June
24
2016
WAREHAM – The Wareham Housing Authority has been contacted by the chief executive officer of the A.D. Makepeace Company of Wareham and asked to partner with the firm in developing a mixed-use development on Main Street that will include an affordable housing element.
June
23
2016
FRAMINGHAM — After receiving approval earlier this year to build a new entertainment complex on Flutie Pass, an Ohio developer wants to expand the project to include 136 new apartments and a parking deck on the upper floors.
June
23
2016
BOSTON --- Despite developer Terry Bruce’s assurances that she and her business partner, Mordechai Levin, are doing their best to make the apartments affordable to middle-class people, residents pushed for cheaper apartments and more affordable-housing units than the 25 percent proposed for the 44-unit proposal at 3353 Washington St.
June
23
2016
NEWTON --- Mayor Setti Warren today outlined an ambitious housing plan for the city that pinpointed seven sites for development and said the effort will not only provide diverse housing options, but will help preserve the characteristics and values Newton has embodied.
June
23
2016
GRAFTON --- About 30 residents of the North Grafton neighborhood known as Creeper Hill packed a selectmen's meeting to voice concerns over a developer's plan to apply to the town for a Ch. 40B permit so he can build 54 rental units on 2.5 acres. Residents argued the project would exacerbate traffic problems off of Route 140, lower property values, present a danger to children playing in the ball field and harm the semi-rural aesthetic character of the town.
June
22
2016
QUINCY --- With one city councilor saying "we don't want our children to leave town," several city councilors say Mayor Thomas Koch must commit to creating more affordable housing in Quincy Center before they’ll support his new plan for downtown revitalization. As it stands now, downtown developers are exempt from the city's inclusionary zoning bylaw that requires that 10 percent of the units in any new housing development be affordable. The Koch Administration worries that adding an affordability component could scare developers away.