Housing Headlines

CAMBRIDGE --- Beloved bowling alley Lanes and Games will be open for approximately one more year before closing for good as Criterion Development Partners of Waltham is looking to purchase the property neaer Alewife Station from the Martignetti family so it can build 325 apartments.

NATICK --- In a special Sunday story, reporter Brian Benson takes a look at the pros and cons of tearing down and replacing modestly priced homes in MetroWest with newer more expensive versions, with a particular focus on Natick which as issued more than 25 permits for demolition in less than two years.

HYANNIS --- With a month remaining, about 150 people have signed up for the housing lottery for the second phase of Village Green Apartments in Hyannis. The 60-day application period for the lottery began on Aug. 1 and continues until Sept. 30. Developed by Dakota Partners with financing from MHP, the second phase of Village Green Apartments will contain 60 units total — 42 two-bedrooms, 14 one-bedrooms and four three-bedrooms — the same as the first phase.

WORCESTER — After striking out with the high bidder of $131,000 for a vacant May Street apartment building, the city is now selling it to the next highest bidder at a price ($48,000) that is not only less but also well below its assessed valuation o $580,700.

DORCHESTER --- Milton-based Trinity Green Investments is proposing a 52-unit studio apartment building in Dorchester that would house older homeless tenants and be staffed and managed by Boston’s Pine Street Inn.

SOMERVILLE --- The Globe's Matt Rocheleau takes a look at recent headlines saying only 22 of Somerville's 11,800 residential lots conform to current zoning and how the city is trying to revamp its zoning code "to allow for the kind of development Somerville and our region desperately needs."