ACDC Presents Vision for Parcel 24

Parcel 24, LLC (a joint venture of ACDC and New Boston Development Partners) has been designated by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) as the developer of a mixed-income community with 325 affordable and market rate residential units that will provide much needed community housing while restoring the fabric of the neighborhood which existed on Hudson Street over forty years ago.  The partners’ proposal is based on the Community Vision for Parcel 24, which was developed by the Hudson Street for Chinatown (HSC) coalition, a working group of residents, former residents, and Chinatown-based community agencies, over a three-year period.  The community's Vision was reflected in the Request for Proposals (RFP) prepared by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and the Boston Redevelopment Authority. 

ACDC sought out community involvement throughout the design process through meetings and design charettes to come up with a design that meets the needs of the Chinatown neighborhood.  Our proposal responds to the RFP and the Community Vision by including a goal of 50% affordable housing, publicly accessible open space, roof-top resident gardens, community space, ground floor commercial space, and underground parking- all incorporated into a neighborhood-sensitive, environmentally sustainable design.

The Development Team

ACDC and NBDP and their respective staffs and consultants have successfully completed thousands of units of high-rise and affordable housing in the Greater Boston area and beyond.  ACDC and NBDP have both successfully taken complex, mixed-use development proposals through multi-agency, multiple stakeholder public approval processes.  ACDC recently completed The Metropolitan, a groundbreaking 251-unit mixed-income, mixed-use project with a for-profit partner.  NBDP recently completed One Brigham Circle, an award-winning mixed-use commercial development in partnership with Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services, and also Weston Office Park on Massachusetts Turnpike Authority land.  NBDP will bring the equity capital necessary to expeditiously bring the project to construction and the depth of development expertise to complete construction on time and to the highest standards.  

Goody Clancy, the project architect, has designed award winning affordable, mixed-use and mixed-income urban housing developments since 1955.  The firm has a staff of 115 architects, planners, and urban designers.  Their work on “A Civic Vision for Turnpike air Rights” won an outstanding planning award from the American Institute of Architects and a national AIA Honor Award.  Goody Clancy designs incorporate green/sustainable practices and 65% of their staff are LEED accredited.

Building Design

The design of the building articulates a large-scale apartment building at the Kneeland Street or northern end of the site and steps down to smaller and sensitively scaled townhouses at the southern end of the site.  The building is 20 stories on the Kneeland Street end, creating a graceful monument at the end of the Rose Kennedy Greenway and approximating the scale of buildings on Kneeland Street.  Four-story townhouses accessed by small front stoops relate to historic row houses on the southern end of Hudson Street.  Between the two ends of the building, at the intersection of the new South Station connector and Albany Street, a terraced open space bisects the site and provides green space and pedestrian access from Albany Street to Hudson Street below.  Commercial space is located along Kneeland Street and wraps around the corners of Hudson and Albany street, and the ground floor levels along the edges of the open space are designated as community spaces.  The remaining ground floor levels along Hudson Street are three-story townhouses at the northern end and four-story townhouses to the south with entries opening directly on to Hudson Street.  Approximately 165 parking spaces are located beneath the building.  This context-creating design buffers the lower scale townhouse of residential Chinatown against the reconfigured highways, future development on the Chinatown Gateway/South Bay parcels and the ever-busy Kneeland Street commercial corridor.  The building design will incorporate principles of sustainable design which promise to keep utilities and maintenance costs low for all residents well into the future.

Contact Information

For further inquiries, please contact Alex Zhang, Community Organizer, at (617) 482-2380 ext. 208 or e-mail parcel24@asiancdc.org.

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