Housing Headlines

NEWTON --- Cabot, Cabot and Forbes has offered the City of Newton over $2 million dollars to drop litigation against its plan to build a four-story, mixed-use 334-unit rental apartment complex at its office park on Wells Ave. near Rt. 128 and the Needham line. The CCF offer includes $1 million to redesign an intersection near the project and $1 million for the city to spend on affordable housing.

STOUGHTON --- In May, residents will be asked at town meeting to OK an amendment in the zoning laws that would allow Calmar Enterprises of Buffalo to build a 128-unit senior housing complex on land that is zoned mostly for commercial.

BEVERLY --- Windover Construction has submitted plans to build a five-story mixed-use development on Rantoul St. with businesses on the ground floor and 72 units of housing on the upper floors. The site is within walking distance of the MBTA stop.

FAIRHAVEN --- The only bidder on the town's request for proposals for the vacant Oxford School has indicated that his major concern is community opposition to his plan to buy the property for $325,000 and turn it into a 50-unit affordable housing development.

SOMERVILLE --- A spokesman for a development company that plans to build 1,000 units of housing at Assembly Square by 2017 said the number of units could be reduced by nearly half if the city passes a zoning law that ups the inclusionary zoning requirement for that area from 12.5 to 20 percent.

WORCESTER --- Capital Group Properties has agreed to work with the town on a Local Initiative Program application that will yield a mixed-use project that will include 150 apartments for seniors, commercial space and some single-family residential homes.