Developer alters Charles River housing proposal

A few hundred marketrate apartments would be built along the Charles River in Brighton under a Boston developer’s plans that also include an affordable condominium building across the street.

Dinosaur Capital Partners LLC has submitted a letter of intent for a sixstory building with 211 market-rate apartments at 1550 Soldiers Field Road and a separate four-story building with 38 incomerestricted condos at 21 Soldiers Field Place.

The real estate development and advisory firm said 148 parking spaces would be available in a garage underneath the apartment building, while condo tenants would have access to 32 open-air spaces.

The sites are about two miles from exits 17 and 18 of the Massachusetts Turnpike. A two-story, 44,800-square-foot office building, built in 1960 and renovated in 2000, with parking for 150 vehicles currently occupies the 1.08-acre Soldiers Field Road location.

Officials from Dinosaur could not be reached for comment.

The company’s project would be a “design-forward” development, according to the letter to the Boston Planning & Development Agency.

“The overall project site will be master planned and designed together, with vehicular access from Soldiers Field Place, compatible site and pedestrian access improvements, robust usable open space and related public realm measures,” the letter states.

Dinosaur originally planned a 230-unit apartment building with 30 affordable units on the Soldiers Field Road parcel, with parking on Soldiers Field Place, but said it changed the project after community feedback.