The large mixed-use development at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and Hancock Street has a new name: DotBlock. The name lends itself to the development’s size, occupying nearly the entire block of Dorchester Avenue between Hancock Street and Greenmount Street.

Dorchester-based RODE Architects have released new renderings ahead of April, when they plan to make the rounds to local civic associations to pitch the development. Developers have also upped the initially planned housing units to 114, up from 92.

“We’re still in the early stages of permitting,” said RODE’s Eric Robinson. Developers hope to demolish the existing buildings on the parcel in late summer. Phase one, they hope, will begin in late fall with 64 units built at Greenmount and Pleasant Street. Phase two will yield the 50-unit apartment building on Hancock Street.

The first community presentation will take place at the Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association on April 6.

“We think it’s a game-changer,” said Catherine O’Neill, who is representing the developers in community meetings. “As Dorchester residents, we’re not only excited professionally, we’re excited personally.”