<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=47f2OB_0vmJrTQ300" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=47f2OB_0vmJrTQ300" width="630" height="303" ></figure>A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and the neighboring Acme auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain.The filing, by Joe Hassell's Boston Real Estate Capital, says 51 apartments - 20% of the total - would be rented as affordable, to people making no more than 70% of the Boston area median income. The plans, submitted to the Boston Planning Department this week, also call for ground-floor retail space in the two buildings and a total of 142 parking spaces in garages on the 1.5 acres of land.<blockquote>The proposed development at 3430 &amp; 3440 Washington Street will introduce much needed housing to a transit-oriented site, in an architectural form that comports with its historic context while expressing a modern architectural language. The project has been designed to celebrate the history and surrounding context, while at the same time providing a new face to the neighborhood. The project sites are primarily surrounded by residential neighborhoods to the East and South, with commercial and industrial uses to the North and West, mainly along Washington Street. There are also several similarly scaled residential and mixed /use projects that have been recently constructed or approved by the BPDA, both to the North and the South of the overall site, along Washington Street.</blockquote>According to Hassell's traffic consultant, the new buildings will generate a bit less daily traffic than the current gas station and auto-body shop, which also has an impound lot. The plans call for indoor storage for 256 bicycles and outdoor racks for pedaling visitors.Hassell hopes to begin two years of demolition, site cleanup and construction towards the end of 2025.Hatoff's and its big-headed little hat-doffer has been around for decades. Morris Hatoff opened a gas station near the old Forest Hills elevated stop in 1929. In 1980, his son Stan, who declared that "gas is gas," moved the station up Washington Street when the state took over the Forest Hills land by eminent domain.1941 Hatoff's ad featuring the little man with the big head doffing his hat (source):3430-3440 Washington St. filings and meeting/comment schedule.</div></body>

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A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and the neighboring Acme auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. The filing, by Joe Hassell's Boston Real Estate Capital, says...