Housing Headlines

DORCHESTER --- For the past few years, efforts by the City of Boston to stabilize properties on Hendry St. have been threatened by a house at the end of the street. Following the arrest of some 30 individuals for gang and drug activity on Hendry and nearby Woodward St., Dorchester Reporter correspondent Adam Gaffin uses police reports to detail what was going on at 37 Hendry St.

WAREHAM --- A local developer who is representing the nonprofit Community Development & Mortgage Alliance Corp. has proposed to turn the notorious White Pines Motel site into 24 units of affordable housing. Developer Bob Minichielli told the town's affordable housing trust that the project would feature 12 one-bedroom and 12 two-bedroom apartments. White Pines Motel was the scene of a stabbing last year in which two men were killed. After this incident, the property was foreclosed after authorities discovered that the owner John D'Italia did not have a valid license to operate and owed $65,000 in taxes.

SOUTHBOROUGH --- Developer William Depietri has told the town of his plan to build 180 condominiums, a quarter of which would be affordable under income guidelines, near the Red Roof Inn off Rte. 9 near the junction of Rte. 495. In a letter to the town, Depietri said he would by asking the town to grant him a Ch. 40B comprehensive permit to build The Residences at Park Centra, which would consist of 120 two-bedroom and 60 one-bedroom condos in five buildings.

BRIGHTON --- The Sebastian Mariscal Studio recently filed a proposal with the city to construct a new, five-story apartment building with ground-floor retail space at the corner of North Beacon and Everett streets. The building would contain 44 units with nine studios, 15 one-bedroom units, 17 two-bedroom units and three three-bedroom units. Six of the 44 units will be designated as affordable. The developer hopes to start construction in early 2014.

SUNDERLAND --- The state's Supreme Judicial Court has has OK'd a Chapter 40B permit, allowing developers Paul D. Boudreau of South Hadley and Gerard N. Aubrey of Holyoke to proceed with Sugarbush Meadow, a 150-unit apartment building they first brought before the town back in 2006.

MARLBOROUGH --- Back in December, the city's Zoning Board of Appeals OK'd by a 3-2 vote a controversial Ch. 40B rental housing development. The project, dubbed Brookview Village and proposed by the Gutierrez Co. will bring in 225 units to a parcel on Ames Street off Rte. 20 on the western side of the city. The city council voted to oppose the plan this summer but other city officials like Mayor Arthur Vigeant have supported the project, saying it will provide much-needed housing opportunities for employees at nearby companies and others that plan to move to the city like TJX Companies and Boston Scientific.