Auburn, Fitchburg, Southbridge, Worcester housing projects win share of $106M in state funding
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A vacant mill building at 5-15 Case St. in Southbridge, part of the Southbridge Innovation Center off East Main Street, is slated to be converted into new housing.
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A rendering of the planned renovation of the Southbridge Innovation Center
Proposed housing developments in Auburn, Fitchburg, Southbridge and Worcester have received a share of $106 million in state funding announced Wednesday to help support the creation of new affordable housing.
Four Central Massachusetts projects have received funds:
- A 60-unit development planned for the former Julia Bancroft School in Auburn off Oxford Street North, just north of the intersection with Rochdale Street. The Town of Auburn has selected the developer Pennrose to redevelop the former school building, with 45 of the 60 units set aside for seniors earning less than 60% of the area median income.
- A 48-unit development called Grand Street Common being planned in part by the nonprofit Main South Community Development Corp. in Worcester, on Grand Street across from the Lofts at Loomworks apartment building. All but two of the planned units will be restricted for households earning less than 60% of the area median income. The City of Worcester will provide funding in support of the project.
- A 48-unit redevelopment of a vacant mill building on Case Street in Southbridge part of the Southbridge Innovation Center, an industrial and commercial complex off East Main Street at Lensdale Pond. Each unit in the project, named Southbridge Mills, will be restricted for households earning less than 60% of the area median income.
- A 29-unit redevelopment of residential buildings in Fitchburg. Called the Cleghorn Preservation Project, the development will include 29 fully renovated units, all but three of which will be restricted to households earning less than 60% of the area median income.
All financing is now secured for Grand Street Common, and construction could start in December, said Steve Teasdale, the executive director of the Main South Community Development Corp. Construction would pick up in earnest next spring and be complete by the spring of 2022.
The new project is a continuation of the community development corporation's work to improve quality of life in Main South, Teasdale said, including through providing affordable places to live.
Those four projects are part of a combined 28 projects with a planned total of 2,100 affordable units, and 2,400 units in total. The $106 million in state funding from the Department of Housing and Community Development is being supplemented by another $53 million in state and federal tax credits.
Other funded projects are in Beverly, Boston, Brewster, Bridgewater, Brockton, Chelsea, Concord, Fairhaven, Falmouth, Holbrook, Lawrence, Springfield, Sunderland and Tisbury.
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