Housing Headlines

LEOMINSTER --- Construction work has begun on the adaptive reuse of a historic Whiting paper mill into 40 affordable rental homes. Developed by the Twin Cities CDC and funded with federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits, the project has created over 100 jobs, according to the construction company hired to do the work.

NATICK --- The state has agreed to forgive its $350,000 loan to Natick Housing Authority so it could over operataing deficits, and has asked the housing authority to hire a management consultant to review its operations.

SOUTHBOROUGH - Town officials are unhappy that a housing financing agency has given its support to 140 apartments of proposed affordable housing on Rte. 9, saying they never received the full plans from the developer.

HARVARD --- Harvard selectmen have asked the quasi-public agency MassDevelopment to engage in local dialogue over a 246-unit apartment complex proposal planned for the decommissioned Fort Devens Army base.

HARVARD --- Foreclosure auctions scheduled for Dec. 8 and 15 at The Inn and Great Elms have been postponed until January, according to William Marshall, president of the foreclosing lender, North Middlesex Savings Bank.

FALL RIVER --- Acting before a Dec. 9 deadline that would've returned decision-making powerto the state, the city council has approved plans to demolish the 100-unit Watuppa Heights public housing project and redevelop the 9.5 acre site with mixed-income apartments and homes. Fall River's plan must now be approved by the state.