Housing Headlines

BEDFORD --- The Baker Administration's Secretary of Veteran Services praised the Town of Bedford in his remarks at the grand opening of Bedford Green, a new 69-unit apartment building for homeless veterans on the campus of Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital. The new housing was developed by Peabody Properties, Windover Construction and the Affordable Housing Services Collaborative, with support from the state Dept. of Housing and Community Development and the state's Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

SOUTHBOROUGH — Leo Bartolini is no longer the chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals, but his stepping down didn't do much to simmer residents' complaints over the Residences at Park Central project, a 180-unit proposal near the junction of Rtes. 9 and 495. Residents are unhappy that the main access is on Flagg Road, a small access road that feeds into Rte. 9.

AGAWAM --- Opposition to a Springfield-based housing nonprofit's purchase of a 12.5 acre former farm continues to be swift as opponents have submitted a copy of an online petition to the City Council asking that city funds be used to purchase the property to prevent it from becoming an affordable housing development even though the housing nonprofit - HAPHousing- has yet to specify its plans for the property.

MEDWAY --- The Medway Affordable Housing Trust is putting the final touches on a request that is seeking developers to build 12 units of affordable housing on a site it bought from the America Legion Post with $180,000 Community Preservation Act funds back in 2014.

QUINCY --- The Zoning Board of Appeals' OK of a developer's plan to raze a two-family home, blast some ledge and build a six-story, 32-unit condominium development has been challenged by a neighbor in Land Court, who says the project is "wildly" out of scale with the neighborhood just outside Quincy center.

FRAMINGHAM --- The Planning Board has given the green light to Mill Creek Residential for the construction of 270 units within walking distance of Framingham's downtown commuter rail stop. To be called Modera Framingham, 10 percent of the units will be affordable. The Framingham development will add to Mill Creek’s portfolio of more than 1,400 apartment homes in six communities in Massachusetts, including Concord, Hopkinton and Natick.