Thursday, August 9, 2012
Prospective buyers would turn the hotel into a high-end apartment building for short-term rentals.
If all goes as planned, Charles Street Inn will be no more as of the end of the year. Owner Louise Vendon said that she is selling the 94 Charles St. property because she would like to spend more time with her partner in Provincetown. She has prospective buyers in Brent Berc and Will Avanessian, who together compromise Boston Real Estate Collaborative, a company that owns several apartment buildings in the city. The sale is conditional on the buyers getting zoning approval to turn the 10-room inn into a building with nine apartments available for short-term rental. Although the inside of the building would be altered, the buyers said they would try to preserve as much detailing as possible and would not change the exterior of the building…
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
The inn's owners will appear before the neighborhood's zoning board tonight.
Charles Street Inn is still open to guests but its owners are looking to change the historic structure back to an older use as an apartment building. Louise Venden and Sally Deane, the owners, are looking to sell the building and the prospective buyers will go before the Beacon Hill Civic Association's Zoning and Licensing Committee tonight to present their plans to change the inn to a high-end, furnished, short-term apartment rentals. "We operate almost exactly as every other apartment building would, with the exception of the duration of our leases, which are 9 times out of 10 for periods of less than a year, and the fact that we provide furnishings," the applicants wrote in a statement to the committee. The rentals would target MGH …
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Opposing parties asked to smooth over differences before project comes before the committee a third time.
After a second appearance before the neighborhood's zoning committee, it appears the project at 12 Louisburg Square still is not ready for a vote. Thomas Frank, the property owner, appeared before the Beacon Hill Civic Association's Zoning and Licensing Committee on June 6 to get approval to expand a dormer, enlarge a bay window and add a 26-foot-long roof deck to the rear of his building. But in light of neighbor's concerns, two of whom are represented by their own lawyers, the committee tabled the vote to give the parties another month to work out their differences. As of this month's meeting, on Tuesday night, those differences had not yet been sufficiently ironed out. Although some features of Frank's plan had been scaled back, the …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The city's zoning board ruled against the applicants today.
The city's zoning board decided today to oppose a request by the owners of 12 Grove St. that would have allowed Villa Mexico Cafe to relocate there from Grampy's gas station on Cambridge Street. The ruling ends the restaurant's effort to open on Grove Street. "Zoning forbids this use. It’s not a personal thing," Robert Shortsleeve, the chairman of the city board, said. The space lies in a zone in which properties revert to residential use if they have not been housing a business for more than two years. This address has not been in commercial use for at least 15 years. The owner of Villa Mexico Cafe, Julie King, was asking for a variance to this statute. But opponents to the application said that a restaurant at 12 Grove St. would …
After months of trying to gain the support and funds needed to move, the restaurant's owners will appear before the city's zoning board this morning.
After last month's attempt to connect with Grove Street residents fell through, the owners of Villa Mexico Cafe are going before the city's zoning board this morning for the final hearing on whether they will be allowed to move their business from Grampy's gas station on Cambridge Street to 12 Grove St. The restaurant must leave the gas station as it is slated to be redeveloped this summer into office buildings. Although they originally were going to leave in December, they have been allowed to stay in the gas station as they search for a new home. The new location the owners of Villa Mexico, Julie and Bessie King, very much want is a spot on the ground floor of 12 Grove St., which is being offered to them at an affordable rent. But …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The cafe's owners are hoping to iron out any concerns Grove Street neighbors might have before the zoning board meeting March 27.
Although Villa Mexico didn't get the neighborhood's zoning committee approval to move their restaurant to 12 Grove St., the owners are hopeful that with the support of the neighbors they will be able to do so. Julie King, who owns the cafe and runs it with her daughter, Bessie, sent out a flyer two weeks ago to Grove Street residents, asking them to meet with her March 21 at 6:30 p.m. at her restaurant in Grampy's gas station, at 290 Cambridge St., to discuss any concerns they have about her business. "As a business owner who has operated in Beacon Hill for more than five (5) years, I am mindful of the concerns of my neighbors. I will do everything to ensure that the impacts associated with operating 12 Grove Street are less than what has …
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The civic association will be running a shuttle to the zoning board meeting Tuesday.
The movement on Beacon Hill to oppose Capital One Bank's attempt to move into the spot that now houses Charles Street Market is picking up steam. Nearly every storefront on Charles Street has posted a flyer asking residents and shopkeepers to come to the city's zoning board meeting next Tuesday to show solidarity against the bank's request for the zoning variance it needs to open at 62-66 Charles St. "We as a neighborhood must prove to the Board of Appeal that operating a bank at that location is detrimental to the neighborhood. It is important that as many of us as possible attend the hearing. Please make every effort to join us as we stand together to oppose the change in use," the flyer reads. Wednesday the Beacon Hill Civic Association…
Friday, January 13, 2012
The Beacon Hill Civic Association and a separate petition both ask for the neighborhood's help to stop the move.
A number of efforts are under way on Beacon Hill to thwart Capital One Bank's attempt to move into the location now occupied by Charles Street Market. In in email sent to members Friday afternoon, the Beacon Hill Civic Association asked the neighborhood to stand together to oppose an attempt by New Hampshire-based Linear Retail to install a Capital One Bank in the property it now leases to Charles Street Market, also known as the former 7-Eleven. "The Board is committed to maintaining a vibrant and diverse business community made up primarily of non-franchised, locally owned businesses that meet residents' needs on Beacon Hill ... We ask for your help," the email reads. On Jan. 9 the BHCA board of directors unanimously voted to oppose the…
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Board voted against plan to move Capital One into 62-66 Charles, supports proposal to make all first floor commercial zoning conditional.
Showing a strong allegiance to its residents and local businesses, the Beacon Hill Civic Association unanimously passed two motions designed to control commercial growth along Charles and Cambridge streets. The votes were made at Monday night’s meeting, the board's first of 2012. Zoning and Licensing Committee co-chair Tom Clemens spent the first half of his report discussing the ongoing battle over a Capital One bank moving into 62-66 Charles St.—a storefront occupied by the popular Charles Street Market. In order to move in, Linear Realty Properties applied for a “change of conditional use” permit, which would reclassify the location from a convenience store to bank. “There was a high level of support—and virtually unanimous support from…
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The legislation is meant to protect public parks, but could be detrimental to future development, opponents said.
Representatives from labor unions, colleges and the business community were among those who spoke against the so called "shadow bill" meant to protect sunlight in public parks, saying it would wind up prohibiting development in the city during a legislative hearing Tuesday at the State House. "Bill H.1169 would effectively kill most development in the central city for the foreseeable future," said Stuart Street resident Greg Selkoe, a board member of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. Legislators did not vote during the hearing Tuesday morning at the State House, and the bill is pending in the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. Proposed by Reps. Marty Walz and Byron Rushing, the bill would prohibit shadows …
Michael Boutin
7:55 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012
Its about time for this place to go its employeys are crooks and not loyal to there customers. I found a cockroach in a buritto I ordered there recently grossest thing I ever had. Not even close to real mexican food. Let's finally get this garbage out of beacon hill. more ›