The Massachusetts Municipal Association supports Gov. Maura Healey’s policy-heavy, $4 billion housing bond bill, but there are pockets of concern among local leaders as the state deploys other carrots and sticks to generate more construction.
Leaders in Watertown, Needham and elsewhere are looking to go above and beyond the call of the MBTA Communities law even as those in other towns are making headlines with their resistance.
It’s become increasingly clear that the MBTA Communities housing law is no silver bullet. So why not make new housing a profit center for towns and suburbs, rather than a perceived drag?
The new owner of a Chelmsford mill complex plans to add new food and beverage tenants after acquiring the three-building property for $14.85 million.
In response to some local officials’ blatantly NIMBY reactions to the MBTA Communities zoning reform, the state is cutting the budgets of their communities’ public housing authorities.
Aided by a town grant to lure amenities to its commercial district, Pressed Cafe is committing to a new location in Chelmsford.
Officials want to attract more life science and advanced manufacturing firms to the Route 3 North area to shore up tax bases, but developers are pushing housing.
A Chelmsford flex portfolio occupied by such tenants as Endeavor Robotics and Thermo Fisher Scientific has been sold for $15.75 million to a Springfield investor.
A 34-acre Chelmsford parcel once used as University of Massachusetts Lowell’s West Campus has sold at auction for $3.24 million.
Well-situated Route 128 communities such as Burlington, Needham and Waltham have resuscitated moribund office parks with multifamily housing, restaurants and retail, enhancing their appeal to corporate employers tempted by downtown options. Can towns along the Interstate 495 belt duplicate their success?
A 34-acre Chelmsford property that formerly housed the UMass-Lowell west campus goes to auction on April 5.
Chelmsford’s move two years ago to rezone more than 600 acres of commercial property to allow more varied uses – in an attempt to adapt to changing real estate times and to keep its property tax rolls up – is already paying big dividends.
Digital Federal Credit Union, or DCU, has opened its new operations center in Chelmsford. The 129,000-square-foot office building is located at 297 Billerica Rd.
Chelmsford isn’t the only Boston suburb struggling to fill vacancies in aging office buildings, but this Merrimack Valley community of 34,000 has been more responsive than most in positioning commercial properties for quick and flexible redevelopment.
Having already added more than 70,000 new customers in 2017, Marlborough-based Digital Federal Credit Union is now looking to bulk up its workforce.
Chelmsford, a town of 32,000 people just south of the New Hampshire border, wants to rejuvenate a business corridor and the Legislature appears poised to help out by granting 10 additional liquor licenses.
Endeavor Robotics has leased 35,000 square feet at 19 Alpha Road in Chelmsford.
Hudson-based Calare Properties has acquired 19 and 21 Alpha Road in Chelmsford for $8.9 million.
