven, and indoor storage for 44 bicycles.  The apartments range in size from studio to two-bedrooms.

According to Universal Hub, the large building originally went up in the early 1900s as the home of the Boston and Lockport Block Co., which made pumps, hoists and blocks, for use by other factories. As for the neighborhood this new development will reside in, it’s a designated port area but sits just outside the limits of land near the water, which requires approval from state environmental officials.  Also, recently, an East Boston-wide zoning changed this area into a mixed use zone where housing is allowed from an industrial zone where housing is not permited.

Another caveat to this project via Universal Hub, there will be no affordable units because it complies with the lot’s “waterfront mixed use” zoning, and city regulations currently only require affordable units in buildings that need a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeal. Revised regulations that require affordable units in all such projects regardless of zoning compliance go into effect on Oct. 1, but this building would be grandfathered in.

You can learn more about this filing and meeting schedule here!