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Five-story condo building on Market Street in Brighton wins zoning approval
By adamg on Tue, 03/28/2017 - 10:31am
The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved a 29-unit condo building on Market Street at Saybrook Street.
City Realty of Brookline will tear down an existing one-story building, where Brighton's isolation tanks used to be, for the building, which will rise from 35 feet on Saybrook to 54 feet on Market. The building, which will wrap around Brighton House of Pizza, will have 31 parking spaces.
The mayor's office and the offices of city councilors Mark Ciommo, Annissa Essaibi-George and Michael Flaherty voiced support. Annabelle Gomes of the Brighton-Allston Improvement Association also spoke in favor, saying she was glad City Realty agreed to change its original proposal for apartments to condos.
The landlord and owner of the pizza place, however, opposed the project, saying it would remove the space they now use for a dumpster and employee parking - a particular hardship when the streets around the building are all designated resident only.
Zoning-board Chairwoman Christine Araujo asked City Realty to work with Brighton House of Pizza to figure out a solution.
212-214 Market St. project notification form (13.9M PDF).
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Density good for the neighborhood
I used to live a few blocks from there. My biggest complaint about the location is that the one truly walkable neighborhood bar, Irish Village, never seems to have anyone under 40 among the patrons. Maybe 29 brand new units next door will change that.
Miss the old Brighton sensory deprivation tanks
What are isolation tanks?
the irish village
when I was a kid we hung around right near this spot. every 30 minutes or so two drunk Irishmen would spill out of the bar to settle a score and we had front row seats. we would see 3 or 4 fights over the course of a weekend afternoon. it was always young drunk irish guys rolling around on that sidewalk. sometimes nobody else would even come out of the bar to watch them fight! just the two guys scrapping while me and my friends ate slices of pizza on the opposite corner and watched. the fights almost always ended with the two combatants throwing their arms around each other and going back into the Village for more pints.
Tons of parking
Maybe they could buy a few permanent spaces across the street next to the CVS for the pizza guys to use. That lot is enormous and always empty.