The family that owns Down Home Delivery & Catering at 2 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester’s Four Corners has filed plans to replace their building with a seven-story apartment building – with 2,400 square feet of ground-floor space for their restaurant to move back into.
The Webster family’s proposed 22-unit building would be one story taller than typical modern Boston apartment buildings because rather than the typical construction of a steel-and-concrete “podium” topped by five floors made of wood beams, the entire structure will be built out of cross-laminated timber, a strong wood product that means fewer carbon emissions than from creating steel and concrete, according to the family’s filing with the Boston Planning Department.
The building would have five one-bedroom apartments, ten one-bedroom apartments with dens and seven two-bedroom units. Four of the apartments would be rented as affordable…