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By: John Osborn
The Massachusetts Senate was expected to vote Thursday evening on its version of Gov. Maura Healey's $425 million Mass Wins economic development bond bill, after declining to revive a proposal that would have bypassed Harvard, Ayer, and Shirley's control over Devens zoning decisions, and earmarking $5 million to redevelop Vicksburg Square, the boarded-up former Army barracks complex at Devens.
By: John Osborn
Senate earmarks $5 million for Vicksburg Square housing, rejects bid to bypass super town meeting
By: John Osborn
MassDevelopment on Wednesday presented preliminary findings from a long-awaited building conditions assessment of the Innovation and Technology Center (ITC) district, putting the cost to stabilize and remove hazardous materials from its most significant vacant structures at nearly $44 million.
MassDevelopment announced Thursday that Elite Home Builders, working with the neighborhood's original developer, NOW Communities, has closed on the financing needed to build a 46-unit apartment building at Emerson Green.
By: John Osborn
State Sen. Jamie Eldridge got an earful from Devens residents this month.
By: John Osborn
MassDevelopment's presentation to the Devens Committee last week confirmed what officials had signaled for months: Stabilizing and clearing hazardous materials from eight vacant buildings in the Innovation and Technology Center district will cost close to $44 million. Demolishing them instead would run about $24.4 million.
By: John Osborn
A team of 16 volunteers is going street by street across Devens this summer, clipboards in hand, with a pitch that covers three separate registrations at once: signing up for Devens Connect, MassDevelopment's voter rolls, and the voter rolls of Ayer, Harvard, or Shirley.
By: John Osborn
MassDevelopment announced last week that Elite Home Builders has secured the financing needed to build a 46-unit apartment building at Emerson Green, after NOW Communities, the community's designated developer, transferred development rights for the site to an Elite affiliate.
Bromfield is home to six varsity teams this fall: boys and girls soccer, field hockey, boys and girls cross-country, and boys golf.
State Sen. John Cronin pledged his support last week for housing at Vicksburg Square once MassDevelopment brings forward a proposal to permit it.
