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Forget student housing and astronomically priced on-campus housing!  Now you have developers building for this booming crowd.  Developer Bob Fox has recently completed Park 461 (Located at 461 Park Drive in the Fenway), which is 21 units all studio condominium development.

Right down the street from Boston University, Park 461 features well-appointed studios with bamboo wood floors, granite counters, stainless-steel appliances and individual heating/AC units.

The units at 461 Park Drive range in size from 311 square feet to 463 square feet, with prices ranging from $239,000 to $349,000.

“It’s a good deal for parents,” said Fox. “With room and board approaching $12,000 a year, the costs over four years are comparable.”

Rocco Marino of Providence, R.I., bought a unit at Park 461 for his son, a junior at Boston University.  Continued… (Boston Herald)

Fox is a well known local developer who has always developed luxury product in Chestnut Hill and the metro west.  Now with Park 461 and popular Audubon Park, Fox plans to cater to the booming urban marketplace here in Boston.

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Need a little more room than these spacious studios?  Check out Audubon Park or other Fenway Condos.

Last week we wrote about this hip luxury studio new development, well right around the corner is another new luxury condominium development called Audubon Park.

Audubon Park is located at 16 Miner street. Located in the West Fenway neighborhood at Beacon and Miner Streets, at Audubon Circle, this new (ground up) construction, 6-story building will offer 53 urban contemporary style residences conveniently located within walking distance to Kenmore Squares newest attractions, and the Longwood Medical area, located outside Back Bay. Audubon Park is now complete and ready for those looking to live in this new vibrant neighborhood in Fenway.

Below are the Audubon Park units listed in the Boston MLS:

$814,000, 2 Bd, 2 Ba, 1108
$785,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 1033
$775,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 1050
$706,000, 2 Bd, 2 Ba, 1000
$689,000, 2 Bd, 2 Ba, 1000
$689,000, 2 Bd, 2 Ba, 1108
$689,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 1088
$656,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 965
$649,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 1009
$625,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 965
$615,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 1050
$605,000, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 755
$599,000, 2 Bd, 1 Ba, 1055
$599,000, 2 Bd, 2 Ba, 1065
$509,000, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 723
$475,000, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 755
$379,000, 1 Bd, 1 Ba, 670

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Lots of interest lately on Boston Studios for sale. Just this week we have got three calls and started on the hunt for Boston studios for our clients. There are some pretty neat studios out there, but by far the hippest studios we found were at 461 Park.

Located in the West Fenway at the corner of Park Drive at Beacon Street in Audubon Circle, this new construction, 5-story building offers 18 studio residences conveniently located on the MBTA Green Line and is steps to Kenmore Square, Fenway Park, Boston University, the Longwood Medical Area and Boston’s Emerald Necklace.

Audubon Circle is an extension of the Back Bay Residential District and is home to many architecturally significant buildings. This rich heritage of architectural design is complimented by a new state of the art residential building offering an affordable choice in luxury new construction.

Park 451 currently has 5 listings on MLS for sale.

They range from a $299,000 463 Sq/Ft studio to to $339,000.

The MLS listings are below:

$339,000, N/A, 1 Ba, 463
$329,000, N/A, 1 Ba, 382
$319,000, N/A, 1 Ba, 382
$299,000, N/A, 1 Ba, 340
$299,000, N/A, 1 Ba, 463

For unit layouts & floor plans you can visit them on the Park 461 website here.

The listing broker for 461 Park is Michael J. Grappo .

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The neighborhood around Fenway would get a major overhaul under development plans filed yesterday at City Hall.

The proposed One Kenmore project calls for 1.3 million square feet of new apartments, shops and parking around a rebuilt Yawkey rail and bus station next door to Fenway Park.

The plan is the brainchild of Newton housing builder John Rosenthal, who has teamed up with the owners of the Red Sox in a bid to redevelop the neighborhood around Fenway.

He told the city he now wants to build almost 340,000 square feet of office space plus 100,000 square feet of retail shops and restaurants – and only 282 residences. Condos or rental apartments – that too will be determined by the market, but later, Rosenthal said yesterday.

The architect is Carlos Zapata Studios of New York.

Rosenthal’s project has evolved from the idea of a hotel and entertainment complex 10 years ago, to a $300 million complex with 29- and 23-story residential towers in 2003, to a more modest proposal that in recent iterations has been well received by the community and the powerful neighboring Boston Red Sox organization.

The complex, which will deck over the nearby Massachusetts Turnpike, includes 282 housing units, 28 of then affordable set-asides. Rosenthal has also agreed to pay for the construction of 14 additional affordable units off site. Continued…

600+ Residential Units

1360 Parking Spots

One Kenmore will connect the Back Bay to Fenway…a great addition to the downtown Boston Condo marketplace!

Boston, West Fenway, Massachusetts, January 14, 2008 - FENWEST, a new construction mid-rise, nine unit, residential condominium building, located at 126 Jersey Street in the West Fenway section of Boston, is pleased to announce their first closing on December 21, 2007.  The unit which sold at $950,000 is a two bedroom, two bath penthouse.
The remaining units are ready for immediate occupancy and include a studio unit featuring 125 square feet of private use patio space, offered at $295,000., six one bedroom / one bath style units starting at $450,000., and a two bedroom / two bath penthouse, with 325 square feet of private roof deck space.
All of the units include such features as hardwood flooring, crown and finish moldings, well designed kitchens with granite countertops and stainless appliances (including a trash compactor, dishwasher, garbage disposal, built in micro waves and gas stoves), in unit stackable washer and dryer hookups, separate utilities for the gas heating system, air conditioning and electric, and in unit security systems.   Direct access garage parking is also available at an additional cost.

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The $400 million residential and retail development over the Massachusetts Turnpike between Kenmore Square and Fenway Park has scaled back on total number of condo units.

The original plans included 688 residences, which was cut to 353 in August of this year. In the newest plans, a 264 residences will be constructed as part of a 1.29 million-square-foot village over the Massachusetts Turnpike between Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue. In this new version, One Kenmore will include three buildings totaling 7, 13 and 17 stories. The project will include 350,000 square feet of commercial space and 1,360 parking spaces.

According to Banker & Tradesman:

… One Kenmore, the long-delayed $450 million urban village in Kenmore Square that would connect Boston’s Fenway and Audubon Circle neighborhoods, has shrunk to accommodate the new reality [of a slower real estate market].

Under the latest version, 264 apartment or condominium units will be built as part of a 1.29 million-square-foot mini-city over the Massachusetts Turnpike between Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue.

This is not the first time the project’s housing units has been trimmed. In January, the plan included 688 residential units. But by August, as home sales in the Bay State continued to plummet, the number was trimmed to 353.

More on One Kenmore Condos comings soon!