Housing Headlines

BOSTON --- Father Bill's & MainSpring, a nonprofit that serves homeless people in the Brockton and Quincy areas, will receive $249,987 from a new $1.7 million state job training program aimed at helping homeless people find work so that they will not have to continue to live in shelters.

NORTON --- In an effort to maintain the "country" look of its town, selectmen remain unhappy with a 188-unit, five-building 40B proposal that calls for some buildings to be over 50 feet high. The town initially got Thorndike Development and Campanelli Corp. to cut the height of its buildings back from 55 feet to 49 feet 10 inches but reporteldy remain upset with the town's Zoning Board of Appeals after learning that revised plans call for two buildings to be over 50 feet.

BOSTON --- Construction has begun on One Greenway, a 362-unit mixed-income development that borders Boston's Chinatown and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The project is a joint venture of New Boston Fund and the Asian CDC and will consist of two buildings bookending a third of an acre of open space. The 312-unit North building will feature 217 market rate rentals and 95 affordable rental apartments while the South building will feature 50 affordable condominums.

BOSTON, Dec. 12, 2013 - In continuation of the Patrick Administration's efforts to stimulate job creation and support long-term economic growth, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki today announced over $79 million for 33 MassWorks Infrastructure Program grants to support development throughout the Commonwealth.

BOSTON --- The BRA recently approved the city's first parking-free condominium building consisting of 175 units located at Lovejoy Wharf near North Station. Typically, the city requires developers of residential buildings in downtown neighborhoods to supply at least one parking space for every two homes constructed.

WORCESTER --- With two tentants occupying 280,000 square feet of office space and a 500-car parking garage on the way, the redevelopment of the city's Galleria Mall is off to a good start, although officials worry that further progress on the 13.6 acre downtown site may be hindered by a weak finance market, low rental rates and a lack of nighttime foot traffic.