Housing Headlines

LOWELL --- A long-dilapidated mill at a major gateway to the city would become an iconic building with dozens of new apartments and several restaurants, developer Sal Lupoli of Chelmsford told the Planning Board Monday in the first look the public got at the project.

GLOUCESTER --- Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken is looking to pump $1.5 million from the pending sale of the Fuller School property into the Gloucester Affordable Housing Trust, with an eye toward creating two affordable rental housing complexes — one geared to Gloucester’s seniors, the other for the city’s veterans. Fuller Mixed Use Ventures LLC, a partnership among the Cape Ann YMCA, Windover Construction and the Sam Park Companies, initially bid $5.1 million for the site but then agreed to add another $500,000 for the city’s Affordable Housing Trust to offset the Fuller group’s mixed-use proposal.

FALMOUTH — An application for a 104-unit affordable housing complex on Main Street is "not complete, accurate or reliable" and the project could be seen as retaliation for a failed hotel proposal on the same plot of land, according to a town review of a Westford developer's plan.

NEWTON --- Reacting to feedback from the city, a developer who is proposing to raze a string of historic buildings near the Newtonville train stop has come back with a new proposal of three five-story buildings and 165 apartments. The proposal is a one story shorter and a block wider than the first proposal.

WENHAM --- Haborlight Community Partners' bid to build 60 age-restricted units on a 3.5 acre site may soon be resolved as the state Superior Court is scheduled to review next month a challenge from 12 Wenham residents who have filed appeals to stop the project based on septic design flaws and the use of public funds to purchase private land.

SOMERVILLE --- City consultants say a citizens’ proposal to boost the required ercentage of affordable housing in new developments from 12.5 to 20 percent in Somerville would cost the city dearly if implemented.