Developer files plans for Dot condo project
A Newton developer is pushing ahead with plans to build a 57-unit residential project in Dorchester’s Lower Mills neighborhood.
City Point Development LLC wants to redevelop the roughly one-acre site at 1120-1132 Washington St., which currently includes the former Molloy Funeral Home, a vacant lot and three residential buildings at the southeastern edge of Dorchester.
The proposed four-story building’s one- to three-bedroom residential units are expected to be condominiums, but could be developed as apartments if market conditions, financing and other factors make them more economically feasible, according to project plans filed yesterday with the Boston Planning & Development Agency. Seven of the units would be set aside as affordable.
City Point bought the site, which is just more than a quartermile from the MBTA’s Milton Station, from Molloy Family Limited Partnership for $1.8 million in August 2014.
Its project would include indoor bicycle storage, 86 residential parking spaces and eight other spaces for the 3,600 square feet of ground-floor commercial space slated to be two professional offices and/or a locally owned and operated store. Open space plans include a lawn for small-scale informal play, a play area for toddlers and a patio with shaded benches.
Dorchester-based Roche-Christopher Architecture is the project’s architect.
City Point, pending BPDA and other project approvals, hopes to start construction early next year, with work expected to last up to two years.
The proposed development is expected to generate fewer than three new vehicle trips per minute during peak traffic hours, according to City Point’s project documents.