04-03-2025
High rises on Morrissey Boulevard? Developer pitches 18-story towers near JFK T stop.
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A rendering of two 18-story residential towers proposed at 75 Morrissey Blvd. in Dorchester.
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Designed by Boston-based CBT Architects, the towers — one at 204 feet facing Morrissey Boulevard, another at 206 feet facing Interstate 93 — would each have three levels of underground parking. Between them, the developers have planned a roughly half-acre community park.
The Morrissey Boulevard project stretches nearly 9 acres from 35-75 Morrissey Blvd., including the Star Market grocery store and former TV studio along with the former Beasley Media radio studios. A seven-building master plan, approved by the Boston Planning and Development Agency board in 2023 — albeit under a different developer — calls for three apartment buildings and four office/lab buildings.
The BPDA board-approved master plan calls for a grocery store to be included within the third planned residential tower. The radio site at 55 Morrissey Blvd. how houses
The Record Co., which offers affordable recording studio and rehearsal spaces. Beasley
The development would include a community park located between the two new residential towers.
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Of the 754 apartments planned at 75 Morrissey Blvd., about 150 — or 20 percent — would be set aside as affordable. Copper Mill said it intends to start construction in the first half of next year, wrapping up by early 2029.
The site is located across Morrissey Boulevard from the mammoth 21-building Dorchester Bay City mixed-use project. The BPDA board
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Copper Mill is also proposing a 25-story apartment tower on Elm Street in Somerville, a project that earlier this year
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