Kitchen-supply warehouse store in Jamaica Plain wins OK to expand with apartments, restaurant and bakery

Rendering by O'Sullivan Architects

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Bob Harrington to expand his BMS Paper, 3390 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, with 82 apartments, a restaurant and a bakery.

Under his plans, Harrington will retain the existing two-story BMS building, but add a five-story extension to its rear and then a separate six-story building behind that, all on roughly two acres of land. The new restaurant and bakery would go into the extension connected to the BMS building - and would include a covered walkway from Washington Street.

Some 19 of the apartments will be rented as affordable - or 23% of the total number, even though Harrington only had to offer 13% of the units as affordable based on the city requirements when he first submitted his plans.

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