Housing Headlines

BREWSTER --- Once recognized by the Massachusetts Housing Partnership with a Housing Hero Award for its outstanding history producing apartments and homes, Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod celebrated another milestone recently, opening Paul Hush Way, a five-home affordable development.

PROVINCETOWN --- Provincetown's quest to buy a bankrupt 26-unit timeshare and turn it into affordable housing took another step forward this week as a judge in bankruptcy court ordered for the sale to commence. Provincetown has agreed to buy the property for $8.1 million but had to go through years of delays as the 1,000-person ownership structure was untangled at the registry of deeds.

TRURO --- With 29 of its 2,089 single-family homes over 5,000 square feet and 60 percent of them built since 2005, the Truro Planning Board is considering adopting a bylaw that would limit house sizes to 3,600 square feet for the minimum lot size of .775 acres in its residential district.

HANOVER --- During a community meeting held inside the the former JC Penney store, residents wondered about the municipal impacts of a $250 million plan to demolish the enclosed Hanover Mall and redevelop it with an open-air complex that would combine retail, entertainment and 297 apartments marketed to empty-nesters and young professionals.

FALMOUTH --- Plans to turn the former Nautilus Motor Inn into an independent senior living complex are alive again, as new owner Mark Bogosian has asked the Cape Cod Commission to approve a slightly altered development plan that the commission OK'd for the previous owner back in 2008. Bogosian's main change is to construct 43 apartments in seven buildings rather than one large building, which the original plan proposed.

BILLERICA --- Hawthorn Retirement Group is proposing to redevelop the former Rangeway golf location into 151 apartments for the elderly. The proposal is the latest of several housing developments in town, which include the 384-unit mixed-income Aspen Regency Apartments, the 179-unit mixed-income Alpine Village apartments and a 200-unit "friendly 40B" by Alliance Residential at the corner of the Middlesex Turnpike and Lexington Road.