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Check out Lofts Avana - they are offering a 1 Year Investor Rent Guarantee!!!

Open House Today:  1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - 46 Beach Street, Boston, MA

Lofts Avana is a 2008 converted luxury condo, located in Downtown & Chinatown area, walk to T, Theatre District, RT 90 and 93 few blocks away.   Lofts Avana is totally renovated with Hi-ceiling, huge windows, solid wood floor, natural maple cabinets, granite countertops, GE profile appliances, intercom w/cable TV monitor, washer/dryer hook-up, and unit can be upgraded into two bedrooms.

Units available, starting price $388,000.

Promotion, 5 Yr condo value protection plan

1 Yr investor rent guarantee

Lofts Avana Units For Sale:

$533,880, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 849
$506,880, 1 Bd, 2 Ba, 872
$412,880, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 764
$388,000, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 696

Open House Today:  1:00 PM to 4:00 PM 

Our friends over at the Chinatown Blog aren’t too happy with what is proposed for the Dainty Dot development.  Even though the rendering is horrible, I think I like it AS LONG as they keep that gorgeous Dainty Dot facade too!

We need height here to create density which will provide stronger roots and growth on the street for retail, restaurant (city life) and businesses.

Dainty Dot developers - we need to get a better rendering though.

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Project Proponent: Parcel 24, LLC, a joint venture of Asian Community Development Corporation and New Boston Development Partners

Project Description:
Parcel 24, LLC, a joint venture of Asian Community Development Corporation and New Boston Development Partners, proposes a new construction of approximately 325 residential units, approximately 5,500 SF of commercial/ retail space, approximately 6,000 SF community space, 165 parking spaces, and related site improvements on Parcel 24, an approximately 58,000 SF vacant lot bounded by Hudson Street to the east, Kneeland Street to the north, and Albany Street to the west in Chinatown. The total gross square footage of the Proposed Project is approximately 435,800 SF.

Meeting Date/ Place:
Thursday, March 13, 2008
6:00-8:00 PM
Doubletree Hotel, Cherry Blossom Room
821 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111

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Lofts Avana has been on the market a little while now and they are finally just over 50% sold. We have blogged about Lofts Avana and their slick interiors, however we have yet to actually get over there and check them out. Anyone visit Lofts Avana recently? Anyway, we will make time to get over there this week and give you a status update.

Lofts Avana units remaining range from $399,000 (1 bed) to a $599,000 top floor (2 bed).

Buyers who reserve units before March 15 will also receive a $3,000 perk: Free furnishings or a year’s free parking at a nearby garage.

hose who purchase units on the building’s top two floors will also get a second freebie: A premium-upgrade package that normally costs $25,000. This package includes maple paneling and floors, custom window trim, granite-topped window sills, built-in shelving and a triple medicine cabinet.

Originally a garment-industry building, 46 Beach St. served for years as a food court filled with a variety of Asian eateries.

More on Lofts Avana later this week.

Lofts Avana Units Listed In MLS:
$533,880, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 849
$506,880, 1 Bd, 2 Ba, 872
$495,880, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 849
$412,880, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 764
$399,880, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 696

Also, if you like this location you may want to check out The Metropolitan which is a neighboring luxury condo development.

Ok, I have been passionately searching the market for one of my clients for the ultimate Boston Loft. We are pretty open to location and parking situation (as long as it is somewhat convenient), however I do need the following.

- Volume and lots of it.
- Bright light and open space
- True loft feel, brick and beam, high ceiling height, etc
- Private outdoor space (roof deck, etc) and lots of it

Ideally, we are looking for approximately 2,000 sq/ft and up. It could be a completely built out 2+ bedroom or a raw space in which we can convert into the ultimate New York style loft condominium. We know the product exists here in Boston, but is very rare to find.

Our price point for this gorgeous Boston Loft would ideally be at or below $1M but would love to hear and see any Boston Loft property that would fit this description.

Whether your Boston Loft is on the market or not or you are a Boston Real Estate listing agent and you know of such a Boston Loft, please contact me direct.

Thank you,

Tony Longo
Anthony @ condoDomain.com / 617-314-7704

One of my favorite Boston neighborhoods and a booming Boston Real Estate neighborhood is our very own Chinatown.

The empty lots, the tangle of highways above and below ground, and the power plant may not look like much. But everyone agrees it’s prime real estate.

Residents of Chinatown next door see the 20 acres – called the “Chinatown Gateway” on zoning maps – as their best chance to develop much-needed affordable housing and alleviate a severe housing crunch.

But the city’s redevelopment authority has dubbed the area “South Bay” and envisions a new downtown district with upscale apartments, hotels, and offices.

This struggle in Boston is the latest in a land squeeze that is changing the nature of Chinatowns across the United States. As America’s downtowns become hip again, urban real estate is becoming so valuable that ethnic enclaves find it increasingly difficult to survive as the first stop for new immigrants, usually with few skills and no English.

Once a fixture in most major US cities, many Chinatowns have ceased to exist as magnets for new arrivals. San Diego’s Chinatown is now a historic district. A coalition in Phoenix is trying to save the last remaining Chinatown structure from becoming a luxury apartment building. Four of the enclaves in the 10 largest cities – in Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia – are now commercial areas. Dallas, which never had a historic Chinatown, designated a retail center as “Chinatown” in the 1980s. Other Chinatowns in Seattle, Detroit, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., are today primarily tourist spots. Continue…