Housing Headlines

WEYMOUTH --- The redevelopment of the sprawling South Weymouth Naval Air Station will have a new name as the Boston Business Journal is reporting that LStar Communities of Raleigh has changed the redevelopment's name from Southfield to Union Point in reference to the three towns - Weymouth, Rockland and Abington - that comprise the 1,500 acre site.

BROCKTON – Just after Brockton workers cleared out the longstanding homeless encampment known as Tent City, a local nonprofit met with neighborhood residents to talk about new plans for supportive housing in the former Catholic Charities building on North Main Street.

PLYMOUTH --- Despite much back-and-forth shouting about neighborhood impacts, the planning board voted 4-1 to approve Gus Diodato's plan to build eight affordable housing units in four duplexes on a five-acre site at the end of the Braley Road cul-de-sac.

SWAMPSCOTT --- Hoping to address its housing needs and gain more control over housing proposals, the town has approved a housing production plan that calls for more affordable and senior housing and suggests that the town pursue adoption of the Community Preservation Act as a local revenue source to move housing developments forward.

NEWBURY --- Residents packed a meeting room recently to protest a developer's plans to seek a Ch. 40B permit to build 24 for-sale homes - six affordable - on a 15.5 acre site at the end of Pearson Drive. The six affordable homes would list for between $180,000 to $224,000, with market-rate homes selling for $450,000 to $475,000.

LOWELL --- Residents at the 230-unit Perkins Park apartment complex have been told they have to move out within a year following the $61.5 million sale of the rehabilitated mill complex to UMass Lowell, which will convert the apartments into student dorms.