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Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 months, 3 weeks ago
This (above) is a crock of what makes the grass grow. All this takes money and employees!! Give the project five years and all the above will be boarded up due to a lack of staff and money! A garage in the middle of a hosing project is one of the worst things they could do! The drug trafficking will be tremendous. A supermarket where project ppl will be stealing from added the congestion/noise and ppl from outside the project coming in and out to do their shopping......it's a Columbia Point/Bayside all over again!! You'd think we would have learned once already developments this large just don't work!
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Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 months, 3 weeks ago
gelfi colon
Every year is the same excuse, this is horrible for the oldest and largest project in Massachusetts.
Every year is the same excuse, this is horrible for the oldest and largest project in Massachusetts.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 months, 3 weeks ago
I've heard from reputable source that MEM is not coming down, a new project is not being built! Reasons are several but logistics of such an undertaking is not fees able / profitable and the end result would be just another Columbia Point! Money always plays a big part!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
9 months ago
It's so political!!! As pockets get deeper the start date gets pushed further away!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
10 months, 2 weeks ago
They should keep the row houses! Remodel the facades! And grow Ivy along the walls as it was back in the 30's and 40's. We lived in a 5.5 room row house for 32 years, put a fourth bedroom in the basement!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year ago
The project was built in 1932 the craftsmanship was excellent the project is built like the Roman Coliseum! It's all political it's coming down because of politics former Mayor Walsh was the head of the labor unions he's giving back work to the labor workers for voting for him. It's all politics their tearing down a 1,027 unit housing project and building a monstrosity of 3,000 units it's another Columbia Point! You can put in all kinds of stores, garages, senior center employment offices, supermarkets and clubs it's still a housing project. With a garage and a housing project drugs will be rampant! 10 to 15 years from now the stores will be boarded up and they'll be looking for ways to remodel it! Very sad State of affairs
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 2 months ago
Winn developments are known for their "popcorn architecture", the current MEM is still standing strong after 85 years! The craftsmanship that went into building the project back in 1932 can't be repeated. Irish and Italian laborers from the old country built the project with the best materials of the time. You can bet the new MEM will never stand 85 years and look as good as the current MEM!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 2 months ago
If the first phase is to commence in the spring of 2023, and tenants are receiving a 12 month notice it's now summer 2022 have the tenants been notified yet? I've heard nothing yet!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 2 months ago
Why are you putting all seniors in the same building? How depressing is that? Just because they're seniors doesn't mean they all have to be lumped together in one building! This shows the mentality behind this project! Will only apartments in this building be pre-wired for Life alert? How sad.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 2 months ago
You said that the first construction will commence in spring off 2023 and tenants will be given a 12-month notice, it's now the summer of 2022 have they been notified yet?
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 3 months ago
Take the buildings down, but remodel the row houses with a new facade. We all know the existing MEM buildings and row houses are in excellent condition!! The project is being rebuilt to give laborers a big thank you to the former Mayor Walsh formerly the head of the labor union for voting him into city hall. The buildings/houses are in great condition. It's all politics!!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 3 months ago
Keep the row houses!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 3 months ago
It will be a shame to watch the row houses being demolished! They were built in 1932 and the craftsmanship can never be repeated! The new development will never stand 85 years.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 3 months ago
I understand that there will be a washer and dryer in every unit! That will be 3,000 washers and dryers! This should keep maintenance busy IE plumbers everyday of the week!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 7 months ago
Erin, the original Old Harbor Village had everything for children. Playgrounds, basketball courts, building basements had playrooms, lavatories, cooking classes (some of the old stoves are still in the basements), coin washers and areas to hang clothes in the basements as well. The home economics rooms were popular during WW2 teaching girls how to cook. Boy scout meeting rooms, and basement rooms for arts and crafts. All of this was left to rot as years went by. Drugs, crime and the type of element you'll hopefully not see again as a 3000 tenement monstrosity is built on acreage where and existing 1,027 units are currently built. Sad!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 7 months ago
Erin, the original Old Harbor Village had everything for children. Playgrounds, basketball courts, building basements had playrooms, lavatories, cooking classes (some of the old stoves are still in the basements), coin washers and areas to hang clothes in the basements as well. The home economics rooms were popular during WW2 teaching girls how to cook. Boy scout meeting rooms, and basement rooms for arts and crafts. All of this was left to rot as years went by. Drugs, crime and the type of element you'll hopefully not see again as a 3000 tenement monstrosity is built on acreage where and existing 1,027 units are currently built. Sad!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 9 months ago
Hopefully is a big word there!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
1 year, 11 months ago
This is a typical w i n n development. New single family homes, private Apartments condos and then the rest will low income housing. They do not want all SSI recipients living together all welfare recipients living together. At the end of the day it'll be less available for low-income housing
It will be like Harbor housing where the old Columbia Point project used to be
It will be like Harbor housing where the old Columbia Point project used to be
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 1 month ago
I can't see this happening for very long!! It's a new housing project where there was 1027 units on 27 acres. Now with the same acreage a 3000 unit housing project is going up. Garages, shopping center, and a host of stores, and other municipal / employment / senior center and counseling amenities. Sounds great! Spaces need to be rented, employees need to be found/hired and pay checks need to out weekly. This just isn't going to happen. Three years after opening stores and rented centers will be boarded up; lack of reliable personnel, lack of funding, and a high supermarket theft, forcing it to close its doors. This is Columbia Point/Bay Side Shopping Mall all over again! There'll be building and garage elevator problems, throngs of ppl from outside the project coming into the project to shop. On street parking will become impossible. A garage in a housing project is a recipe for crime. Thirty years from now, they'll want to tear it all down! Sad.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 1 month ago
I can't believe what I am reading, all this lawlessness on o'callaghan way! Back in the 1960s we had a pizza truck that would come around through the project up and down the streets selling pizza way after dark never a problem! We had no cameras we had no security guys. You really have to think not too hard to see how things have changed
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2 years, 1 month ago
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 1 month ago
We lived in a row house back in the 60s 70s and 80s it was the quietest neighborhood you ever lived in. Back in the 60s you could actually leave your door unlocked!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 6 months ago
You can forget about washers/dryers, BHD has not the manpower to keep up the repairs. With 3000 units opposed to the 1027 current units there will be plenty of elevators, and garage doors to attend to.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 6 months ago
The above comment is written in Spanish, yet you're asking for my response in English.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 9 months ago
Lived in a row house 1942 to 1982. I remember when there was ivy growing up along the brick walls of the row houses. Nearly every front yard had a tree; with bushes and greenery everywhere. Will never see that again.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 9 months ago
Maryanne. I lived in a townhouse 5.5 rooms, turned basement into another bedroom/study for 35 years. Plenty of space!! Note many of the two bedroom apartments have a balcony/porch. When my grandparents moved in in 1936, the building basements came equipped with washing machines, clothesline fencing. There were nursery school, playrooms, and bathroom facilities in the building basements. Some of the buildings came equipped with stoves/sinks where cooking classes/home economic classes were taught to mothers. Twenty, if that, years later all the facilities were boarded up due to a lack of maintenance, personnel, and funds. It's called housing project plight! I expect the new housing project in twenty five years to look no different than any other housing project. A 3000 unit congested project is really not the way to "house" people. I though Columbia Point was end to all of this.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
2 years, 10 months ago
They had a Stop and Shop, Almay's, and a Zayre's at the Columbia Point project fifty years ago. The project was demolished. The crime rate was out of control. The store's had to close the shop lifting was so bad. The high rise buildings, and the congestion was ghetto!! Here we go again. MEM housing project was built by the Irish and Italian immigrants. Their craftsmanship was that of perfection. MEM does not have to be torn down, this is a political move by Mayor Walsh to get his cronies ( labor unions ) work. He owes them a big thank you, Walsh was head of the labor unions before they all voted him in as mayor.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 1 month ago
Anne, they are only building a housing project. Their starting off "grand", a year and half after opening I can only imagine that most of, garage included, amenities; stores, employment centers, vocational training sites will be boarded up. Again it's only a housing project, it's not Admiral's Hill.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 1 month ago
This would be discrimination based on merit. Everyone is equal, there can be no preferential treatment for tenant longevity. Whether you've been on O'Callaghan Way thirty years or thirty days no one gets an apartment any quicker than anyone else based on merit. I lived in a row house for 35 years. I also know of third generation row house tenants whose family has passed down keys going back to the 1950's; on the same row house! We lived in a 5.5 room row house and turned the basement into a bedroom.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 2 months ago
You're building a 3000 unit housing project. With a supermarket, garage, and dozens of other amenities. How long do you think it'll be before the supermarket closes, the garage is roped off, and all the other amenities are boarded up...with ghetto graffiti sprawled across the plywood? Look at COOP city in the Bronx it's a mess. Mixed income only puts frosting on the ghetto.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 7 months ago
The sociology of all of this is being presented incorrectly. There textbook dreaming if they think this is not going to be another Columbia Point. Condos and what ppl who own condos have will be fish in a pond for the impoverished element living next door. Garages, hallways, vacant apartments are all safe havens for the drug element, and other grimy activities! This is a housing project, not the exclusiveness of Admiral's Hill. And even up at Admiral's Hill there having problems. Sociologists feel diversity is the answer......lets wait and see.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 7 months ago
And with 3,000 units being built you're only going to see more and more of that. Will be hanging out in the garage and hallways as well as shoplifting in the supermarket in adjoining stores.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 7 months ago
I'm very familiar with Castle Square the homes in the apartment buildings that were built there some 40 years ago inow next to dilapidated they couldn't compare with Mary Ellen McCormack solid brick architecture! As far as Mission Hill is concerned I wouldn't live there rent-free it's such a dangerous crime-ridden neighborhood and it's far from racial diversity!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 7 months ago
Anne, I'm from MEM and I'm 71. I've seen housing projects open like this, example Columbia Point. They had a Zayre and Almys record shops, and a slew of stores and a supermarket. Bottom line WINN is not building an Admirals Hill!! It's a housing project! These stores will be boarded up in two years flat. Drug addicts, shop lifters, and ppl from outside the development bringing god knows what into the development. Just because you are building a "high end" diversity scheme....the general make up of the development is still a housing project. Please stop trying to make it something that it's destined not to become. Garages are the worst places! There enclosed giving rise to dark places where drug transactions, car thieves, robberies and you name it can go on! The more I read the more horrified I am that no one, developers, learned anything from the horror across the bay, Columbia Point. 3000 families all jammed in together....what a mess!!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 7 months ago
you folks know that's not going to happen. they'll be budget cuts, lack of personnel, lack of Interest it all sounds very good now that you're trying to justify the Demolition and reconstruction of Mary Ellen McCormack your building another Columbia Point garages big buildings elevators crowded now it's 3,000 people you're trying to squeeze in. You can't have garages, crowded buildings 3000 people jammed in and not expect to have a high crime rate
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 7 months ago
Senior trips camping vocational training job training Job searches all of this comes with new housing. It's to make things Justified in this unnecessary Demolition and reconstruction of Mary Ellen McCormack. Once the new housing project goes up all of these extras will be put to one side due to budget cuts lack of personnel and lack of Interest. They'll be convenience stores laundromats maybe even a travel agency only in Spanish perhaps. W i n n is trying to make it look like tremendous to camouflage the unnecessary Demolition and reconstruction of a housing project. Remember mayor Walsh or was the Union's the construction unions big thank you they voted him into office now he has to give them work he's giving them a great job to do tearing down housing project in rebuilding a new one all of this is political and totally unnecessary
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 7 months ago
Between the washers breaking down, and overflowing, clothes dryers breaking down....the end result will be they'll shut them all down and one or two laundromats will open in the community. As for a garage, remembering that it still is a housing project, garages bring drugs, robberies, stolen cars ect. the garages will soon shut down as well. These developments start off with all kinds of amenities like job placement center, activity center, senior center soon budget cuts, lack of dependable personnel, night time crime, ect what's left is boarded up windows with housing project graffiti! Lets not be delusional.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 8 months ago
Housing project garages never work out. There is a security risk, drug trafficking. They all look alike cement walls with chain link fences. Automobile garages in the middle of housing projects always spells trouble
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 8 months ago
Rick, It's a hosing project..all I can see is another Columbia Point on the way! The garages will eventually have to be shut down. Again, it's not Admiral's Hill. It's a housing project and I'd bet they'd be drugs, theft, and the garages will need to be shut down. I doubt if the whole project will have resident parking stickers..lol..hence, the on street parking will be open to everyone. All the grand planning $$$ is for show! Two years into the "project" all these proposed plans; garages, stores, youth center, employment office, skills center, all this helps the developers raise more money for the construction of the project. Once it's built all that extra stuff shuts down do to: crime, lack of money, safety, not cost effective and subsequently you're left with a "housing project", nothing more! Once again, Mayor Walsh was the head of the labor unions. The laborer's voted him into office. The demolition/reconstruction of MEM is the Mayor's way of saying thank you. Giving them work/jobs.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 8 months ago
Anne you missed the point. The MEM housing is being torn down, unnecessarily and re-built. It's so solid it's a monument! This is allowing Mayor Walsh an opportunity to thank the union men who voted him into office. The Mayor was once the head of the construction unions. This favor of being paid back is causing you and another 1026 tenants to be displaced.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 8 months ago
Anne, you missed the point! Mayor Walsh was the former head of the unions. The unions campaigned for him. Now, as Mayor he owes the unions a big favor. Work! So Walsh is giving the unions WORK! The work /gift he is giving them is the demolition / reconstruction of a housing project which is totally unnecessary. So at the expense of 1027 tenants he now has an opportunity to say thank you to the unions.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 8 months ago
This entire demolition - reconstruction of the MEM project is a thank you to the labor unions by Mayor Walsh. Walsh was the head of the Unions before becoming mayor. The unions voted him in. Walsh is now saying thank you by giving the unions "work". Of course Winn is tickled to death to get the project $$$$$. There isn't any thing wrong with that project, it's as solid as the Roman Colosseum, town houses included. The only excuse they have is the project is 80 years old!! That project could never be rebuilt the way it was built back in 32. Winn is noted for its popcorn architecture.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 9 months ago
Mayor Walsh before becoming mayor was the head of the construction unions. This whole demolition and reconstruction is a thank to the unions from the mayor. Does it really need to happen? Of course not. Just because the development is 80 years old? The current project was built like the Roman Colosseum!! Winn has been building housing all over the county...it's popcorn architecture. I'm sure Winn is happy with Walsh's decision. Sadly, most tenants are just followers....it's like they have no say. And they don't
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Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 10 months ago
Anne Rheault
Is the Building going up on O'Conner Way For The Seniors that are already living in The Mary Ellen McCormick ? I would Love to know , since Ive been waiting for a first floor apartment for over 3 years now or a Building with a Elevator ? I would love to stay if it is . I am almost 60 years of age and I am on the 3rd floor and I am suffering from COPD which is a Lung Disorder which I am on Oxygen for and it heavy to carry . So Carrying up all these stairs , So it stops me from going outside my apartment , Except to get to a doctor appointment and I have a wait to my transportation ... I would love to see a place that is for Over 60 ONLY ! Thank You
Is the Building going up on O'Conner Way For The Seniors that are already living in The Mary Ellen McCormick ? I would Love to know , since Ive been waiting for a first floor apartment for over 3 years now or a Building with a Elevator ? I would love to stay if it is . I am almost 60 years of age and I am on the 3rd floor and I am suffering from COPD which is a Lung Disorder which I am on Oxygen for and it heavy to carry . So Carrying up all these stairs , So it stops me from going outside my apartment , Except to get to a doctor appointment and I have a wait to my transportation ... I would love to see a place that is for Over 60 ONLY ! Thank You
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
3 years, 10 months ago
First and foremost the redevelopment is a thank you from Mayor Walsh to all the construction unions...Walsh is the former head of the unions. He'll be putting hundreds of men to work. The current development is solid. Because it's nearly 80 years old is not excuse enough to tear it all down. The row houses are solid brick, with a solid foundation. Winn can be seen all over the country scooping up properties and redeveloping everywhere. The buildings look great from the outside, inside their popcorn architecture couldn't come close to the construction and engineering seen in the current McCormack housing development. All these amenities they are promising, time will tell, are just peace offerings to make the whole uprising of families less stressful and angry.....all these promises and suggestions will come up against budget cuts, lack of personnel....a supermarket and mall type stores bring in an unsavory outside element, cars and congestion. We got away from all that when they tore down the Columbia Point project and the adjacent Bay Side Mall. I lived in a row house on O'Callaghan Way for 35 years....it's a shame this is happening.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 1 month ago
OK, You're building a 3000 unit complex, but you're building a shopping center smaller than South Bay?! You're also inviting other South Boston neighbors and surrounding communities......all emerging at anyone time on this "one cafe", "one sandwich shop mall"! Who at Winn is doing the logistics? It all sounds like frosting on a gullible cake!!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 1 month ago
Winn is making you all feel that the 80,000 sq ft of retail space is just for the new development........In all reality all of South Boston/Dorchester will be shopping there....the retailers are going to love it!! People in the new development will be plagued by traffic in and out, congestion....it will be like going to a Walmart. In all reality there is nothing wrong with the current buildings and row houses. The construction unions/laborers will make tons of money on this travesty.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 4 months ago
Your going to be offered a lot; child care, work training, classes, and the list goes on........they might be in operation the day the project opens....but you can rest assure with lack of training, budget cuts, government funding these extras will fall by the way side, In five years the project will look like plywood ranch. The 80,000 sq ft of retail space you all will be in constant competition with hundreds of people from outside the project. Competing for parking spaces from people outside the community that want to shop there is going to cause havoc.
The streets will always have traffic and the stores will always be overcrowded.. You won't be able to say "this is just for us".....there will be hoards of taxis cabs bringing people home from the project's supermarket,as well as, taking people home from outside the facility. All of this will cause quite a bit of congestion and exhaust. The project will be anything but quiet!! There pushing diversity down your throats.......Mary Ellen McCormick was all white till 1984, I remember the day when you sleep with the door unlocked. That's all I'll say about that!! SAD
The streets will always have traffic and the stores will always be overcrowded.. You won't be able to say "this is just for us".....there will be hoards of taxis cabs bringing people home from the project's supermarket,as well as, taking people home from outside the facility. All of this will cause quite a bit of congestion and exhaust. The project will be anything but quiet!! There pushing diversity down your throats.......Mary Ellen McCormick was all white till 1984, I remember the day when you sleep with the door unlocked. That's all I'll say about that!! SAD
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 4 months ago
I'm 70 and used to lived in Mary Ellen McCormick when its original name was Old Harbor Village. We (family) lived in a 5.5 room single family home on O'Callaghan Way for 42 years. There is nothing wrong with those building; so what if there 80 years old. Building was different back then.....and I seriously doubt the new buildings will hold as long as 80 yrs. The're promising you people a lot, child care, job search, community centers and the list goes on...........A year or two down the road they either will have a shortage in personal, a money problem, basically a reason to stop programs that people just aren't interested in. For the elderly folks, of course, they're scare....they are too weak to pack and being on SS they can't afford to move. I have yet to read where Boston Housing Authority will get moving facilitators into some of these elderly apartments, supply them with boxes, help them pack, call a truck and pay for their move. People have waited years to get into a town house, now there out the door with no guarantee of having the same type house again..
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 4 months ago
Sounds great!! But it's still a 3000 unit housing project/development. It sounds like a glorified "Columbia Point" you're pushing income diversity as a way of camouflaging what can only be described as a polished ghetto. Sad
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 4 months ago
80,000 sq. ft. retail space. I think you should be asking people "outside' the community. Why? Because everyone and his mother are going to be in and out of the supermarket and other stores encompassing the 80,000 sq feet. I hope you all realize the day to day parking, of those not from the community, is going to be horrendous. You make it sound like every day in the community is going to be wonderful, and I seriously have my doubts.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 5 months ago
First of all it's a shame those buildings are coming down. I lived with family in one of the row houses for 35 years!! Those homes are in beautiful condition. Going from 1027 units to 3000 units we are looking at another Columbia Point...the congestion/traffic/parking not to mention the 80,000 sq.ft of retail space where everyone and his mother from outside the development will be shopping will be a daily mess to deal with. All those beautiful trees will be coming down all for the sake of putting a buck in someone's pocket!
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Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 6 months ago
Lauren SY
I also live in a townhouse and I lived in the buildings for many years before I was picked from a lottery to get in a townhouse. I was told at one of the meetings that your not guaranteed to get a townhouse again because there are other people who are on the waiting list!! I already waited for my place in the townhouse so why do I have to be put back into a building and be placed on the waiting list for a town house again??? I did my time in the buildings and did my part I waiting for my townhouse. So how will you be selecting who gets the town houses????
I also live in a townhouse and I lived in the buildings for many years before I was picked from a lottery to get in a townhouse. I was told at one of the meetings that your not guaranteed to get a townhouse again because there are other people who are on the waiting list!! I already waited for my place in the townhouse so why do I have to be put back into a building and be placed on the waiting list for a town house again??? I did my time in the buildings and did my part I waiting for my townhouse. So how will you be selecting who gets the town houses????
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 6 months ago
With 3000 units you can expect a jungle atmosphere nowhere near the "old neighborhood lets sit on the stoop" community! Thousands of kids, people from outside the project shopping at the 80,000sq ft shopping mall, traffic in and out, people fighting for parking spaces during the winter. Noise everywhere!! Good luck in finding a stoop!!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 6 months ago
I read your intro paragraph. It says providing 1016 units, there are approx 1016 units now. I recently read where the new development will have 3000 units!! Which is it? Confusing!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 7 months ago
We don't need a mega housing project in Boston! We need smaller and more community like projects. With 3000 units, I see drugs, crime, inability to keep up maintenance. Winn is known for their "popcorn architecture" buildings "shorty materials" will never last 80 years!! It's a shame the row houses will be leveled! Lived in one for 42 years!!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 7 months ago
Like McCormick with it's nursery school, playrooms, home economics (cooking and washing) facilities in the basements.......the new project will start off with all this grandeur and soon problems will arise and they'll be shut down. Going from 1027 to 3000units....they're building a massive housing project which will have tremendous safety issues....the logistics is just so wrong!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 7 months ago
I grew up in the McCormick housing, row house. I understand that all the buildings and row houses will be demolished making way for a 3000 unit complex. The current housing project is solid there's nothing wrong with the buildings/row houses. They'll be tearing down 1027 units to make way for a hugh/mega project. The extras promised in the new project design may or may not appear when the complex opens. Winn Management is building everywhere. All I and others see is "popcorn architecture" everywhere. The current project was built with the best of materials at it's time and has stood like a rock for 80 years!! A 3000 unit housing project, and all the problems it's going to bring, is the last thing Boston needs.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 9 months ago
I thought after the demolition of Columbia Point housing project, the building of a huge monstrous housing development, you're intending on building, would not happen again. There's nothing special/quaint about 3000ppl cramped in a space originally designed for a little over 1000.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 9 months ago
Middle-income housing!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 9 months ago
Just because it's 80 years old does't mean it has to be demolished.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 9 months ago
When the development opened in 1936 many community resources were available.....the basements of most buildings housed playrooms, cooking classes, washing machines, after school rooms for children's activities....all of which became neglected through the years and now completely shut down....take a look at what went wrong before you rebuild!! The row houses are solid, lived in on for 25 years!! The project is 80 years old the best of materials were used and people had pride in its upkeep!!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 9 months ago
Open space/lawns!
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 9 months ago
Leave the row houses in tact, there foundation is solid.....don't make the redevelopment another overcrowded development with mistakes learned 20 years hence.
Commented on Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment
4 years, 9 months ago
Leave the townhouses alone!!!!