Hey, there! Log in / Register

Adams Corner loses howitzer protection but will get a five-story apartment building for older residents in its place

By adamg on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 3:19pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports workers today carted away the howitzer that long sat outside the American Legion Old Dorchester Post 65 next to the Eire Pub, because the post was shut recently and sold to a developer planning a building aimed at people between 55 and 65. The gun is being given to a veterans post on the Cape.

Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
Development
Free tagging: 
Adams Street
Gallivan Boulevard
Adams Corner


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Comments

By John Costello on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 8:46am.

That site has been in development play for 10 years.

From 1870 to 1915 or so there was a gas holder on site.

The back wall of the Eire Pub is the old easterly wall of the gas holder (Hence why the men's room at the Eire is the size of an MBTA toll collector's booth).

Hopefully the site is clean.

up
Voting closed 25

By epeemike81 on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 11:15am.

It's good that they're building housing, obviously, but sad that we keep losing these spaces. Posts serve an important role in the community both as an everyday working class social club and as affordable function space for life events.

I wish more of these posts could find a way to work with developers to both build denser housing AND remain open for their members and the community a la the Dilboy Post in Somerville

That all said, at least they're actually developing it! The nearby St. Mark's Post on Bailey St. closed 7 years ago with the intent to sell to developers and is still sitting empty! Same for the VFW post on Tremon St. in Mission Hill. The worst of all possible worlds.

up
Voting closed 19

By John Costello on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 1:06pm.

When was the last time you went down Bailey Street?

That site was under construction 3 months ago.

(I worked for 3 days at the St. Mark's Post and quit owing to a few members taking out their drill sergeant fantasies on me on how the bathroom should be cleaned after they had been posted on a bar stool from Noon that day).

up
Voting closed 17

By epeemike81 on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 1:18pm.

Admittedly I haven't been that way for a while... Google's most recent satellite image (c. 2024) had no visible signs of construction, but glad to hear that's changed.

Any word on what they're building? BPDA doesn't seem to have any plans filed for that site that I can find.Never mind. found it. https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/69-bailey-street

Still a shame that it took 7 years... but at least it's finally underway done, apparently.

up
Voting closed 24

By Lee on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 5:21pm.

… into early influences and who you modeled yourself after.

up
Voting closed 20

By John Costello on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 6:43pm.

It wasn't sad little twerps like you either.

Go arrange your Glora Swanson memorabilia.

up
Voting closed 21

By Allstonpete on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 2:36pm.

....but isn't it called "Adams Village"?

(There is an Adams Corner
in the Germantown section of Quincy)

up
Voting closed 14

By Plen-T-Pak on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 3:04pm.

Invented by realtors.

up
Voting closed 22

By Lee on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 5:25pm.

… je ne sais quoi.

up
Voting closed 18

By Kinopio on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 2:57pm.

More discrimination against the people the city needs the most(working age people) in favor of the people most responsible for the housing crisis.

up
Voting closed 18

By John Costello on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 3:52pm.

You are a rich raised brat and you wouldn't live in Adams Corner if your life depended on it.

Too many of those dirty Irish there for your liking.

up
Voting closed 23

By Lee on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 5:29pm.

Do you kick them the way you wish you could puppies?

up
Voting closed 18

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 10:07pm.

That people with "empty nests" are also being messed up by the market, which is contributing to messing up the market further?

Plenty of people 55 to 65 want to sell and downsize. 55 to 65 year olds are still "working age" and can't yet relocate to the hinterlands due to commuting needs. You understand that "official" retirement age is now 67-70, right? Right?

The problem is that the rental market is so effed up that such downsizing isn't economically feasible. I'd happily trade my 3br 2bath home for a 2br 1bath apartment until I retire and buy someplace further out, but that isn't a rational interim step because there aren't enough 1-2 bedroom apartments or condos and rents are insane.

Meanwhile, younger people can't find these 1-2 br units to buy or rent, either, because there aren't enough of them. Millennials who moved into them 10 years ago are triple bunking kids in the second bedroom and can't afford to move into larger spaces because there is no inventory and prices are insane - and that inventory is tied up and insanely priced because people like me can't afford to downsize.

TL/DR: empty nesters not being able to move is part of the problem of insane housing prices. Building places for working age empty nesters to downsize into is part of the solution.

Side note: many of my Gen-X friends aren't looking to age in place, having seen what happened to our elders who wouldn't move, ended up using only three rooms of their eight room house and struggled to keep up with maintenance and utility bills while filling the place with brown furniture for their kids to deal with.

up
Voting closed 23