Parcel to parcel linkage project 2: park square and transitional housing.
Published: 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End -- Linkage.; Development Projects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Park Plaza -- Proposals.; Development Projects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End -- Proposals.; Downtown, Boston (Mass.) -- Development Projects -- Proposed.; Housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Park Square -- Proposed.; Linkage -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Park Square / South End.; Office buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Park Square -- Proposed.; Park Square, Boston (Mass.) -- Development Projects.; Shelters for the homeless -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End.; City planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End.; South End (Boston, Mass.) -- Development Projects -- Linkage.
Description: ...provides information to potential developers on a second parcel-to-parcel linkage program between downtown Boston's Park Square mixed-use development project (residential housing, office and retail) and a South End, Washington Street project (on parcels RC-9, RC-60 and RC-30) that would include transitional housing for homeless women and their children together with a child day care facility and open space; briefly describes each, sets forth urban design guidelines (uses, height and massing, motor vehicle access and circulation, pedestrian ways and amenities, character and materials, views and vistas, environmental impacts, minority employment) and gives program overview and objectives; includes a summary of developer submission rquirements, data on the financial linkage concept, developer selection criteria, etc.;a draft containing a different glossy colored rendering is also kept on this number; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...