Complete with a green awning: Rendering by CambridgeSeven.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved plans to replace low-slung storefronts on Harvard Avenue at Cambridge Street in Allston with a new nine-story apartment building that will feature ground-floor space for the return of Great Scott and a revamped O'Brien's, topped by 139 apartments.

Great Scott closed in 2020 at the other end of Harvard Avenue, where the Taco Bell Cantina is now.

The proposal, by longtime Great Scott employee Carl Lavin, Paul Armstrong, who runs Boston entertainment Web site Vanyaland and developer Jordan Warshaw, who built the Raffles Hotel in the Back Bay, came after petition and fundraising drives by local Great Scott fans when its landlord booted it from its old location.

Warshaw, who said

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