Housing Headlines

PLYMOUTH --- Delayed for several years due to abutter appeals that were unsuccessful, Sawmill Development is moving forward with its plans to use a Ch. 40B comprehensive permit to build 200 units (50 affordable) on land in the Plymouth village known as Manomet.

AMHERST --- Local officials have applied to the town's Community Preservation Act advisory committee for $750,000 and they hope that these funds will be used in combination with other public and private funding sources to preserve 65 affordable rental apartments at two different apartment builindgs.

BOSTON --- Father Bill's & MainSpring, a nonprofit that serves homeless people in the Brockton and Quincy areas, will receive $249,987 from a new $1.7 million state job training program aimed at helping homeless people find work so that they will not have to continue to live in shelters.

NORTON --- In an effort to maintain the "country" look of its town, selectmen remain unhappy with a 188-unit, five-building 40B proposal that calls for some buildings to be over 50 feet high. The town initially got Thorndike Development and Campanelli Corp. to cut the height of its buildings back from 55 feet to 49 feet 10 inches but reporteldy remain upset with the town's Zoning Board of Appeals after learning that revised plans call for two buildings to be over 50 feet.

BOSTON, Dec. 12, 2013 - In continuation of the Patrick Administration's efforts to stimulate job creation and support long-term economic growth, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki today announced over $79 million for 33 MassWorks Infrastructure Program grants to support development throughout the Commonwealth.

BOSTON --- Construction has begun on One Greenway, a 362-unit mixed-income development that borders Boston's Chinatown and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The project is a joint venture of New Boston Fund and the Asian CDC and will consist of two buildings bookending a third of an acre of open space. The 312-unit North building will feature 217 market rate rentals and 95 affordable rental apartments while the South building will feature 50 affordable condominums.