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A 1 million-square-foot mixed-use redevelopment of four Soldiers Field Road properties would include 200 income-restricted apartments as Trammell Crow Co. ramps up its activity in Boston.
Three proposed buildings including office, lab and retail space would replace an IHOP restaurant, the Charles River Inn motel, a car dealership and a contractors’ building.
“These redevelopment sites including have remained effectively untouched and unimproved since the 1950s and 1960s, despite their gateway location at the origin of Soldiers Field Road and running alongside the Charles River,” developers wrote in the submission.
The commercial space would subsidize the housing affordability, Trammell Crow Co. said in a notification to the Boston Planning & Development Agency. Nearly two-thirds of the units would include two or three bedrooms, a goal of Allston-Brighton neighborhood activists who have demanded more family-sized housing in new developments to prevent displacement.
Developers also plan to seek approval of a 121A alternative tax agreement, which can be approved for projects at blighted properties.
The site spans 7 acres and includes parcels at 1600, 1800 and 1850 Soldiers Field Road and 15 Soldiers Field Place.
The Texas developer is partnering with The Community Builders, which would own and develop the affordable housing component after receiving linkage payments. TCB also is partnering with The Davis Cos. on a 72-unit affordable condominium and apartment building on Telford Street as part of Davis’ proposed redevelopment of 1234 Soldiers Field Road.
The proposal arrives after the BPDA last week approved the first development following its Western Avenue planning study, which allows increased density along the corridor. National Development will build three lab buildings totaling 700,000 square feet and an 85-unit apartment complex on the WBZ-TV studios property at 1170 Soldiers Field Road. The Trammell Crow proposal is “immediately adjacent” to the Western Avenue corridor planning area and will be consistent with its guidelines, developers said.
The project also will include improvements to Leo M. Birmingham Park and Parkway and nearby Massachusetts Turnpike underpasses.
In November, Trammell Crow named former Hobbs Brook Real Estate CEO Sam Schaefer to lead its Boston-area expansion in the office, multifamily, life science and industrial property sectors.
The Texas developer received approval from Lexington officials last year to redevelop the Quality Inn and Suites hotel property at 440 Bedford St. as a 335,000-square-foot life science complex.
Trammell Crow and joint venture partner Invesco acquired the Lexington property in July for $30 million.
