Housing Headlines

WORCESTER --- By a unanimous vote, commissioners of the housing authority named Alex Corrales to succeed Ray Mariano as executive director when Mariano retires next summer. Corrales, 41, grew up in Worcester public housing, attended city schools and graduated from Syracuse University. Aside from a stint in Springfield, Corrales has worked for the WHA for 18 years and has served as Mariano's assistant executive director.

NEW BEDFORD --- After a federal audit of 15 public housing authorities revealed that 100 residents living in the city's public housing are over income, the executive director of the New Bedford Housing Authority said kicking people out for making more money after they've qualified for public housing will take away the incentive of trying, although he did indicate families who are well over the income limits should be moved so that more deserving families on the waiting list can be helped.

CAMBRIDGE --- San Francisco-based DivcoWest continued its recent Boston buying spree, paying a rumored $300 million for 42 acres near the Museum of Science. The land, previously co-owned by former Laker Magic Johnson, is expected to be developed into 3,000 apartments, office buildings and lab space. Divco has bought four office buildings in Boston and Kendall Square since 2013.

NANTUCKET --- The island is on the verge of seeing the construction of its first apartment complex as the planning board has granted Richmond Great Point Development a special permit to build 28 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments targeted to island's work force population. The apartments are part of Richmond's plans to develop 70 acres it bought for $30.6 million in August 2013 into a mixed-use neighborhood.

QUINCY --- Neighborworks of Southern Mass - a Quincy-based nonprofit - has purchased, will renovate and preserve the affordability of Kendrigan Place, a 78-unit apartment building in Quincy.

GLOUCESTER --- A proposal by St. John's Episcopal Church to build 30 apartments in its parking lot is already hitting a snag as the city's Community Preservation Committee is recommending to give the church only $5,000 toward a feasibility study, $10,000 less than the church was asking for.