May
27
2010
BELMONT --- The O'Neill Properties Group recently won approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection to build 299 mixed-income residential units on land surrounded by the 120-acre Alewife Brook Reservation. Environmental activists from Belmont and neighboring Cambridge have resisted the project because the land it would be built on houses an unusual silver maple forest and is surrounded by wetlands. There is no word on when construction would begin.