A self-storage firm says it needs to transform a hulking six-story records-storage warehouse at 120-134 Hampden St. right into a hulking six-story self-storage complicated that would come with a climate-controlled place for individuals to retailer wine till they’re able to promote or drink it.
Bahlmann Capital Group of Brookline says, in a letter of intent filed with the Boston Planning Division, that along with the brand new stuff-and-wine self storage, it might put up a smaller, two-story constructing on what’s now a small paved space on the nook of Hampden Road and Norfolk Avenue, with retail area on the primary flooring and workplace area on the second. This, the corporate says, “would higher activate the road nook.”
This proposal will want each Planning Division and Zoning Board of Enchantment approval as a result of the change of use applies to what’s thought of a “massive” undertaking, on this case, 66,993 sq. toes within the current constructing, and since whereas normal “warehousing” is an allowed use beneath the positioning’s zoning, zoning-board OK is required for the change to the extra particular self-storage sort of warehousing.
The proposed 434-square-foot wine room wouldn’t be Boston’s first wine self-storage facility. A former wine-and-cheese store at 1356 Commonwealth Avenue in Allston now consists of area utilized by Wine Storage of Boston, with charges beginning at $109 a month for a locker that may maintain 36 circumstances of wine.
Worldwide Wine Vault, with places in Framingham and Stoughton, gives comparable service, in addition to a particular “wine emergency quantity” for after-hours wine crises.
