Developers present 255-unit Thompson Point apartment plan at Planning Board workshop

Developers and city staff on Jan. 14 presented an introductory review of a proposed 255-unit market-rate apartment building at 125 Thompson Point Road, sparking board questions about parking, campus traffic-management, floodplain risk and how the project will meet ground-floor and streetscape design standards.

The Planning Board heard a staff overview that the parcel is in the B5 Urban Commercial Mixed Use zone and that the development is reviewed under the rules that were in place when the site’s master development plan (MDP) was first approved on March 11, 2014. Staff said the application is a Level 3 site plan and a subdivision amendment and noted that pending-proceeding status preserves the regulations in place at the time of that MDP approval.

Why this matters: the Thompson Point campus is a high-profile waterfront area where new housing, a recently approved hotel and cultural uses already on the master plan mean changes to one parcel can affect trail connections, neighborhood circulation and the campuswide Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program the city uses to manage traffic impacts across multiple projects.

The applicant team…