Building with 108 apartments eyed for growing ‘Green District’ near Allston, Brookline border

By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent

A development company is seeking city approval to build a 108-unit apartment building in Allston along the same block of Brainerd Road where the company opened a 100-unit apartment building in the summer and recently began construction on another 79-unit complex.

About half of the units would be studios and the rest would be one-bedroom apartments, said company founder and chairman Bruce Percelay. He said there would also be a roof-top fitness center that connects to an outdoor roof patio, "so you can work out and then chill out."

The building would span two parcels at 75 Brainerd Road and 10 Redford St., which together comprise just over a half acre. The properties have housed a single-story warehouse building, which was recently razed, and an auto repair shop, which will soon be torn down.

State records show the developer bought the Brainerd Road property for $2.5 million in July. Percelay declined to say how much the company will spend to buy the Redford Street property or how much the project would cost.

He noted that the final plans for the project are subject to approval, and thus there is potential for change.

"This plan is our intention, but we're still awaiting city and neighborhood approval," Percelay said.

The proposed building would join a two-block area that the prominent Back Bay-based real estate company recently dubbed the Green District.

The company has taken an environmentally-friendly focus at several apartment buildings it owns and leases there, including at two new developments one of which achieved LEED Silver status and the other LEED Gold.

Percelay said the proposed project at 75 Brainerd Road hopes to achieve the highest energy efficient rating of LEED Platinum.

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Building with 108 apartments eyed for growing 'Green District' near Allston, Brookline border