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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
I'm assuming this doesn't fill out the lot more fully because of the rock formations?
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That's my guess too.
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Originally Posted by towerpower123
Is that the Burger King site? Nice! At one point they wanted to put like an 8 story office building there instead so this is a huge improvement
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It's incredible how much the area has transformed. The zoning encouraged up to four floors of commercial space by having it not count towards the FAR cap. This is intended to bring more jobs to the core of Journal Square. Unfortunately, it did not look this developer wanted to take advantage of that provision. Maybe they need to further incentive it - add an office floor, get a floor of residential free
Affordable housing is also becoming an increasing problem. Inclusionary zoning change requiring affordable units in new developments is a start. I'm anxiously watching how it plays out.
Next up will probably be the KFC (Kennedy Fired Chicken) site.