01.31.2007 Monthly Meeting Minutes

January 31, 2007, 7:30 p.m. The neighborhood meeting was held at the Susan Bailis Center , Mass Avenue at St. Botolph,   
About 35 people attended this important update to the 99 St. Botolph B&B project and the Safety/Crime information panel presentation.
Vice President Chris Coffin called the meeting to order at 7:40 by thanking the Bailis Center for their gracious room and refreshment hospitality.

Three representatives from the 99 St. Botolph Project made presentations: 
Keith Beardsley of Heath Properties, a Boston-based developer of extended-stay residential hotels.
Fred Schultz, S&E Construction

Patrick Sharkey, Architect
The goal of the project is to restore and complete this historic site at the corner of West Newton Street with a 15-suite complex.  All permits have been obtained and construction, which will be completed in November, has started.  There will be a 10’ landscaped set back that will include new fencing.  The cellar stairs fronting on West Newton will be removed, and a caretaker’s apartment created in the basement with light from window wells. Piles for the filled-in section of the building will be drilled and completed in February.  Monthly rates might be between $2&3K.  Valet, but no on-site, parking will be available.  The name of the residence has not yet been established.

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