First Look: 252-Unit Apartment Project Proposed at Forest Hills

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA — A developer wants to replace the parking lot outside the MBTA's Forest Hills station with a 252-unit apartment building with retail on the ground floor, according to a proposal submitted last week to the Boston Planning and Development Agency.

The Residences at Forest Hills, as proposed by Criterion Development Partners, would redevelop the surface parking lot into a six-story housing and retail development.

Of the 252 units, 50 would be affordable housing, according to Criterion's proposal.

There would additionally be a lower-level parking garage with room for 130 parking spaces, according to the proposal, and an additional 10 short-term street parking spaces. It will additionally build in a connection to the Southwest Corridor Park cycling path.

According to the developer's proposal, this plan is a scaled-back version of its original pitch. Based on community input, the developer's BPDA proposal says, the building has been scaled back from the 260 residential units originally proposed, and additionally modifies the proposed shape of the building to pull farther back from the Orchardhill Road side of the property.

Read more about the project and see all of the documents submitted to the BPDA here.

Images by ICON Architecture, via BPDA