{"id":12354,"date":"2026-08-10T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:23:20","slug":"developer-proposes-two-five-story-self-storage-buildings-in-bostons-readville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/developer-proposes-two-five-story-self-storage-buildings-in-bostons-readville\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Proposes Two Five-Story Self-Storage Buildings in Boston&#8217;s Readville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12355 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/readville.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"144\" \/>A developer has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to construct two five-story self-storage buildings on a 2.7-acre parcel at Hyde Park Avenue in Readville. Joe Federico Jr. purchased the site for $6.8 million in March 2025 after the prior owner, a residential developer, went bankrupt before breaking ground. The proposal requires full new city review and would proceed in two phases.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The project is a notable example of a failed residential site being redirected toward self-storage, a trend worth watching in supply-constrained urban markets where land is scarce and development timelines are long.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #f97033; color: #ffffff; padding: 8px 14px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px; line-height: 1.2;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universalhub.com\/2026\/two-five-story-self-storage-buildings-planned-readville-lot-where\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the Full Article<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Source<\/b>: Universal Hub<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A developer has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to construct two five-story self-storage buildings on a 2.7-acre parcel at Hyde Park Avenue in Readville. Joe Federico Jr. purchased the site for $6.8 million in March 2025 after the prior owner, a residential developer, went bankrupt before breaking ground. The proposal requires full new city review and would proceed in two phases. The project is a notable example of a failed residential site being redirected toward self-storage, a trend worth watching in supply-constrained urban markets where land is scarce&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,6,56],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12356,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/12356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}