Housing Headlines

WORCESTER --- A group behind the effort to get Worcester to vote on whether to adopt the Community Preservation Act has decided not to gather the more than 5,000 signatures necessary to get the measure on the ballot this year. In a written statement, Yes For A Better Worcester criticized an earlier vote by the city council not to put CPA on the ballot, thus triggering the short-lived effort to get the measure on the ballot via citizen's petition. The group said it would restart its effort next year.

LEE --- Plans for one of the town's old paper mills continue to take shape as developer Jeff Cohen revealed at a recent planning board meeting revised plans for a $60 million redevelopment of the Eagle Mill into a mixed-use development with 52 affordable apartments, 28 market-rate apartments and a hotel. In the 1880s, the town had 25 paper mills but the number had shrunk to four when the Eagle Mill closed in 2008. Today, there is only one paper-based company operating in Lee.

WEYMOUTH --- A developer within the South Weymouth Naval Air Station redevelopment has pledged to restore damage wetlands after it was found that some 1,400 squre feet of wetlands were filled in behind Dorset Park, a cluster of 26 single-family homes within the Union Point development.

PLYMOUTH --- Gov. Charlie Baker is expected to be on hand on Aug. 21 for a groundbreaking ceremony for Harborwalk Apartments, a 300-unit apartment complex being built on 11 acres at the Cordage Park commerce center, which will be renamed Plymouth Station. Co-developed by Jim Goldenberg and Joseph Jannetty, Harborwalk is expected to have additional phases, as 400 more apartments are possible on another part of the property.

LEXINGTON --- Residents packed a recent selectmen's meeting to voice their concerns about the impact of National Development's plan to build senior housing on two parcels that it would purchase from Belmont Country Club. National Development has proposed to build 40 assisted living and 116 independent senior living units on a 13 acre lot and a 48-unit memory care facility on a four-acre lot.

WORCESTER --- Eight months after the 235-year-old hardware store closed its doors for good, the historic Elwood Adams building in downtown Worcester has been sold to BradyMac Capital. The Hingham-based developer company plans to turn use historic tax credits to turn the building into 12 to 15 upper-story apartments and ground-floor commercial space.