
Rendering by Sousa Design Architects.
A Roslindale developer has filed plans for a four-story, 46-unit apartment building at 586 Canterbury St. next to the ScrubaDub, the Rozzie apartment building and the brook that runs along American Legion Highway.
Aponte Development plans also call for 32 parking spaces, enough room to store one bicycle per apartment, plus eight visitor bikes, a gym, a conference room and "study pods."
Aponte bought the three parcels that make up the porkchop-shaped one-acre lot for $1.4 million last March from the St. Michael Cemetery Corp. and the Italian Catholic Cemetery Association.
The company goes before the Boston Conservation Commission on Thursday because Canterbury Brook flows through the American Legion side of the property.
Aponte's proposal says it will not disturb the brook: The apartment building would be along Canterbury Street and vehicle access would be from Canterbury Street, rather than over the brook to American Legion. Aponte says it would add native plantings to the existing vegetation along the brook.
Plot plan of the property, showing the brook and a buffer zone, by Goddard Consulting:

The proposal calls for 10 studios, 26 one-bedroom apartments, 7 two-bedroom units and 3 three-bedroom apartments. Some of the ground-floor units will have their own patios. Eight of the units, or 17%, would be rented as affordable.
Aponte, based on McCraw Street, off Belgrade Avenue, says it has a design philosophy that starts:
We grew tired of seeing beige and grey boxes going up that do not fit, built by those who do not care. There is too much of it. So for us, it’s not just about building, or designing, or developing. It’s about much more than that: it's about creating balance -- balance between stakeholders, neighborhoods, craftspeople, New England design and culture.
586-594 Canterbury St. filings and meeting and comment schedule.
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free kayaks all around
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 11:56am
and make them dredge and daylight the entire Canterbury Brook
So, it’s not just me who thinks that
By Frelmont
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 12:16pm
“We grew tired of seeing beige and grey boxes going up that do not fit,â€
Why is it so short?
By TBL
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 1:24pm
Why doesn't Boston build actual apartment buildings above 4 stories? How can we ever fix our housing crisis with these short little buildings? Like this was built over 100 years ago in the Back Bay. Did we lose the technology?
building codes
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 4:49pm
If they keep it to 4 stories, they're allowed to use cheaper construction, like wood framing.
That plus zoning and lawsuits gets us where we are today.
5 over 1 is allowed and I
By Anon2
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 10:30pm
5 over 1 is allowed and I think 5 over 2 - 5 wood over 1 concrete level.,,. Also city planning people mandates mansard roofs as they can step back the exterior facade and that it relates to the tiny itty bitty mansard roofs! That make no sense on a 30+ unit building
It's capped at 800ft. https:/
By Kobuu
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 7:23pm
It's capped at 800ft. https://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/2a60e7c4-517f-4731-8406-7dac51...
Roslindale isn't Downtown
By adamg
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 7:43pm
Maybe 4 stories is too short, but there's never been anything like your illustration in Roslindale. And 46 units (next to the 100-unit building that went up a couple of years ago, plus a couple of smaller buildings in that general area) is certainly better than what used to be there (parking lots, basically).
Design
By blues_lead
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 2:13pm
I have no issue with the design* in the rendering (I haven't looked in the filings for details yet), but isn't it ironic that the building shown is grey and beige?
*Whether I or anyone else personally likes or dislikes a design aesthetic is no reason to block it being built.
Build it
By emac
Tue, 02/18/2025 - 2:49pm
Build it! Aponte is good people, they’ve built other nice multi-family on Washington, Anawan and Baker in Rozzie-WR.Â
Oh I actually like this
By NoMoreBanks
Wed, 02/19/2025 - 10:27am
Oh I actually like this design! Somebody looked around at the neighborhood and deliberately incorporated features that the existing built landscape was already full of. I'm always on the "Build it" train but this one gets a hearty "Build it!!!" from me.
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