Boston Zoning Commission

9:00 AM

Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Master Plan for

Planned Development Area No. 51, Hood Park, Charlestown

Development Plan for 15 Supertest Street within Planned

Development Area No. 51, Hood Park

Development Plan for 25 Supertest Street within Planned

Development Area No. 51, Hood Park

The Master Plan Amendment proposes to increase the area of the 15

Supertest Street project from the originally proposed 12,000 square feet of

area to approximately 49,800 square feet as defined by the target retail

market requirements and the proposed 32-unit residential program on the

upper floors. Additionally, the Master Plan Amendment proposes to

increase the proposed gross floor area of the 25 Supertest project, from a

gross floor area of 128,800 square feet to a gross floor area of 224,400

square feet, and to add multifamily rental residential housing to the hotel

described in the Master Plan.

The 15 Supertest Street Development Plan consists of the construction of

a new approximately 49,800 square foot building not exceeding a height of

57 feet for approximately 24,000 square feet of retail space fronting on

Rutherford Avenue and Supertest Street, with approximately 32 residential

units above to be used for market rate and income restricted rental

housing, with underground parking facilities in a parking garage structure

that will be shared with the future 25 Supertest Street project. The 15

Supertest street project includes between twenty-four (24) and thirty-two

(32) total residential units including between eighteen (18) and twenty-six

(26) affordable units.

The 25 Supertest Street Development Plan consists of the construction of

a new eighteen-story building, including the mechanical penthouse, plus

rooftop mechanical equipment, rooftop solar panels, penthouses, and

screen walls for a total maximum height of 235 feet. The gross floor area

of the project will be approximately 224,400 square feet, for hotel,

residential, and accessory uses with approximately 150 underground

parking spaces that will be determined by the project’s final program of

uses and in compliance with the City’s Maximum Parking Ratios. The 25

Supertest project will result in an off-site affordable housing creation

project per the requirements of Article 79, based on twenty (20) percent of

the proposed 87,000 Useable Square Feet of the residential area.