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Elkus Manfredi Architects
Plans to build two residential towers above the Massachusetts Turnpike in Back Bay have been scaled back with elimination of a 182-unit apartment tower and reduction in a proposed condo tower from 160 to 108 units.
In January 2017, Boston-based Weiner Ventures filed plans to build 182 apartments and 160 condos in a pair of towers rising 586 and 301 feet on a 1-acre site above the Turnpike and MBTA rail lines just west of the Hynes Convention Center.
The 212,000-square-foot apartment tower at the corner of Boylston and Dalton streets has been shelved and the condo tower would shrink from 442,000 to 394,000 square feet. Although the apartment tower has been eliminated, a deck would still be built above the Turnpike using air rights owned by Prudential Insurance.
“The reconfigured project meets the objectives of the Boston Planning and Development Agency and community to fully deck over the opening to the Turnpike below while also eliminating the second residential building,” Managing Partner Adam Weiner wrote in a letter to the agency accompanying a draft environmental impact report Sept. 22.
The 27-story condo tower above a 2-story, 45,500-square-foot retail podium and two levels of parking would be built on a vacant site next to the Turnpike bounded by Boylston, Dalton, Cambria, St. Cecelia and Scotia streets. The changes reduce its height by 82 feet to 544 feet.
The revised plans filed Monday with the Boston Planning and Development Agency are the latest in a series of pullbacks by multifamily developers in Boston after several years of blistering construction.
Equity Residential said it’s delayed groundbreaking of its 44-story apartment tower at the Garden Garage site in the West End, citing rising construction costs.
Boston-based Samuels & Assoc. last month dropped plans for 550 apartments at the Landmark Center in the Fenway in favor of a proposed 506,000-square-foot office and lab building called 401 Park.
And Boston-based HYM Investment Group said in July it will eliminate 118 apartments in favor of 55 condos at its 45-story Bulfinch Crossing tower under construction at the Government Center garage property.
