Dot Block, at 1211 Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester, is a rental community with 245 apartments in two buildings, six and four stories tall, completed in 2023 in Glover's Corner.
The project covers most of a nearly four-acre block bounded by Dorchester Avenue and Greenmount, Pleasant, and Hancock Streets, a stretch once lined with auto body shops, a car wash, and a gas station. After years of planning, Samuels & Associates and its partner Wintergold LLC broke ground in early 2021, and Stantec served as master planner, architect, and interior designer. Early plans called for big-box retail, but the final design favors small shops, neighborhood restaurants, and more than an acre of landscaped green space open to the public. A separate affordable apartment building on Hancock Street is planned as a later phase.
The first phase includes the six-story Dot North building and the four-story Pleasant building, with studios through three-bedroom apartments at a mix of market-rate and affordable levels. Apartments feature quartz counters, stainless appliances, and in-unit laundry.
Residents share a rooftop pool with lounge areas, grills, and outdoor dining, plus a fitness center, an indoor-outdoor community kitchen, resident lounges, coworking spaces, bike storage, a dog park, and a pet grooming room. Parking is in an underground garage, and Samuels manages the property.
Dot Block sits where Savin Hill, Meeting House Hill, Jones Hill, and Fields Corner meet. The Savin Hill Red Line station is about a third of a mile away, and the lobby shows real-time transit arrivals. Interstate 93 is close by, and Dorchester Avenue leads north toward DNA Lofts and South Boston.
Dot Block is the largest new residential project on this part of Dorchester Avenue.
Dot Block, at 1211 Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester, is a rental community with 245 apartments in two buildings, six and four stories tall, completed in 2023 in Glover's Corner.
The project covers most of a nearly four-acre block bounded by Dorchester Avenue and Greenmount, Pleasant, and Hancock Streets, a stretch once lined with auto body shops, a car wash, and a gas station. After years of planning, Samuels & Associates and its partner Wintergold LLC broke ground in early 2021, and Stantec served as master planner, architect, and interior designer. Early plans called for big-box retail, but the final design favors small shops, neighborhood restaurants, and more than an acre of landscaped green space open to the public. A separate affordable apartment building on Hancock Street is planned as a later phase.
The first phase includes the six-story Dot North building and the four-story Pleasant building, with studios through three-bedroom apartments at a mix of market-rate and affordable levels. Apartments feature quartz counters, stainless appliances, and in-unit laundry.
Residents share a rooftop pool with lounge areas, grills, and outdoor dining, plus a fitness center, an indoor-outdoor community kitchen, resident lounges, coworking spaces, bike storage, a dog park, and a pet grooming room. Parking is in an underground garage, and Samuels manages the property.
Dot Block sits where Savin Hill, Meeting House Hill, Jones Hill, and Fields Corner meet. The Savin Hill Red Line station is about a third of a mile away, and the lobby shows real-time transit arrivals. Interstate 93 is close by, and Dorchester Avenue leads north toward DNA Lofts and South Boston.
Dot Block is the largest new residential project on this part of Dorchester Avenue.
