Housing Headlines

BOSTON --- Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse joined Gov. Charlie Baker to testify on behalf of the governor's economic development bill. Morse testified on the impact of previous state support from the MassWorks program, which includes funds for utility work in the pending revitalization of Lyman Terrace public housing.

WORCESTER - With affordable housing restrictions set to expire by 2020 for 2,618 units at 18 privately owned properties throughout the city, discussions have begun with the property owners to try to preserve their affordable housing status. (Worcester Telegram).

EASTHAM --- Selectman will soon put out another proposal hoping to attract a developer who would build up to 132 units of affordable rental housing on 11.2 acres the town bought 15 years ago. (Cape Cod Times).

WORCESTER --- After concluding that converting the former Notre Dame church into a hotel or a performing arts center would prove too costly, developers of the downtown $565 million mixed-use CitySquare project say they will ask the city if they can demolish the 87-year-old church, once the grandest of the four French Canadian churches in the city.

GLOUCESTER --- Gloucester’s mayor and the head of the American Legion Post are asking that any permit allowing for the former Cameron House to be turned into a 30-unit affordable housing development include stipulations that 70 percent of the units be set aside for city residents or veterans.

HINGHAM --- Upscale Hingham is attracting significant interest from developers and renewed resident concerns about the impacts of new housing, namely Avalon Bay's hopes to build 190 apartments near its 235-unit 2008 project and Alliance Residential of Phoenix' interest in building apartments on the old Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance building site.