Thursday, April 5, 2012
Gatehouse Group, Inc. is actively seeking community input as it hopes to work with the Medfield community in developing a 40B apartment complex off West Street.
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a three-part series that takes a closer look at The Gatehouse Group, Inc. and the 96-unit affordable housing complex it is proposing to develop off West Street. Part one focuses on who Gatehouse Group is and the history it has developing and operating affordable housing communities. Gatehouse Group, Inc. – the Mansfield-based company proposing the 40B development off West Street – told town officials last week its focus is to work with the Medfield community to address its affordable housing need by bringing a “high-quality” development to town. “We think there’s a real opportunity here for Medfield to leverage our proposal and obtain some real 40B benefits and protections,” McMillin said. McMillin …
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Parc at Medfield is a 96-unit "affordable rental community" being proposed for the West Street property near the former Potpourri building. The project is the second proposed for that site in the recent past.
This is the second part of a three-part series regarding this property. To read part one, click here. With an affordable housing rate of approximately 4.4 percent, the town of Medfield does not have the state-mandated minimum amount (10 percent) of affordable housing units in the community, which makes it easy for developers to use the affordable housing law – also known as Chapter “40B” – to get the permits needed to build affordable housing units. The latest proposal in Medfield, 'The Parc at Medfield,' calls for 96 units to be built on industrial land between Route 27 and West Street – a street that was intended to mark the boundary between industrial and residential zones. “I would clearly prefer that any developer, seeking to build …
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Board of Appeals for Zoning denied an application for extension for an affordable housing project off West Street, saying the developer, who originally filed in 2008 and was issued an extension in 2011, no longer has control of the site since the town
This is the first in a three-part series related to the development site off West Street near the former Potpourri building. Two developers cannot have control of the same site at the same time – that was the basis on which the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals denied the latest extension for a project known as "Medfield Woods," a proposed townhouse condominium development off West Street. In 2008, a permit was issued by the Board of Appeals for Zoning to West Street Development LLC to build 35 two- and three-bedroom condos near the former Potpourri building. The permit was granted for the standard three years, then extended for one more year in 2011 to Medfield North Meadows LLC when they asked for a two-year extension after no activity on …
