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A 7,300-square-foot South Boston squid processing plant will be replaced with a 93 apartments under plans submitted by a development partnership this week.
Developers including the family that’s owned the property since 1953 propose replacing North Coast Seafoods’ plant and warehouse with a 96,000-square-foot residential building along with a 53-space parking garage on the 0.6-acre parcel.
Along with improvements to pedestrian conditions and removing a billboard along West Second Street, the project will deliver some relief to neighborhood residents, developers noted in a filing with the Boston Planning and Development Agency: it will remove odor from the 24-hour processing of imported seafood that wafts through the neighborhood on summer days.
Boston-based Prellwitz Chilinski Associates designed the project including a residential building ranging from four to six stories. The project would include 12 income-restricted units reserved for households earning a maximum 70 percent of area median income.
The project will require five variances from the zoning board of appeals, including those for floor area ratio and building height.
The development team includes longtime property owner P. Christopher Associates and Prospectus South Boston LLC, which is led by developer William Cress whose past projects include the Tufts corporate offices in Watertown and 2 Canal Park in Cambridge.
