A 131-unit apartment tower is proposed for a site in Boston’s Bay Village where development proposals for luxury condos and an office building failed in the past decade.
A new development team submitted designs by Höweler + Yoon Architecture of Boston for a 19-story, 146,000-square-foot rental complex on four parcels at 212-222 Stuart St. and 17-19 Shawmut St.
Transom Real Estate LLC and Wheelock Street Capital said the project will “transform a blighted urban infill site into a high-quality building,” according to the project notification form filed this week with the Boston Planning and Development Agency. The facade, consisting of 3- to 9-foot-wide scalloped panels, would be “completely unique and new to Boston,” generating long curving shadows on the building when the sun is low.
The 7,712-square-foot site contains a 20-space parking lot, parking attendant structure and vacant land previously occupied by a former chapel-turned-restaurant building that was demolished in 2014 by the previous owner.
Plans for a 10-story residential building on the 212 Stuart St. parcel were approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 2006. A revised proposal for a 65,700-square-foot office and retail building incorporating the 222 Stuart St. property was approved in 2008 but never broke ground.
Stuart Acquisition 12 LLC acquired 212 Stuart St. on May 6 for $6 million, according to data from The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman. Stuart Acquisition 22 LLC paid $7.5 million for the 17-19 Shawmut St. parcel, also on May 6.
The building would contain 3,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. No on-site parking is proposed, but the owner of a garage at 200 Stuart St. has leased up to 50 spaces to the developers. The project would require use, height and floor area ratio variances from the Board of Appeals, according to the filing.
Boston-based Transom Real Estate is led by Peter Spellios, Neal Howard and Bryan Lee. The development team includes architects of record Sasaki Assoc., legal counsel Rubin and Rudman LLP, environmental consultants Epsilon Assoc., transportation consultant Howard Stein Hudson, civil engineer Nitsch Engineering, MEP engineer AHA Consulting Engineers and geotechnical consultant Haley & Aldrich.
