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Allston residents responded with cautious approval to proposals presented by the City of Boston to revitalize Barry??s Corner and Holton Street Corridor, two key tracts of land in Allston that have stood underdeveloped for decades, at last night’s North-Allston Brighton Community-Wide Plan meeting...
Consultants from the Cecil Group, an urban planning firm that is advising the Boston Redevelopment Authority, unveiled several versions of a plan to turn Barry??s Corner—a large intersection at North Harvard St. and Western Ave. that currently contains only a gas station—into a community hub that contains restaurants, cafes and a park. To illustrate their particular vision, the presenters made comparisons to other lively urban centers that are bordered by institutions, such as Harvard Square and University Park near...
...University’s 50-year master plan foresees academic and institutional buildings framing two sides of Barry??s corner, and developers proposed an array of mixed-use buildings of varying heights to fill out the football-field-size space remaining...
After the discussion on Barry??s corner, developers also presented plans for the redesign of the Holton Street Corridor, a mix of residences and businesses adjacent to Brighton Mills. Some of the ideas included adding multi-functional retail spaces that would contain a pharmacy, a grocery store and a series of small neighborhood parks...
...Allston. “Harvard students and staff are not the only ones who are coming in and out of the neighborhood,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense to me to have all of these wonderful improvements stop at Barry??s Corner and then leave the rest of the neighborhood as it is.” Glavin reassured the audience that the city would ensure that the community would benefit from the University’s transportation improvements. “We need to see that Harvard...