Image courtesy of Höweler + Yoon, Ground Inc. and J. Garland Enterprises

The latest proposal for redevelopment of Roxbury’s parcel P3 emphasizes affordable housing production, including 498 income-restricted apartments along with 180,000 square feet of office and lab space.

Ruggles Progressive Partners, a group that includes Boston real estate developer Richard Taylor and New York-based Tishman Speyer are partnering to seek the designation from the Boston Planning & Development Agency to turn the 8-acre vacant lot into a mixed-use development. A second respondent, a team of Boston-based HYM Investment Group and community organization My City at Peace, last week announced its proposal for 700,000 square feet of life science space and a mix of 466 market-rate and income-restricted apartments and condominiums.

Taylor, founder of the real estate studies program at Suffolk University, is part of the Nubian Ascend Partners team that was selected in 2020 to redevelop the city-owned Blair lot in Nubian Square.

At parcel P3, the proposal would include eight buildings – including four residential buildings ranging from six to 22 stories, around a central courtyard. The existing Whittier Building would be renovated for a Roxbury history museum in partnership with the Museum of African American History.

Ruggles Progressive Partners is a 35 percent partner with Tishman Speyer and includes local real estate executives Taidgh McClory and Milton Benjamin, entrepreneurs Darryl Settles and Kaidi Grant and Rev. Manikka Bowman, a partner with the Cambridge-based development firm HarveyReed. It proposes a range of income restrictions for the housing, with one-third of the units reserved for households earning a maximum 50 percent of area median income, and up to one-third renting at market rates.

“Our proposal envisions P3 as a truly mixed-use and mixed-income development, bringing together affordable and market-rate uses to establish a new sense of density and vibrancy at this site not seen in more than a generation,” the submission to the BPDA stated.

Developers said they will partner with Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, which is planning to relocate from South End to Nubian Square, on job training programs at a 10,000-square-foot learning lab in one of the proposed buildings. They estimate community benefits from the BFIT buildout and lease terms at $5.5 million.

The project would be built in five phases, beginning with groundbreaking on a 102-unit residential building, 171,095 square feet of lab space and a 116-space underground garage. The design team includes Höweler + Yoon, Ground Inc. and J. Garland Enterprises.